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Title: Ginger Finds a Home by Charlotte Voake ISBN: 0-7636-1999-X Publisher: Candlewick Press Pub. Date: June, 2003 Format: School & Library Binding Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Ginger is invited by a little girl to live in a real home
Comment: Ginger is a little orange cat, very thin, with a tail like a piece of string, who is living in a patch of weeds at the end of a garden. Ginger survives by drinking water from puddles and finding things to eat in trash cans before sleeping in a patch of weeds each night. Then one day the cold and hungry little cat came back to his patch of weeds and discovered a plate of delicious cat food. The next day there is not only another plate of food waiting for him, but also a little girl.
"Ginger Finds a Home" is a prequel to Charlotte Voake's "Ginger" and tells the story of how one small cat finds, help, a home, and love. Voake lives in England and the story here is a true one about the day the real Ginger, who lived at the bottom of her garden in England, decided to come and live with the family. What is nice about this story is that it captures the tentativeness of the bonds between the hungry cat and the little girl that has decided to offer him a home in which to live.
Anybody who has lived with a cat (it is a mistake to think that they choose to live with you) will know that "Ginger Finds a Home" rings true. For anybody who has ever brought home a stray cat this charming little book will strike a chord, and if you have a cat that entered your life by more conventional means you can check out Voake's "Ginger" as well.
Rating: 4
Summary: Pleasing & gentle
Comment: Ginger is a stray cat struggling to survive when he finds a place where food is easily available-- although there seems to be another animal there too. This animal continues to bring food to him and finally he trusts the little girl enough to venture into the house where at last he finds a home.
Voake manages to portray the hard life of a stray without being too upsetting for younger children while making sure that they understand the hardships involved. She also gently instructs in the art of making animal friends: patience, kindness and more patience. She is also accurate in her depiction of Ginger's reactions in a way many authors fail: for example, Ginger is frightened being in the house and reacts accordingly instead of deciding immediately that this is HOME. It's a more realistic treatment than most and I find that admirable.
The illustrations are more suggestive of characters and events than detailed and accurate; this is not Anne Mortimer, more like Quentin Blake. They are also old fashioned in a way, in that they leave lots of open space, focusing in instead on, say, how Ginger curls up in his spot of grass rather than the entire yard.
I'd especially recommend this for people who work in animal rescue to use to explain to small children what it is like to be a stray and why stray animals need time to adjust to people. However it would work for any pre-K- 1st grade as a story just to be enjoyed.
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Title: Ginger by Charlotte Voake ISBN: 0763615404 Publisher: Candlewick Press Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Grannyman by Judith Byron Schachner ISBN: 0525461221 Publisher: Dutton Books Pub. Date: September, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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