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    <body><![CDATA[It took me so long to get through this book that I was starting to think the title was prophetic.  Full disclosure: I am not a big fan of stories about eccentric English families (unless their last name happens to be Bagthorpe), and I have only read the first book in this series and none of the sequ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22824274">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Thank goodness for British children’s books!  There is something about a book in which characters say “shan’t” and use mysterious objects called spongebags and occasionally talk in Capital Letters that warms my heart like a spot of tea and some beans on toast.<br/><br/>Forever Rose by Hila...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27883877">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Hilary McKay just can't write these fast enough for me.  We were introduced to <em>Indigo's Star</em> first--our friend Catherine gave it to us when we were expecting our daughter and told her Indigo was our likely choice for a name--and Joy and I both loved the whole Casson family immediately.  We bought al...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55287176">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Fifth (and final, I think) in the heart-warming adventures of the unique Cassen family, this story is told completely from the perspective of the youngest member of the family, Rose.  She is lonely as everyone else is off living their own lives, except for Indigo's friend David who keeps showing up ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22277008">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It really surprised me how different Forever Rose was from the previous books. For one thing, Rose is older and more mature. Since she is the narrator, this changes the entire tone of the book from whimsical and funny to more serious and at some times depressing. Of course, the humor is still there ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23243666">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I was surprised to read so many positive reviews of this book, to be honest. Then, I realized that most of the people who wrote the reviews have read the other four previous books in the series. <br/><br/>I liked the eccentricities of the family, but I felt left out of their backgrounds. There wer...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43935551">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Oh my - didn't put this on my shelves in my initial Goodreads shelf-filling.  Slightly incoherent rave for it on my LJ immediately after finishing <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://lady-schrapnell.livejournal.com/89404.html">here</a>. It was also my <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://lady-schrapnell.livejournal.com/97820.html#cutid1">best book</a> of 2007, though I admitted the difficulty of choosing ONE favourite.<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46844762">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I believe this book is the last of the series.  It is a great story about love, family and growing up.  Rose is left at home alone most of the time now as her siblings begin lives outside of the house.  Rose especially misses her oldest sister who has completely disappeared from view.  This is a gre...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54302250">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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  <read_at>Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is my least favorite of the Casson Family books...which are SPECTACULAR. If you haven't read SAFFY'S ANGEL, INDIGO'S STAR, or PERMANENT ROSE, read them. And then you'll have to read the last two, too, just because you will. But the first ones are some of my mostest favoritist books ever ever EV...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39777598">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Fifth book in the Casson Family series.  Poor Rose is starting to feel like an only child rattling around the big Casson house by herself.  Her grown-up sister Caddy has left home and no one quite knows where she is.   Her mother is living out in the shed, painting and getting progressively sicker. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31215447">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the fifth book by Hilary McKay about the eccentric Casson family, one of the few non-fantasy series I not only read, but adore. I recommend reading them all in order: Saffy's Angel, Indigo's Star, Permanent Rose, Caddy Ever After, and now this one, Forever Rose. The Casson parents are artist...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34191008">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<strong><p>Rose knows that nothing stays the same forever.<p>Still, it's hard to watch her sisters and brother growing up and moving so far ahead of her. Caddy is back, but she's not living at home. And worse -- she's broken up with Darling Michael. Saffy and Indigo are so busy, they are seldom home. With her father in London and her mother painting in the shed, Rose is often alone in the house.<p>Maybe that's why she agrees to her new friend Molly's crazy scheme. At least it seems crazy when Rose finds herself locked in the zoo at night with a roaring tiger. Maybe she should have been paying more attention to what Molly was saying. But on that spooky night, Rose finds out a secret that just might change everything -- and help bring her family and friends together and new life to their old house.<p>Hilary McKay infuses her charming characters with much love and laughter in this final visit with the delightfully daffy Casson family.</p></p></p></p></strong>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hilary McKay's Casson family stories are always a treat - the story lines are never idyllic, but the books always end up having a pleasantly eccentric, idyllic quality.  I'm never sure how to describe them, but I love them all and I was delighted to see a fifth installment.  Start with Saffy's Angel...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21398121">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[As Christmas approaches, eleven-year-old Rose, the youngest member of the eccentric Casson family, discovers that life is filled with both catastrophic problems and wonderful surprises.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I simply LOVE everything that Hilary McKay writes.  Her series on the Caisson family is absolutely delightful!  Once you get past the unusual, quirky, slightly neglectful parents, you'll find a family that is just so much fun to read about! ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Rose is funny and spunky. She has a jumble of things on her mind: she's trying to get Caddy back home, help the children in Africa, help Molly with her trip to the zoo, and Saffy is trying to make her enjoy reading.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<strong><p>Rose knows that nothing stays the same forever.<p>Still, it's hard to watch her sisters and brother growing up and moving so far ahead of her. Caddy is back, but she's not living at home. And worse -- she's broken up with Darling Michael. Saffy and Indigo are so busy, they are seldom home. With her father in London and her mother painting in the shed, Rose is often alone in the house.<p>Maybe that's why she agrees to her new friend Molly's crazy scheme. At least it seems crazy when Rose finds herself locked in the zoo at night with a roaring tiger. Maybe she should have been paying more attention to what Molly was saying. But on that spooky night, Rose finds out a secret that just might change everything -- and help bring her family and friends together and new life to their old house.<p>Hilary McKay infuses her charming characters with much love and laughter in this final visit with the delightfully daffy Casson family.</p></p></p></p></strong>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fifth book in the wonderful YA series about the Casson family. I love the humor, strong characterizations, and loving relationships in this offbeat English family.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I have loved this whole series about the Cassen family and was surprised to find a 5th title when I thought Caddy's story was the final one. I'm glad it wasn't though as I'm pleased with the closure of &quot;Darling Michael and Caddy&quot; as well as with &quot;Daddy and Mummy.&quot; Rose is certain...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27723685">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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