As a child, nothing terrified me more than being lost. My parents found this hilarious. Every time we went on a road trip, my dad would wait a few hours and then start moaning that we had somehow gotten lost. "We're looost! We're looost!" he would wail, and in the backseat I would immediately start ...
a fun read. the transitions aren't all that good but i give him a pass because he's mark twain, and because if he's writing for kids, they won't care. not as racist as I expected, either. my favorite parts are all the superstitions and old wive's tales the kids believe in and follow.
"There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure."Boys. They do all sorts of weird things, no?
My dad read this book to me many many years ago. I just picked up a vintage copy of it and I'm planning on reading it again. Tom Sawyer has always been one of my favorite characters. He always means well, but he has to do everything with a dramatic flourish which ususally gets him in a lot of tro...
It had been some time since I'd read this, and I'm fixing to read a new novel about Huck Finn's Pap, so I thought it best to repair to the source material first. Being the mother of a boy has certainly changed my reaction to this particular book. What struck me as hilarious fiction once now rings tr...
Este fue el primer libro que leí en mi vida. Antes me limitaba a los cuentos de Tío Conejo o a las versiones más infantiles de Blancanieves y la Cenicienta. Aún recuerdo claramente cuando mi papá me dio este libro y me dijo que si lograba leerlo completo me daría un regalo. Tenía 10 años y amaba los...
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