Afbeelding auteur

Marianne Musgrove

Auteur van The Worry Tree

9 Werken 127 Leden 4 Besprekingen

Over de Auteur

Marianne Musgrove is a South Australian children's author and worry workshop presenter. Some of her books include Forget-me-not Fairies, The Beginner's Guide to Revenge, and Lucy the Good. She won the 2008 Australian Family Therapists' Award for Children's Literature for The Worry Tree, the 2011 toon meer Swiss Prix Chronos for Don't Breathe a Word (German edition). In 2016, she will be a May Gibbs Children's Literature Trust fellow. She was also the winner of the Max Fatchen Fellowship from the 2016 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder

Bevat de naam: Marianne Musgrove

Werken van Marianne Musgrove

The Worry Tree (2007) 61 exemplaren
Lucy the Good (2008) 20 exemplaren
Don't Breathe a Word (2009) 18 exemplaren
Frieda: A New Australian (2016) 8 exemplaren
The Beginner's Guide to Revenge (2012) 6 exemplaren
Juliet e l'albero dei pensieri (2010) 1 exemplaar
Lucy the Lie Detector (2010) 1 exemplaar

Tagged

Algemene kennis

Geslacht
female
Nationaliteit
Australia

Leden

Besprekingen

Welcome to Nostalgia Rereads, where I reread stuff I used to love, you can find these books on my shelf, Nostalgia in a shelf.
I still find myself somewhat enjoying this except for one thing, they're too short. I get they're for little kids or for the little ones at heart but if there were just a few more pages of each story.
If I get bored, I might try out the crafts, the stories are very creative with beautiful illustrations.

 
Gemarkeerd
crazynerd | Mar 30, 2022 |
BIS Book Award nominee 2009-2010

Last one done! Hurray!

I almost wish I had this book earlier, because I think it does a good job of helping anxious kids with the idea of a worry tree to hang your worries on at night so that you can sleep. Maybe I need to paint one in my own room.
 
Gemarkeerd
scote23 | 1 andere bespreking | Mar 30, 2013 |
Lucy is not having a good day. She's had a fight with mean girl Jacinta and nobody understands, least of all her teacher Ms. Denny. So she threw a tantrum and ended up in the time out chair yet again. Then she gets into even more trouble when they go to pick up her great-aunt from Holland. Lucy was looking forward to sharing her room with Tante Bep, but her aunt thinks she's bad and tells her scary stories of Black Piet, who comes to carry off naughty children in his sack.

Things go from bad to worse as Lucy gets into more and more trouble until finally she decides she has to test herself to see if she's really bad or good. Of course, her test goes wrong, but everything turns out ok; her parents reassure her, Tante Bep admits she was wrong, and even Ms. Denny turns out to be much nicer than Lucy had thought.

This is a little longer than the beginning chapter books I'm looking for, but Lucy's frustration and endless troubles are well-written and will draw readers in from one scenario to the next. While I never really bought Tante Bep - it's hard to believe Lucy's parents wouldn't tell her about their son's serious food allergies or that Lucy would believe the old Black Piet story - she makes a good catalyst character to set off Lucy's troubles and finally get everyone to resolve the problems. Musgrove does a very good job of showing the other adults as real people; one of the things Lucy realizes at the end is that there are other perspectives. She realizes that Ms. Denny sometimes get distracted and flustered, that her dad has trouble relating to Tante Bep, and that Tante Bep isn't quite as mean as she seems either.

The book concludes with a recipe, translation of Dutch words and phrases, and an activity.

Verdict: This isn't quite what I was looking for and I thought the Tante Bep character was a bit unrealistic (would she really be old enough to find Lucy's dad being a "home manager" strange?), but it's a good intermediate chapter book and kids will enjoy reading about Lucy's endless problems and their satisfying resolution. An additional purchase.

ISBN: 9780805090512; Published 2010 by Henry Holt; Borrowed from the library
… (meer)
 
Gemarkeerd
JeanLittleLibrary | Aug 4, 2012 |
Juliet worries about everything. She is constantly tormented by her younger sister, Ophelia. Her dad could be described as a “mad scientist” and is oblivious to everything except his inventions. Her Grandmother is a retired professor who hasn’t embraced the thrill of craft class at the senior center. Mom is a psychologist who’s solution to family friction is to play the “tell me how you really feel” game. And then there are the friends. There is hope for Juliet, however, when an old mural is discovered beneath peeling wallpaper. It is the Worry Tree and is filled with helpful animals to whom you can entrust all your problems while you sleep. (Grades 3-5)… (meer)
 
Gemarkeerd
smclawler | 1 andere bespreking | Jul 15, 2009 |

Prijzen

Statistieken

Werken
9
Leden
127
Populariteit
#158,248
Waardering
½ 3.7
Besprekingen
4
ISBNs
37
Talen
4

Tabellen & Grafieken