The Penderwicks at Point Mouette
Autor Jeanne Birdsallen Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 mai 2012 – vârsta până la 12 ani
Subliniem cu bucurie revenirea uneia dintre cele mai îndrăgite familii din literatura contemporană pentru copii. În The Penderwicks at Point Mouette, micul cititor va experimenta efervescența unei vacanțe la malul mării în Maine, marcată de descoperirea autonomiei și de consolidarea legăturilor de prietenie. Experiența de lectură este una caldă și plină de umor, oferind un ritm relaxat, specific zilelor lungi de vară, unde micile incidente — de la pescăruși entuziaști la sondaje amoroase naive — devin amintiri prețioase.
Notăm cu interes evoluția personajelor: în absența lui Rosalind, Skye trebuie să gestioneze haosul creat de surorile mai mici, o provocare ce aduce la suprafață teme legate de maturizare și autocontrol. Jeanne Birdsall păstrează stilul care a consacrat seria ca un clasic modern, amintind de atmosfera din The Penderwicks on Gardam Street, dar cu o temă actuală: adaptarea la schimbare și asumarea de noi roluri în cadrul familiei atunci când ierarhiile obișnuite sunt perturbate. Dacă în volumele anterioare, precum The Penderwicks in Spring, accentul cădea pe surprizele de acasă, aici cadrul marin de la Point Mouette oferă o perspectivă proaspătă asupra dinamicii dintre fete și prietenul lor de suflet, Jeffrey.
Structura narativă împletește armonios perspectivele surorilor, de la încercările literare ale lui Jane până la momentele muzicale surprinzătoare ale lui Batty. Este o proză care celebrează onestitatea și loialitatea, oferind o alternativă blândă la literatura de aventură intensă, concentrându-se pe „aventurile” interioare și relaționale ale copilăriei.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0375851356
Pagini: 295
Dimensiuni: 131 x 193 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: RANDOM HOUSE CHILDREN'S BOOKS
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Public țintă
8-12 yearsDe ce să citești această carte
Recomandăm această carte părinților care caută o lectură formativă pentru copii între 8 și 12 ani. The Penderwicks at Point Mouette oferă un model de familie unită, unde conflictele se rezolvă prin empatie și umor. Cititorul câștigă o lecție valoroasă despre responsabilitate și importanța prieteniei, totul într-un decor de vacanță care invită la visare și explorare.
Despre autor
Jeanne Birdsall este o autoare americană de succes, distinsă cu prestigiosul National Book Award pentru debutul său în literatura pentru copii. Seria The Penderwicks a devenit rapid un fenomen editorial, fiind inclusă pe lista de bestselleruri New York Times și vândută în peste un milion de exemplare. Birdsall este recunoscută pentru capacitatea de a recrea atmosfera clasică a prozei pentru copii, fiind adesea comparată cu Noel Streatfeild. Locuiește în Massachusetts, unde își găsește inspirația în compania familiei și a animalelor sale de companie, elemente care se reflectă adesea în căldura poveștilor sale.
Descriere scurtă
When summer comes around, it's off to the beach for Rosalind . . . and off to Maine with Aunt Claire for the rest of the Penderwick girls, as well as their old friend, Jeffrey.
That leaves Skye as OAP (oldest available Penderwick)-a terrifying notion for all, but for Skye especially. Things look good as they settle into their cozy cottage, with a rocky shore, enthusiastic seagulls, a just-right corner store, and a charming next-door neighbor. But can Skye hold it together long enough to figure out Rosalind's directions about not letting Batty explode? Will Jane's Love Survey come to a tragic conclusion after she meets the alluring Dominic? Is Batty-contrary to all accepted wisdom-the only Penderwick capable of carrying a tune? And will Jeffrey be able to keep peace between the girls . . . these girls who are his second, and most heartfelt, family?
It's a rollicking ride as the Penderwicks continue their unforgettable adventures in a story filled with laughs and joyful tears!
Recenzii
"The Penderwick sisters' third adventure brings them back in full entertaining force...From start to finish, this is a summer holiday to savor."
Starred review, Booklist, May 15, 2011:
"Drawing readers right into the family, [Birdsall] enlivens the everyday matters and endows her characters with so much individuality it’s as though she’s erased the word generic from the dictionary."
