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Title: The Lost Flower Children by Janet Taylor Lisle, Satomi Ichikawa ISBN: 0-698-11880-4 Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 April, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.6 (5 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: 3 Cheers!
Comment: In The Lost Flower Children, A mystery is unravelled when 2 unexpecting children are sent to there Aunt Miny's house. When the kids read the story too many things look familiar in the pictures. Follow through this mysterious mystery and be suprised! I reccomend this to people between the ages of 8-12.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Bit of Magic
Comment: I enjoyed this fanciful, dreamy, and yet extremely "down to earth" story at least as much or more than Taylor's Newbury Honor book, Afternoon of the Elves, and felt this one deserved a similar honor. As usual, Taylor does a superb job of towing the line between reality and fantasy, lacing ordinary experiences with little hints of magic that seem so natural and believable that it makes you think twice. Satomi Ichikawa's wistful sketches also provide a perfect compliment to the text. This is a charming book for lovers of gardens or of fairy tales, for imaginative young adults, and for people of all ages who still want to believe in a bit of magic.
Rating: 5
Summary: Beautiful and touching story about love and loss
Comment: I read this book last night, having merely picked it up to see if my daughter would like it. I couldn't put it down. The style is so gentle, and much like the books I read in my own childhood, rather than those stories which feel so forced to demonstrate how cool they are in order to interest today's children. I imagine many very normal girls will be very interested by the excellent style of the writer, by the story of the flower fairies which takes place in a summer garden, and by the genuine love and emotion which is generated by the interaction between the main characters.
The story is about two sisters whose mother has just died. The older one is able to admit to herself how lonely she feels for her mother. Yet she is also able to sacrifice her own need to grieve in order to care for her younger sister whose response to loss has been to obey rigid self-imposed routines and to contol her life in a way her mother's death would bely, by keeping outsiders strictly out of her life. The girls spend a summer with an elderly aunt and pursue an old mystery they read about in one of the books in the aunt's ancient home. Much of the action is spent in a wildly unkempt but magical and charming garden, and the girls' journey from grief to a more peaceful acceptance of their loss is a somewhat magical journey. The story gives a very positive role to the elderly aunt whose home they spend the summer visiting, and also paints a beautiful picture of sisterly support and love.
It's an absolute treasure of a book and I highly recommend it.
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Title: Afternoon of the Elves (Novel) by Janet Taylor Lisle ISBN: 0698118065 Publisher: PaperStar Book Pub. Date: 01 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: Brave As a Mountain Lion by Ann Herbert Scott, Glo Coalson ISBN: 0395667607 Publisher: Clarion Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1996 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread (NEWBERY MEDAL BOOK) by Kate Dicamillo, Timothy B. Ering ISBN: 0763617229 Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA) Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.99 |
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Title: The Art of Keeping Cool by Janet Taylor Lisle ISBN: 0689837887 Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: The Trolls by Polly Horvath ISBN: 0374479917 Publisher: Sunburst Pub. Date: 01 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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