Ellie And The Harpmaker is a pleasure book written by Hazel Prior. Set in rural England Ellie is exploring a neighborhood near her home when she comes upon a sign indicating a harpmaker. She enters the yard and meets a man named Dan. Dan has 32 harps already made and he shows them to Ellie. Because Ellie is wearing red socks he gives her a beautiful red harp made from cherry wood. She is interested in the harp but the gift is too extravagant. This is our first clue that Dan may be on the autism spectrum. Dan insists that she take it so she does. When she gets home and tells her husband, Clive, what happened he insists she return the harp to the harpmaker. Elsie does this and Dan says he will not sell it to anyone else, that the harp is hers, and that she can come and play her harp whenever she wants to. I don't want to give away the ending but the interactions between Ellie and Dan change both of them in a good way. This was a lovely story about two kind people.
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