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Baby Island (1937)

by Carol Ryrie Brink

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Twelve-year-old Mary Wallace and her ten-year-old sister Jean survive the wreck of an ocean liner on its way to Australia and manage to make it to a seemingly deserted island in a lifeboat with four babies.
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  ASSG.Library | Mar 8, 2024 |
Very, very dated, but still a fun adventure story aimed at girls. ( )
  bookwyrmm | May 19, 2021 |
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  lcslibrarian | Aug 13, 2020 |
Fun and somewhat believable story about a couple young girls cast adrift in a lifeboat, along with four babies under 2! There's nothing really objectionable in the tale, and the songs that Jean makes up tend to stick in one's head.

I read this many times as a child, and was pleased to enjoy it again as an adult. ( )
  fuzzi | Aug 6, 2020 |
Hilarious, and delightful in retrospect, because I know from my grandmother's stories that she was definitely a baby-borrower, just like the resourceful protagonists of this 1930s adventure novel. (It was evidently a thing in the 30s, at least in New York City, for young girls to take their neighbors' children on walks around the block for fun and zero profit.)

I don't know that adults who don't have fond memories of this one from childhood will get much out of it, but I think kids would still find it fun and funny. Warning for some time-period typical discussion of indigenous peoples as "savitches" (savages) and potential cannibals from the perspective of naive middle-class American children. ( )
  elenaj | Jul 31, 2020 |
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