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Miraculous Miranda
I love Miranda and so will you - Eoin Colfer
Miranda has a Big Imagination, and always wins Word of the Day at school. When her sister Gemma is taken into hospital, Miranda escapes into her own fantasy land, Magnanimous. With giraffe police, ham sandwich trees and a Crystal-Clear Glass Hospital for Getting-Better Children, Magnanimous grows and grows. As her sister gets worse, things Miranda writes seem to trigger small miracles she has been asking for: her gran stops smoking, horrible Darren Hoey is nice to her ... Can Miranda write a miracle for her sister?
Miranda has a Big Imagination, and always wins Word of the Day at school. When her sister Gemma is taken into hospital, Miranda escapes into her own fantasy land, Magnanimous. With giraffe police, ham sandwich trees and a Crystal-Clear Glass Hospital for Getting-Better Children, Magnanimous grows and grows. As her sister gets worse, things Miranda writes seem to trigger small miracles she has been asking for: her gran stops smoking, horrible Darren Hoey is nice to her ... Can Miranda write a miracle for her sister?
160 pages, Hardcover
First published September 8, 2016
About the author
Siobhán Parkinson
63 books24 followersSiobhán Parkinson is an Irish writer for both children and adults. Siobhán grew up in Galway and Donegal. Her books have won numerous awards and have been translated into several languages. She is currently a co-editor of Bookbird, the magazine of international children's literature organsation IBBY. She resides in The Republic of Ireland with her husband Roger Bennett and son Matthew.
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June 12, 2019
If there ever was a delightful and very touching story, written in the first person, in the voice of a child whose' Sister is ill, is this one! The imaginary of this child is full of resourceful words and ideas, her creativity gets her the means to make real miracles happen! Worth reading, very touching and really beautiful.
Maria Carmo,
Lisbon, 12 June 2019.
Maria Carmo,
Lisbon, 12 June 2019.
March 16, 2020
Miracolele Mirandei este o gură de aer proaspăt, un scuturat sănătos administrat de cei care ne pot readuce aminte de miracole și de cum am putea să ne bucurăm de ele. După Ethan, cel care am fost nu eram gata să mă întorc în lumea gri a oamenilor mari. Nu voiam să dau piept cu realitatea acestor zile. Am desenat un curcubeu cu fetele mele, am răsfoit cărțile din bibliotecă și am decis că întotdeauna avem nevoie de un miracol, dar mai ales acum. Și am știut că numai o carte pentru copii mi l-ar oferi și mi-ar da încredere că #totulvafibine.
Miranda este e explozie solară. Un copil luminos, perseverent, încrezător și încântător. Nici nu îți dă voie să te gândești la problemele ei. Pare mereu gata să înfrunte totul cu zâmbetul pe buze. Are și un loc special pe care l-a creat tocmai pentru a uita de realitate: un tărâm în care poveștile nu se termină niciodată. Poveștile sunt cele care ne dau speranță, cele care ne permit să ne izolăm sufletul și să ne pierdem pașii pentru câteva clipe de relaxare totală. Câte avem de învățat de la copii! Și ce bine că avem povești!
Miranda este e explozie solară. Un copil luminos, perseverent, încrezător și încântător. Nici nu îți dă voie să te gândești la problemele ei. Pare mereu gata să înfrunte totul cu zâmbetul pe buze. Are și un loc special pe care l-a creat tocmai pentru a uita de realitate: un tărâm în care poveștile nu se termină niciodată. Poveștile sunt cele care ne dau speranță, cele care ne permit să ne izolăm sufletul și să ne pierdem pașii pentru câteva clipe de relaxare totală. Câte avem de învățat de la copii! Și ce bine că avem povești!
March 5, 2020
O carte emoționantă pentru copii în care autoarea nu se sfiește să abordeze subiecte precum moartea și boala dar dintr-o perspectivă naivă, a copilăriei. Miranda are o soră grav bolnavă, dar părinții nu discută cu ea despre asta. Miranda simte ca are multe de pierdut din cauza bolii surorii, ba chiar i s-a anulat și o petrecere de zi de naștere. E foarte sinceră cu privire la sentimentele ei față de soră: deși o iubește, detestă faptul că nu are parte de atenția părinților, că trebuie să ascundă boala surorii față de prieteni, că nimeni nu discută cu ea și se simte lăsată la o parte.
