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and charming, delightful illustrations and life lessons, surprising humor, wry observations, Lots of fairy godmothers in this collection of stories, who turn into talking animals and give out magic tools, I didn't expect to enjoy this as much as I did bought it for,at a library sale because it reminded me of the large hardcover or leatherbound children's storybooks with full page color illustrations that I loved as a child and still do.
I'd intended to donate this one after reading, but it charmed me so much, I decided to keep it, Very oldfashioned, but I liked them, I read this book over and over as a young child, I still have it, and it's one of the very few original copies of books I read as a child that I still have, I have not yet finished The Adventures of a Brownie, so I will come back to that once I get to the end, .
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But first, The Little Lame Prince!!! Can I just say, I, a seventeenyearold girl, enjoy Children's Literature more now than I did at seven It's true, The book did not catch my eye so much as a littler kid,
This story is SO SWEET! So sad, but SO SO SO SO VERY SWEET, I was so upset that he was locked in the Hopeless Tower, but watching him float away to see the world on his traveling cloak was always satisfying, I felt a bit of me get disappointed when he was ready to come home,
The godmother was amazing, She took such good care of Dolor, and he loved noone but her, That is so sweet.
The ending is a bittersweet one, as is the whole book, but especially the ending, It is kind of hard for me to imagine the tiny little boy at the beginning to be an old man at the end, though I imagine he kept the childish look in his eye, even as an adult and king.
One thing I adore about children's literature is the writing style, It is simple, yes. But the simple writing style is magical, beautiful, and sweet, I mean, yeah, I love the writing style of Crime and Punishment, and Jane Eyre too, but in a completely different way, I think I will love children's novels even when I'm an old lady, The stories were cute but too long and kinda preachy This was a find in an antique store on my road trip through Colorado last month, I was fully expecting the old fashioned racism, sexism and formulaic plotlines that so many old children's books unfortunately have including, dare I say it, most of the Oz books, of which I have read many.
But I was very pleasantly surprised, Mrs. Craik is a good writer with a way of serving up a moral fable quite deliciously, The illustrations are great, I found a real treasure for my amateur kids' book collection, "How nice it must be to be a bird, If legs are no good, why cannot one have wings" The Little Prince
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I don't suppose you could ever find two leaves exactly alike, in form, colour, and size no more than you could find two faces alike, or two characters exactly the same.
The plan of this world is infinite similarity and yet infinite variety,
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And when he was left alone at last, and crept into his little bed, where he lay asked a good while, watching what he called his "sky garden", all planted with, like flowers.
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The sense of the inevitable, as grownup people call it that we cannot have things as we want them to be, but as they are, and that we must mean not to bear them and make the best of them this lesson, which everybody has to learn soon or late came, alas! sadly soon, to the poor boy.
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When we see people suffering or unfortunate, we feel very sorry for them but when we see them bravely bearing their sufferings, and making the best of their misfortunes, it is quite a different feeling.
We respect, we admire them, One can respect even a little child,
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There is something which we listen to daily and never notice.
I mean the sounds of the visible world, animate and inanimate, Winds blowing, waters flowing, trees stirring, insects whirring, dear me! I am quite unconsciously writing rhyme, with the various cries of birds and beasts lowing cattle, bleating sheep, grunting pigs, and calling hens all the infinite discords somehow or other make a beautiful harmony.
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The Adventures of a Brownie was our favorite! I am not a fan of this Brownie, He's mean. Oh, and also, the book is very sexist and dated, I wouldn't have a problem with it except it keeps on referring to children as "little people" which for some reason annoys me immensely, Maychance because I keep picturing "little people" as in, . . midgets. Also there are like a ton of stories in this book in addition to "The Lame Little Prince" and "The Adventures of Brownie" which are all equally as dated and annoying but also appealing in that weird way that fairy tales are appealing and also mildly annoying.
My favorite story was the last one even though I'm not a fan of any of their morals,
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Actually, I'm okay with the outdated morals, They're charming. Charming story about a lame prince who learns early on that being handicapped does not mean that you cannot live life to the fullest, I thoroughly enjoyed the book, It was quite a paradigm shift I kept expecting his godmother to remove her magic wand and heal his leg, . . but she didn't, and that was quite different, All in all it is a magical tale with a very deep lesson, The Brownie adventures nothing to bad nothing good children would appreciate them though Prince Dolor, a little lame prince, has been locked away in a tower by his evil uncle ever since he can remember,
The Prince is an excellent character and I love how much he grows by the end of the book, Craik did a good job at passing the time in the book, which covers many years in the life of Dolor, without really making me feel the time jumps.
It is also full of beautiful lessons and moral goodness,
It contains some sensitive subjects such as disability, some religious undertones, and the race of one character though I personally think Craik handled all of these very well.
When I was rather little, my sister would read it to me from time to time and this past month she read it to me again and I love it now as much as I did then.
I couldn't have been more thenwhen she read it to me and, since I could understand and enjoy it well enough then as I do now, I would say it's a fine book to read for both children and adults.
Charming and lovely.
The young listeners very much enjoyed the story of the Little Lame Prince, though I don't know whether they got the moral message, As for me, I could do without the author's asides, Words like "bland" and "inoffensive" come to mind, The first part, "The Little Lame Prince," is a draggedout, derivative fairy tale with pretensions to allegory that are not fully realized, The Brownie stories are cute little thinigs about the eponymous sprite and the mild mischief he gets up to, Utterly forgettable. Very cute. I love any story with a brownie in it, : Cute stories that teach a lesson without being obnoxious about it, I especially liked how the children in both stories were allowed to be mostly good and a little bad sometimes, but still considered good children, DMM was very forgiving of children for being children, and very positive about their abilities and behavior,
The Little Lame Prince was a beautiful story about growing up and forgiveness, The Adventures of a Brownie was a fun collection of fairly independent short stories that teach about manners and doing your work well, .