From the Hardcover edition.
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From the Hardcover edition.
Extras
That had been two days earlier, and now the remaining Penderwicks—four sisters named Rosalind, Skye, Jane, and Batty—were about to tear apart even more. Early the next morning, three of them would leave for Maine with their Aunt Claire, while the fourth headed to New Jersey with her best friend. The sisters had never been apart for an entire two weeks, and though all of them were nervous about it, the one going off on her own was the most nervous. This was the oldest, thirteen-year-old Rosalind, and she was having a terrible time accepting that her sisters could survive without her.
Right now she was waiting in her bedroom for them to arrive. She didn’t want to be in her bedroom—she wanted to be with five-year-old Batty, getting her ready for bed just like she always did. But tonight Skye and Jane, the two middle sisters, were helping Batty with her bath and pajamas. Practice, Aunt Claire called it, or a dry run. She’d thought it would calm Rosalind to see that indeed she wasn’t absolutely needed when it came to Batty. And Rosalind would have been calm, except that the others were supposed to come to her room as soon as they were finished, and that should have been at least ten minutes ago. How could a simple bath take so long? They knew she wanted to have one last MOPS—that is, Meeting of Penderwick Sisters—before Batty had to go to sleep. One last MOPS before they were all separated for two weeks.
“Two whole weeks,” groaned Rosalind, then looked up hopefully, because she heard footsteps in the hall. They were here.
But it was only one of them—twelve-year-old Skye, the second sister—and she didn’t have the look of someone who’d just conducted a successful bath. Her blond hair was hanging in damp clumps and there were wet spots on her tee shirt.
“It’s not as bad as it looks,” she said. “Batty’s fine. She didn’t drown or anything.”
“Then what happened?”
“Hound got into the tub with her.”
That explained why Skye was so wet. The Penderwicks’ dog was large and enthusiastic—getting him out of a bathtub would make anyone wet. But it didn’t explain why he’d been in the bathroom the first place.
“Hound always tries to get into the tub,” said Rosalind. “That’s why he’s not allowed near Batty at bath time. Didn’t you know that?”
“Nope, and neither did Jane. But we know it now, and we’ll clean up the bathroom later. I promise.”
A dry run! The irony wasn’t lost on Rosalind. She was determined not to scold, though, not this very last night. “Where are the others?”
“Jane is helping Batty with her pajamas. They’ll be here soon.” Skye shook her head violently, tossing droplets of water across the room. “Where’s your Latin dictionary? I need to look up revenge.”
“On my bookshelf, though I wish you wouldn’t.” Rosalind knew why Skye was thinking about revenge, and that she’d been thinking of little else for the last twenty-four hours. Which was absolutely not the best way to prepare for the next two weeks. With Rosalind off in New Jersey, Skye would be the OAP—Oldest Available Penderwick—and she needed to concentrate on taking care of her two younger sisters, not on carrying out revenge. “Daddy says the best revenge is to be better than your enemy.”
“I’m doing that, too. Almost anyone could,” said Skye, leafing through the dictionary. “Here it is. Revenge: ultio or vindicta. Then it says: to take revenge on is se vindicare in. Se vindicare in Jeffrey’s loathsome mother. How do I say Jeffrey’s loathsome mother in Latin?”
Skye’s desire for revenge was justified—Rosalind knew that. Jeffrey was Jeffrey Tifton, a boy the Penderwicks had met the previous summer while renting a cottage at his mother’s estate, called Arundel. By the time that vacation was over, Jeffrey was their excellent friend and honorary brother, and since then the sisters had seen him as often as they could, which was nowhere near often enough. He was always too far away—either at Arundel, a few hours west of the Penderwicks’ home in Cameron, Massachusetts, or at his Boston boarding school, a few hours east of Cameron. It had been natural then for the younger three sisters to want Jeffrey in Maine with them, and with great hope, they’d invited him.
After much dilly-dallying and back-and-forthing by his mother, permission had finally been given, spirits raised, ecstatic phone calls exchanged—until suddenly, just that morning, a mere twenty-four hours before departure for Maine, the permission had been withdrawn. Jeffrey’s mother had decided that he wasn’t going with the Penderwicks. He wasn’t going anywhere. He was stuck at Arundel for the whole summer.
From the Hardcover edition.