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Original Essays | September 23, 2009

Jonathan Lethem: IMG Stops: On Those Things My New Novel Forgot to Be About, Maybe

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For me, there's a weird, unfathomable gulf — I almost wrote gulp — between the completion of a novel and its publication. Some days this duration feels interminable, as though the book has... Continue »
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Linnets and Valerians

by Elizabeth Goudge

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ISBN13: 9780142300268
ISBN10: 0142300268
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When the four orphaned Linnet children are sent to live with their nasty grandmother, they decide at once their new life is unbearable and they run away. Making their way through the English countryside, the encounter a host of unforgettable characters and begin their search for the missing Valerians. Will they be thwarted by the witch Emma Cobley and her magic cat?
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thebadmom, June 8, 2008 (view all comments by thebadmom)
I am currently reading this (a very worn copy I got on my 12th birthday 2*#&*% years ago) to my kids and it is holding its own against the beloved Harry Potter magical world.

I used to read it every summer until high school. The writing is simply lovely and so engaging; I truly felt like I was sharing the adventure with the Linnet children.
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sillybooklover, April 26, 2006 (view all comments by sillybooklover)
This book is so beautifully written. The children are ideal, perhaps not quite true to life, but exactally how you would hope they'd be.
The magic in this world is very thick, however, it is mostly the magic of the every-day and ordinary, the kind that children find all over but grown-ups miss.
The story weaves in many characters, but each are well formed and interact believably with eachother and the children.
Reading this book truly feels like opening a present, no matter how many times I read it, I find something new to make me fall in love with it all over again.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780142300268
Author:
Goudge, Elizabeth
Publisher:
Puffin
Location:
New York
Subject:
Children's 9-12 - Fiction - General
Subject:
Brothers and sisters
Subject:
Family - Multigenerational
Subject:
England
Subject:
Magic
Subject:
Uncles
Subject:
Action & Adventure
Series Volume:
no. WQ-95-74.
Publication Date:
20011231
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
Children/juvenile
Language:
English
Pages:
256
Dimensions:
7.80x4.94x.69 in. .45 lbs.
Age Level:
08-12
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