I kept expecting the actual wolves to be a bigger part, like at some point all the grown-ups would be eaten by wolves and the children would be left alone. It felt like reading a Sherlock Holmes story a lot of the time (in a good way). I just wanted it to be a lot darker than it ended up being.
“It was dusk–winter dusk. Snow lay white and shining over the pleated hills, and icicles hung from the forest trees. Snow lay piled on the dark road across Willoughby Wold, but from dawn men had been clearing it with brooms and shovels. There were hundreds of them at work, wrapped in sacking because...
I love this book. The start of a great series.So I've picked this for my staff pick on heroes and I want to say that as far as heroes go "It takes a Village" because our two girls--Bonnie & Sylvia--get help in getting away from the baddies in the story (and there are lots of baddies) from all sides...
3.5, I think - only because I thought I remembered loving this as a child (and I may well have) but after re-reading I still didn't recall a thing from the actual story - I think the Dido books later in the series were the ones that really captured my love. Actually I'm not even sure if I ever did r...
I had this book on tape as a kid, and I listened to it about a million times. I loved it so much.Also, it definitely was the book which began my love of any book with a cross-dressing heroine.
It's fascinating how much children's lit has changed over the course of the past century or so, and reading this book for the first time 50 years after it was originally published is an interesting example. First of all, though, I want to say that the best thing about this is the wolves: There's n...
This was very exciting and enjoyable. Two little girls are left in the care of their heretofore unknown distant cousin-turned-governess, and then their lives start going way downhill in quality. Mistreated, abused, starved, locked up and finally sent to an even more cruel orphanage/school. I thought...
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