Sunt sigură că părinții din carte fac tot ce pot, ca orice părinte de copil bolnav + sănătos, însă comunicarea este clar o mare hibă a acestei familii. Nici bunica nu este mai presus, deși ea e cea care are grijă de Miranda mai mereu.
Miranda este foarte inteligentă, cu spirit creativ și cu o pasiune pentru cuvinte și știință, dar ea nu știe să-și gestioneze emoțiile, așa că ajunge să se refugieze într-o lume imaginară în care se petrec tot felul de miracole. Evident, își dorește un miracol și pentru sora ei și, deși miracolele nu se întâmplă exact cum ni le dorim noi, finalul este optimist, cu speranțe pentru viitor.
E o lectură foarte bună pentru toți copiii, însă în special pentru cei care au un frate/soră care are nevoie de mai multă atenție din partea părinților. Și din punctul acesta de vedere e indicată și părinților care trebuie să gestioneze astfel de situații și se simt depășiți uneori.
Sunt sigură că părinții din carte fac tot ce pot, ca orice părinte de copil bolnav + sănătos, însă comunicarea este clar o mare hibă a acestei familii. Nici bunica nu este mai presus, deși ea e cea care are grijă de Miranda mai mereu.
Miranda este foarte inteligentă, cu spirit creativ și cu o pasiune pentru cuvinte și știință, dar ea nu știe să-și gestioneze emoțiile, așa că ajunge să se refugieze într-o lume imaginară în care se petrec tot felul de miracole. Evident, își dorește un miracol și pentru sora ei și, deși miracolele nu se întâmplă exact cum ni le dorim noi, finalul este optimist, cu speranțe pentru viitor.
E o lectură foarte bună pentru toți copiii, însă în special pentru cei care au un frate/soră care are nevoie de mai multă atenție din partea părinților. Și din punctul acesta de vedere e indicată și părinților care trebuie să gestioneze astfel de situații și se simt depășiți uneori.
March 7, 2020
O carte minunată care m-a emoționat și de câteva ori m-a făcut să am ochii umezi. Am avut norocul să o întâlnesc și pe autoare și am simțit și mai bine atmosfera călduroasă pe care o transmite doamna Parkinson.
Miranda este o fetiță a cărei soră e destul de bolnavă, fapt pentru care deseori ea este neglijată de părinți și își petrece timpul cu bunica ei cât timp sora ei e la spital pentru diverse tratamente.
Mi-a plăcut foarte mult cartea deoarece este o combinație perfectă dintre inocența copilăriei și seriozitatea și greutatea vieții adulților.
Recomand cu drag să descoperiți și voi lumea magică a Mirandei și să vedeți dacă născocirile ei vor reuși să facă miracolele ă devină reale!
Miranda este o fetiță a cărei soră e destul de bolnavă, fapt pentru care deseori ea este neglijată de părinți și își petrece timpul cu bunica ei cât timp sora ei e la spital pentru diverse tratamente.
Mi-a plăcut foarte mult cartea deoarece este o combinație perfectă dintre inocența copilăriei și seriozitatea și greutatea vieții adulților.
Recomand cu drag să descoperiți și voi lumea magică a Mirandei și să vedeți dacă născocirile ei vor reuși să facă miracolele ă devină reale!
January 8, 2023
I really enjoyed this book although it was a little bit boring at the start but then it started to become clear what was happening.l started to become excited when Gemma started to have the operation.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
September 7, 2016
Sometimes a book comes along that is just beautiful...this was.
Miranda is a somewhat precocious young girl, used to living in her imagination.
A full review to come when I've properly reflected on this, but it was charming, and I think it would really appeal to the y6-8 readers.
Thank you to NetGalley for the ARC.
Miranda is a somewhat precocious young girl, used to living in her imagination.
A full review to come when I've properly reflected on this, but it was charming, and I think it would really appeal to the y6-8 readers.
Thank you to NetGalley for the ARC.
March 27, 2019
3.5-4 stars b/c we're going to admit my expectations got in the way.
I’m starting to reconsider reading jacket copy or blurbs—though Eoin Colfer is right: I do love Miranda. And I’m going to have to find more of Siobhán Parkinson’s work.
Let’s skip the jacket copy a moment which is [a bit] deceiving and open the book to the first paragraph—which is just as appealing.
