Jordan Morris is a graphic designer and creative director in Kansas City, Missouri. In this, her debut children's book, she draws from experience she had long ago when she fell off a trampoline and broke her arm.

Lulu, the girl in the story, fell out of a tree, and now her leg is in a bright yellow cast. At first she lives up the experience, receiving sympathy cards, balloons, flowers, and even a matching cast for her stuffed bear. With a spirit of adventure and a lot of help, she learns how to do familiar things in new ways, like taking a bath with her cast perched on the sink rim and getting pulled to school in a wagon powered by friends. All her classmates sign her cast, of course, and they want to know "every detail: the accident, the ambulance, the X-ray, the flavor of hospital ice cream (strawberry)."

Naturally, this exciting bubble does not last. Before long, we see a grumpy, bored Lulu staring out her window and, worse still, unable to keep herself from scratching at her "itchy and twitchy" leg — or as close as she can get around the cast.

And it turns out that having the cast removed doesn't do wonders for her mood. Surprised at how skinny her leg looks and how vulnerable she feels, Lulu worries that something bad will happen again.

Interwoven with this story is one told entirely in pictures. Starting just inside the cover, we see Lulu's grandpa putting a card for her in the mailbox. But as the mail carrier tosses it into the bin, it totters on the edge, falls out, gets stepped on and stuck to someone's shoe, and from there gets picked up by a gust of wind, swept up with trash, rescued by raccoons, and so forth. As we turn the books' pages, we look forward to finding out what will happen to this note — in its envelope that's the same bright yellow as Lulu's cast — just like we want to know how Lulu will manage.

The two story threads begin to coalesce when Lulu's Grandpa visits her, helping her find both patience and courage. He understands that recovery takes time. And at the end, we get a delightful surprise — in both the story and the actual design of the book — when Grandpa's mysteriously wayward note finally reaches Lulu.

Children ages four to eight will enjoy this book as a reflection of their own experiences with injury, illness, and other setbacks. It can also deepen their empathy toward others who've suffered mishaps and face prolonged recoveries.