But it’s Sunny’s relationship with Dale that is of primary resonance here,and the family drama is so, so good, and resolved hopefully but honestly. A new,older girl moves in next door, providing Sunny with the welcome experience ofa supportive big sister-and lessons in flag-swinging (for the marching band) toboot. Both author and illustrator areadept at shifting the mood quickly, as when Sunny and her mother are laughingover something cute the baby’s done, and Mom asks Sunny to call Dale to dinner.Three wordless panels ensue to convey all the whoopses of that moment. The subject is manifestly serious, and theHolms respect just how dark the story can get while maintaining its mainstreamappeal as a middle-grade graphic-novel comedy. She beginsmiddle school with some trepidation, and she faces it without the (complicated)presence of her troubled older brother Dale, who has been sent away to militaryschool in hopes he can be helped. 9/15), Sunny is now back home in Pennsylvania. roger suttonĪfter her visit to Gramps’s surprisingly lively retirement community in Florida( Sunny Side Up, rev. MatthewHolm’s evocation of the exact kid-culture landmarks of the fall of 1976 andspring of 1977 (“Love Will Keep Us Together,” Brady Bunch reruns) will be as madeleines to a certain demographic. After her visit to Gramps’s surprisingly lively retirement community in Florida( Sunny Side Up, rev.
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