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Gangbare naam: Robinson, Mabel Louise
Geboortedatum: 1874-07-19
Overlijdensdatum: 1962-02-21
Geslacht: female
Nationaliteit: USA
Geboorteplaats: Waltham, Massachusetts, USA
Plaats van overlijden: New York City, New York, USA
Opleiding: Radcliffe College
Columbia University
Beroepen: writer
teacher
Relaties: Hull, Helen Rose (partner)

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King Arthur and his knights door Mabel Louise,, Robinson

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Mustygusher | 1 andere bespreking | Dec 19, 2022 |

Bright Island door Mabel L. Robinson

Quite an incredible YA for 1937! The heroine, Thankful, is one of seven children born to a Scottish immigrant mother and the son of a sea captain, the youngest and the only girl, on an island in Maine owed by the family. After her beloved grandfather dies, she learns that he had provided funds for her education at a boarding school on the mainland. Although Thankful is perfectly tuned to her chores, her daily swim in frigid waters, and her sailboat, something inside stirs her into action and her life is jolted by the students and teachers she meets off-island, and by her first jaunt to Boston, and her first movie (Anna Karenina with Greta Garbo). Thankful's mother Mary is her rock, and when a crisis occurs, the novel walks the same path as Huw and his mother in How Green Was My Valley, written two years later, in Wales. A comparable coming-of-age novel, in its simplicity and beauty, to A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.… (meer)

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froxgirl | 5 andere besprekingen | Aug 6, 2020 |

Bright Island door Mabel L. Robinson

Thankful Curtis loves life on her family's small island off the coast of Maine and balks at being sent to the mainland for school. She struggles through the changes that go along with adjusting to boarding school and life away from her island, but she's strong, resilient, and stubborn in all the right ways. I loved this coming-of-age story, with its strong characters and beautiful descriptions of island life. Published in the late 1930's, this one has aged very well. Definitely recommended.

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electrascaife | 5 andere besprekingen | Nov 25, 2018 |

Bright Island

A charming book. I particularly liked the illustrations. I also appreciated the complexity & unpredictability of the adult characters. Robert, Selina, even Dave and Orin were more superficial... but the Curtis adults kept surprising me.

There were a few occasions of awkward syntax, and a few times I sort of lost track of where, in her personal journey of growth, Thankful was, but not enough to consider actual flaws. I think this is the best book of the year, including over the winner, The White Stag. The Newbery committee probably noted that it promotes healthy American values, and teaches us about life on an island in Maine (and in a boarding school, for that matter).

I wonder why it's not so well known? Is it because it's actually YA, given that Thankful is, what, 17?, and trying to graduate from secondary school & plan for her adulthood? Most Newberys we've read seem to be written for 'tweens. Is it that people (like several other reviewers here) try to read it as contemporary; whereas a better approach would be to imagine it as historical fiction?

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