“All right, then, I am not going to begin with a whole lot of boring explanations about who I am and what age I am and what my family is like and all that stuff, because I happen to think you can work it out for yourself, as a matter of fact, and if you couldn’t be bothered, well then, that’s your own business and maybe you would be happier reading a different book.”
I immediately knew I would like Miranda.
Miranda as narrator is a nonstop talker. The reader/listener will be taken by the front of the shirt and pulled in by sheer personality. Miranda is energy, imagination, insightful, passionate, and humorous. Her turns of phrase, and the things she has to say about her Gran. The bear she interacts with named Lucy Fur…
We don’t know Miranda’s age, but I was thinking she’s at least past age 8 because of the Tooth Fairy conversation. The marvelous thing about not knowing Miranda’s age is that it was hard to nail down an expectation for her behavior. Were her actions, thought processes, emotions, due to age; average, developmental delays or advancements? Miranda isn’t her age or appearance; she is more than those things. Neither is COR limited to girly-girl activity. And why can’t boys (ala Darren Hoey) be nice to girls? Siobhán Parkinson works to address the way we set up expectations in a number of ways her young audience can relate to, engaging with ideas of perspective, perception. Expectations are a result of our imagination (or are lack thereof). Is Miranda having this fit or acting this way because why wouldn’t she? I mean, it is true that there is a lot going on, however indirectly stated at times.
We do know that Miranda’s only sibling is 16. Gemma has some serious health issues and is sent to the hospital, taking Miranda’s parents with her and leaving Miranda in the care of her aging, cigarette smoking Gran. “I get landed with Gran. Don’t get me wrong, I love Gran, but she is like orange squash. You need to take her in small doses and dilute her.” Lest we wonder how serious Gemma’s situation is and hoard all our compassion for Miranda, Parkinson offers some sobering turns. Life is complicated and not all together fair. That is why we need Word of the Day and Miranda’s Big Imagination.
“Her name is Miss Lucey, our teacher. That is not her first name. we do not call teachers by their first name in our school, it’s not that kind of school. I know there are schools like that because I have a cousin in Dublin that goes to a school where the teachers have first names. My gran said, “Get away out of that,” when I told her. That means she doesn’t believe you.”
Miss Lucey choose the Word of the Day from student submissions; the author chooses them from her character’s experiences. Similarly, Miranda will share writing assignments and while she will use her imagination to construct them, the fantastical elements don’t arrive there from nowhere.
“The people there [Magnanimous] speak different kinds of Music. Different kinds of people speak different kinds of Music, like the granddads speak Adagio and the toddlers speak Allegretto and the dogs speak Pianissimo, which is a very good language for dogs, because it means extremely quietly and dogs do mostly need to pipe down, right?”
“You mean, those Italian words they write on music to tell you how to play it?” [COR] said. (She learns piano. As well as playing football [soccer]. She is very busy. I don’t seem to have time for things like that.) “Those are the languages that people speak in this mad place of yours with the glass hospital?”
“Yes,” I said.
“Why?” she said.
“No why,” I said. “Just because.”
My dad taught me those words…
This book is Miranda through and through—and she may or may not be reliable as narrator. While Miranda often translates her Gran (and others) for us, who will translate Miranda?
Her best friend COR (aka Caroline O’Rourke) doesn’t know how to read her. She does know that something is off with Miranda, but she comes to believe something is wrong with Gran. Miranda’s essay on lung cancer and the application of “succumb” doesn’t help. The problem is that Miranda is discouraged from talking about the problems in their family. But a generous act on COR and Darren Hoey’s part will force the issue…an unexpected consequence of Miranda’s Imagination and Vocabulary.
That’s the thing about imaginations, words, and miracles: it’s hard to always anticipate their consequences. And it’s hard to know if their intended consequence will work: like whether the story of Magnanimous will result in a miracle for Gemma. “Can Miranda write a miracle for her sister?”–jacket copy.
"Miranda has a Big Imagination, and always wins Word of the Day at school. When her sister Gemma is taken into hospital, Miranda escapes into her own fantasy land, Magnanimous. With giraffe police, ham sandwich trees and a Crystal-Clear Glass Hospital for Getting-Better Children, Magnanimous grows and grows. As her sister gets worse, things Miranda writes seem to trigger small miracles she has been asking for: her gran stops smoking, horrible Darren Hoey is nice to her … Can Miranda write a miracle for her sister?" –jacket copy
So where does the magical land of Magnanimous (as promised by the jacket copy) enter in? Magnanimous does appear after “when her sister Gemma is taken into hospital,” but so does the entirety of the novel. We learn that Magnanimous is a place Miranda has be constructing using “fantasy geography,” filling COR in on it between schooldays and evenings with Gran and telephoned and text-messaged updates on Gemma’s condition.
