Bera-Bera from Kira-Kira

"Bera-Bera was my favorite stuffed animal, which my mother had packed in a box. Bera-Bera talked too much, laughed too loudly, and sometimes sassed me, but I still loved him."

I love it when I'm reading a book that's supposed to be "for kids" and I come across an ingenious line like this. I feel like my life's work of teaching the english is validated. This I can point to and say, "See, this is what I mean. Out of nowhere, good words."