The relating of a fable is, at best, a difficult task. When it is attempted with a Y.A. audience in mind, it is even more difficult. Elizabeth Swados has accomplished the impossible. She has managed to instill in this fable [The Girl With the Incredible Feeling], the story of a girl who was different and found that when she listened to a drummer other than her own she lost her own individuality and sense of being…. It is meant to be a short read and a long discussion. Excellent for the beginning of a discussion on "being" and "to thine own self be true". Forget about the format of the children's book, which it is, teenagers will hear about this by word of mouth and read it anyway. (p. 32).