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Title: Baby Island by Carol Ryrie Brink, Helen Sewell ISBN: 0-689-71751-2 Publisher: Aladdin Library Pub. Date: 31 October, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.76 (34 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Childhood favorite to be read with your kids.
Comment: I read this book over 20 years ago, and have remembered it vividly. As soon as I could find it, I began reading it to my 5-year-old. Although I have to explain some of the "old-fashioned" references to her, she is as enthralled as I was (and am). This book is just as much fun to read today as it was when I was a child.
It is a grand adventure with genuine heros. Mary and Jean are brave and resourceful, and undaunted in their struggle to care for 4 babies on a desert island after a shipwreck. From the mixing of the twins to meeting a "savitch," this book is delightful
Rating: 5
Summary: Great for boys too
Comment: My fourth grade teacher read this book to us a chapter at a time and we were all so eager for the next day's reading. One of the very best childhood books ever. Many reviewers are commenting that it is a great girls book, but I and the other boys in class loved it too. I'm 45 now and when I chanced on a copy of Baby Island in a used book store I snatched it up. After all those years it was still a great read.
Rating: 4
Summary: Fantasy Island, but Lots of Fun
Comment: This fun book comes from Carol Ryrie Brink, the author who brought us Caddie Woodlawn, and while shorter and not quite up to the standards set by that great book, is one that kids are sure to enjoy.
Written in 1937 it tells the tale of two girls, 12 year old Mary and her younger sister Jean, who rescue four babies and end up floating alone with them in a lifeboat in the middle of the ocean when the steamliner they are sailing on begins to sink. The quick thinking and good sense of the girls pulls them through when they run aground on a small deserted tropical island. This book was written in a "kinder, gentler" time than our own and thank goodness because the children do not experience anything traumatic or terribly frightening. They mostly exhibit plucky courage and try to do things properly with their little charges, one infant and three active toddlers. There is plenty of humor and adventure in the book, but not much realism. They easily find clean water, food and shelter, but this isn't a reality show it's a children's fantasy. The childcare methods have changed somewhat over the years and that makes the story seem rather quaint, but I found that all the more endearing. The girls insist upon having a church service every Sunday even though that only consists of singing hymns and reciting the 23rd Psalm, the only Bible passage they know by heart. Again, this is quaint but interesting and sweet. I think most modern day children will love the story and enjoy imagining what they would do under similar circumstances. This is not much like other "deserted island" stories such as Swiss Family Robinson, Robinson Crusoe or even Island of the Blue Dolphins in terms of action, but it is similar to those in its ability to transport and to kindle the imagination. Check it out.
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Title: Caddie Woodlawn's Family by Carol Ryrie Brink, Marguerite Davis, Mauguerite Davis ISBN: 0689714165 Publisher: Aladdin Library Pub. Date: November, 1990 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: The Milly-Molly-Mandy Storybook by Joyce Lankester Brisley ISBN: 0753453320 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 15 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild ISBN: 0679847596 Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers Pub. Date: 23 November, 1993 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: The Four-Story Mistake by Elizabeth Enright ISBN: 0140383948 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: June, 1997 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Railway Children by C. E. Brock, Edith Nesbit ISBN: 0140366717 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: November, 1994 List Price(USD): $3.99 |
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