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Loading... Wild Robert (1989)by Diana Wynne Jones
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Wonderful, short story, for young children, but not too simple. A quick, but enjoyable read. ( ) A haunting and, actually, quite horrible little story about a boy born with fairy blood and murdered by his family. This is published as a title for younger readers, and I don't know quite what the kiddies made of it. I do feel that publishing it like this was rather a waste; it reads like the first few chapters of something much longer, complex and more interesting. I should have liked to have read that book. Quite possibly that's what it was intended to be and it just didn't happen. But if any of DWJ's books are begging for fanfic for completion, this would be the one. Heather is tired of the tourists who over run her home at Castlemaine every summer, even though she knows that it is part of her parent's job as trustees of the historic site. Then one day while trying to escape the flocks of visitors she sits upon the mound of Wild Robert and calls to life the spirit of the young wizard who is determined to claim Castlemaine as his own. I very much enjoyed this cute, quick tale of a sad yet determined spirit who was wronged by those he trusted. I think that if I could convince my 7 year old to read the book, he would like it also. This book is a great chapter book for beginning readers with easily read print and exciting enough to hold a child's attention. The ending did kind of leave off abruptly but it might be the sort of story you could talk to your child about and ponder, "what do you think happened next?" no reviews | add a review
While trying to get away from the tourists visiting the stately home where her parents are caretakers, Heather accidentally summons a mischievous 350-year-old youth with magical powers and nothing is ever the same again. No library descriptions found. |
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