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    <body><![CDATA[This is such an unusual book. It is possible to open it to any page, start reading, and fall under its spell. Thanks to Benjamin Hoff's research and fascination with Opal Whiteley, another generation will know and love her as he does. It took me awhile to finish the book, due to its meandering natur...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15771529">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[If you like interesting writing, child narrators, and a good real life mystery, this book is for you. The mystery comes with the story of Opal Whiteley's life. Benjamin Hoff writes an excellent biography that is so puzzling that it leaves you searching for clues int eht ext of the journals. The jour...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7662637">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I feel like I should preface this review with a line of a poem that I adored in my childhood:<br/><br/>“If you are a dreamer,come in. If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, a hoper, a prayer, a magic-bean-buyer. If you're a pretender, come sit by my fire, for we have some flax-golden tales to s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71612123">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Don't let your sister find your diary.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a purely delightful story. You are inside the head of an exceptional child. There was some controversy over whether Opal really wrote this journal as a child or not, but I believe she did. I read this several years ago, but it deserves a more detailed review. I highly recommend it to anyone ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57112777">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was actually two books.  Opal's writings were basically her childhood accounts of her 'adventures'.  She gave great names to animals, including rats and mice, and to elements of natural things around her.  She had named a tree and toward the end of the book, greived when it was cut down.  ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44068404">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A novel/diary/hoax/not hoax that was a sensation in the 1920s and went out of print a year after publication. I still haven't made up my mind as to the validity of Whiteley's story. Whether this was evidence of her illness or her precociousness, I don't know. However, her life was fascinating and he...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42104413">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I have doubts about the authenticity of this,  but enjoyed it all the same and look forward to more info.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is quite simply the most amazing document i have ever read. detailed review to follow later.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;One must leave an eye on every piece of potato one plants...it can't see how to grow without its eye...&quot;) and &quot;I have longings for more eyes-there is much to see in this world all about. Every day, I do see beautiful things, everywhere I go.&quot;<br/><br/>A fairy wreath of jasmine...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27486515">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[There is a passage in this book where little Opal peels potatoes, notices that each has multiple eyes, (&quot;One must leave an eye on every piece of potato one plants...it can't see how to grow without its eye...&quot;) and writes &quot;I have longings for more eyes-there is much to see in this wor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10507324">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[LOVE this book! It's the diary of a very poor little 6 year old girl at the turn of the century who could hear animals, birds, insects, plants and even the earth it self speak. The biography at the beginning and end are by Benjamin Hoff, well known author of The Tao of Pooh. The Singing Creek Where ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14123830">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was a gift that I started reading when I was camping once but never finished.  It made me cry. It's an autobiography of Opal Whitely who was &quot;born in 1897 and grew up in logging settlements near the town of Cottage Grove&quot;...it's based off of her childhood diaries...I want to fini...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4114321">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Beautiful and heartbreaking. It also contains what is possibly some of the purest mystical and naive nature poetry focussed through a child's eyes around. <br/><br/>The nature diary is the beautiful part.<br/><br/>The biography of Opal Whitely also included is the heartbreaking part.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The author made a good case for the diary having been written by Opal as a child, but I'm still not convinced.  At any rate, I enjoyed reading it because I think SOME of it was definitely written as a child and she was obviously an extraordinary person.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Desperately naive. For that, perfect. Beautiful like a single, simple flower petal that gains nothing by description, but could inspire years of reflection. ]]></body>
    
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