When I read the book description, I was immediately drawn to this fantasy land. I love whimsical things. And I love the meld of magic and the real. I wondered if it would share similarities with Iain Lawrence’s The Giant Slayer, where a gifted storyteller is able to transform reality through the fantasy they’ve constructed. Siobhán Parkinson does this…and she doesn’t. The reader will find themselves in/on Magnanimous eventually, but it’s the journey up to that point that creates its meaningfulness. It seems Parkinson isn’t just into whimsy for the sake of charming her reader, it isn’t a special flavoring, it’s kind of the point.
We often talk about fantasies as places to escape, rarely do we view them as extensions of ourselves. That imaginations are a place where our experiences are re/visited; an expression as a mechanism for coping with what is all too real. It fills in blanks. It projects our needs and desires. It’s another part of the world and body we live in.
Miranda’s experiences will influence her imagination in Miraculous Miranda. And her imagination will influence her reality as well; primarily, as a result of her writing.
When her teacher instructs the class to write about their pets, Miranda points out that she doesn’t have a pet. Miss Lucey then reminds her of her Big Imagination and invites her to write as if she has a pet. Miranda chooses chickens, and guess what happens: 3 chicks show up on the doorstep. Inspired by her gran’s phrasing, she names them Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. And this isn’t even the first small miracle she witnesses (and will later track in a chart and share with the reader). Miranda begins to wonder, and so will the reader.
It’s rumored that imaginations can be powerful things. I’ve heard it is, I’ve probably told others. If an imagination is big enough, could it result in something (or someone) miraculous?
Miranda has a Big Imagination, her teacher Miss Lucey has told her so. Miss Lucey also told her that miracles aren’t only defined by Bible stories. Here’s the conversation as related to a class reading of a portion of “The Jumblies” by Edward Lear:
Miss Lucey said it’s a miracle. I thought a miracle was like when Jesus raises Lazarus from the dead. I don’t’ think it could be about a sieve that doesn’t sink, but the teacher says it’s a different kind of miracle.
“What kind?” I asked.
[…]
“It’s when something is impossible,” Miss Lucey said, “but still you can imagine it.”
Miranda believes it impossible that her classmate Darren Hoey can be nice, but the application of her imagination in the story allows for more possibility, not just in outcome, but how she perceives and interacts with him. But has he changed, or is he more like Gran and her quitting smoking: relapsing off-camera. Just who and what are changed by Miranda’s imagination?
Miranda and the reader begin to wonder not only about the power of the imagination, but power of belief. Miranda will revisit her ‘miracles’ conversation with Miss Lucey:
“That’s not right though, It’s when something is impossible but you can believe it anyway.”
“Well,” said Miss Lucey, “that might be a better definition. But the important thing is, you have to have the imagination to make miracles happen, Miranda. That is really all you need.”
Like I said, grown-ups talk in riddles."
How we read that ending is going to rely on our belief as to whether Miranda’s imaginative storytelling will have a miraculous effect.
Words and Imaginations and Young People can be Powerful, but are they Miraculous? In Parkinson’s novel, they are. Miranda keeps a chart to track and record miracles, a reader could do the same for all the ways in which words and imaginations and young people save a life in both small and significant ways throughout the novel. It may just come in the form of a candy bar instead of sandwich-bearing tree; or it could be both in the hands of an imaginative writer like Siobhán Parkinson.
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I’m starting to reconsider reading jacket copy or blurbs—though Eoin Colfer is right: I do love Miranda. And I’m going to have to find more of Siobhán Parkinson’s work.
Let’s skip the jacket copy a moment which is [a bit] deceiving and open the book to the first paragraph—which is just as appealing.
“All right, then, I am not going to begin with a whole lot of boring explanations about who I am and what age I am and what my family is like and all that stuff, because I happen to think you can work it out for yourself, as a matter of fact, and if you couldn’t be bothered, well then, that’s your own business and maybe you would be happier reading a different book.”
I immediately knew I would like Miranda.
