Mitten in der Nacht verschwand Annie. Anstrengungen der Suchtrupps waren vergeblich. Die Familie befürchtete das Schlimmste. Plötzlich war die 8-Jährige wieder da. Und nur ihrem Bruder Joe fiel auf, wie stark sich das kleine Mädchen verändert hat ... „Lieblingskind“ ist ein interessanter, vielschich...
Mit einem schrecklichen Ereignis am Jahrmarkt hat in Eddies Leben das Grauen begonnen. An diesem Tag hat er zum ersten Mal den Kreidemann getroffen und ein hinterhältiges Spiel in Gang gesetzt. Eddie dachte, es sei mit dem Auffinden der Mädchenleiche im Wald vorbei. Doch 30 Jahre später treffen bei ...
Mit einem unerwarteten Brief wird ein 30 Jahre zurückliegender Mordfall plötzlich wieder aktuell. Im Sommer 1986 entdeckten der 12-jährige Eddie und seine vier Freunde eine zerstückelte Leiche. Weitere Unfälle und Tragödien erschüttern die englische Kleinstadt in dieser Zeit. Erst im Jahr 2016 erfah...
It's amazing how seriously flawed so-called children's classics can be. The Secret Garden, which seems fairly universally beloved in Britain, sees the spoiled and listless Mary Lennox orphaned in India by cholera, and brought to her uncle's rambling Victorian manor on the Yorkshire moors. She hear...
This was something that was a favorite of mine as a child, so it was a nice nostalgic trip re-reading it as an adult. I'm not generally a fan of poetry, but I enjoyed this quite a bit. The rhymes are pretty and I probably shouldn't really try to talk about poetry, because I have nothing to say on ...
I have only really gotten to know this book as an adult and I have to say that for me sometimes just thinking about it helps my day. We all have days when we get frustrated with life. Or parts of life that seem out of control, jobs that seem hard, days when if there is just one more thing that get...
The illustrations in this 100th anniversary edition are lovely.I don't know why I didn't read this as a child. It's a feel-good book, and I liked it, even if they was a slight hint of moralizing in the end.
I grew up very familiar with the Shirley Temple movie version of the story and then later, the 1995 movie version and adored both. For many years I've wanted to actually read the book itself though. I have a beautiful hard cover of the book with beautiful color illustrations, but because of it's siz...
Having been quite familiar with The Secret Garden growing up, I was a bit surprised that I was unfamiliar with other stories by Frances Hodgson Burnett, especially A Little Princess. True to the style and magic I remember so well, FHB delivers another enchanting childhood story filled with wonderf...
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