Adorable, yet bittersweet tale of a young girl who doesn't fit because of her name "Cerise", her weight, being motherless. Lacombe succeeded in showing the loneliness and difference of Cerise through amazing illustrations the details like the books chosen to fill Cerise's library, her over sized pullover everything built up to Cerise finding the strength to open herself up and find friendship and inner strength she didn't know she had.