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Bezig met laden... The Wee Christmas Cabin of Carn-na-weendoor Ruth Sawyer
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Now one of my favorite Xmas books; I'd love to hear it read aloud by a someone with an Irish accent. Touching, but heartbreaking. (Why do I love that so much?) ( ) After reading Margaret Hodge's recent adaptation of this Irish Christmas story (The Wee Christmas Cabin), which first saw print in Ruth Sawyer's 1941 collection, The Long Christmas, I was quite eager to track down the original version, published in this picture-book edition in 2005, with beautiful illustrations by Max Grafe. As much as I liked Hodges' retelling, I suspected that I would enjoy Sawyer's even more, and I was right! The moving story of Oona Hegarty, a tinker's child left, when still a newborn babe, on the doorstep of a farming family in Donegal, The Wee Christmas Cabin of Carn-na-Ween is a tale of kindness and cruelty, of prejudice and love, and of the long-awaited fulfillment of a dream. It follows Oona as she spends her life caring for the children and elderly relatives of others, unable to raise a family of her own, as no man will have a "tinker's child" for a wife. Finally, old and worn out, and determined not to take any more food from the mouths of starving children during that most terrible time in Irish history - the Great Famine - Oona heads out onto the bog one snowy Christmas Eve, to meet death like "an old friend." But the fairies - the "Good People," who have been watching Oona since she was a baby, and have noted her long life of service - have other ideas... Max Grafe's mixed media illustrations here are darkly satisfying, particularly the outdoor scenes, with their blue overtones, and give the book a true fairy-tale feeling. The language is rich, with an authentic Irish dialect missing from Hodges' retelling. The narrative is longer, more fully fleshed out, and - for me - more satisfying, than the contemporary adaptation, but I think that today's children might also find it more difficult. The Wee Christmas Cain of Carn-na-Ween is, after all, a text-heavy picture-book, so I would recommend it more to older children, those in the beginning-reader, and early chapter-book stages, than to the very young. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Oona Hegerty, a poor woman, has always longed for her own cabin, and on Christmas Eve, after being trapped in the snow with no shelter, she finds a group of wee people who work to grant her wish. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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