Miranda as narrator is a nonstop talker. The reader/listener will be taken by the front of the shirt and pulled in by sheer personality. Miranda is energy, imagination, insightful, passionate, and humorous. Her turns of phrase, and the things she has to say about her Gran. The bear she interacts with named Lucy Fur…
We don’t know Miranda’s age, but I was thinking she’s at least past age 8 because of the Tooth Fairy conversation. The marvelous thing about not knowing Miranda’s age is that it was hard to nail down an expectation for her behavior. Were her actions, thought processes, emotions, due to age; average, developmental delays or advancements? Miranda isn’t her age or appearance; she is more than those things. Neither is COR limited to girly-girl activity. And why can’t boys (ala Darren Hoey) be nice to girls? Siobhán Parkinson works to address the way we set up expectations in a number of ways her young audience can relate to, engaging with ideas of perspective, perception. Expectations are a result of our imagination (or are lack thereof). Is Miranda having this fit or acting this way because why wouldn’t she? I mean, it is true that there is a lot going on, however indirectly stated at times.
We do know that Miranda’s only sibling is 16. Gemma has some serious health issues and is sent to the hospital, taking Miranda’s parents with her and leaving Miranda in the care of her aging, cigarette smoking Gran. “I get landed with Gran. Don’t get me wrong, I love Gran, but she is like orange squash. You need to take her in small doses and dilute her.” Lest we wonder how serious Gemma’s situation is and hoard all our compassion for Miranda, Parkinson offers some sobering turns. Life is complicated and not all together fair. That is why we need Word of the Day and Miranda’s Big Imagination.
“Her name is Miss Lucey, our teacher. That is not her first name. we do not call teachers by their first name in our school, it’s not that kind of school. I know there are schools like that because I have a cousin in Dublin that goes to a school where the teachers have first names. My gran said, “Get away out of that,” when I told her. That means she doesn’t believe you.”
Miss Lucey choose the Word of the Day from student submissions; the author chooses them from her character’s experiences. Similarly, Miranda will share writing assignments and while she will use her imagination to construct them, the fantastical elements don’t arrive there from nowhere.
“The people there [Magnanimous] speak different kinds of Music. Different kinds of people speak different kinds of Music, like the granddads speak Adagio and the toddlers speak Allegretto and the dogs speak Pianissimo, which is a very good language for dogs, because it means extremely quietly and dogs do mostly need to pipe down, right?”
“You mean, those Italian words they write on music to tell you how to play it?” [COR] said. (She learns piano. As well as playing football [soccer]. She is very busy. I don’t seem to have time for things like that.) “Those are the languages that people speak in this mad place of yours with the glass hospital?”
“Yes,” I said.
“Why?” she said.
“No why,” I said. “Just because.”
My dad taught me those words…
This book is Miranda through and through—and she may or may not be reliable as narrator. While Miranda often translates her Gran (and others) for us, who will translate Miranda?
Her best friend COR (aka Caroline O’Rourke) doesn’t know how to read her. She does know that something is off with Miranda, but she comes to believe something is wrong with Gran. Miranda’s essay on lung cancer and the application of “succumb” doesn’t help. The problem is that Miranda is discouraged from talking about the problems in their family. But a generous act on COR and Darren Hoey’s part will force the issue…an unexpected consequence of Miranda’s Imagination and Vocabulary.
That’s the thing about imaginations, words, and miracles: it’s hard to always anticipate their consequences. And it’s hard to know if their intended consequence will work: like whether the story of Magnanimous will result in a miracle for Gemma. “Can Miranda write a miracle for her sister?”–jacket copy.
"Miranda has a Big Imagination, and always wins Word of the Day at school. When her sister Gemma is taken into hospital, Miranda escapes into her own fantasy land, Magnanimous. With giraffe police, ham sandwich trees and a Crystal-Clear Glass Hospital for Getting-Better Children, Magnanimous grows and grows. As her sister gets worse, things Miranda writes seem to trigger small miracles she has been asking for: her gran stops smoking, horrible Darren Hoey is nice to her … Can Miranda write a miracle for her sister?" –jacket copy
So where does the magical land of Magnanimous (as promised by the jacket copy) enter in? Magnanimous does appear after “when her sister Gemma is taken into hospital,” but so does the entirety of the novel. We learn that Magnanimous is a place Miranda has be constructing using “fantasy geography,” filling COR in on it between schooldays and evenings with Gran and telephoned and text-messaged updates on Gemma’s condition.
When I read the book description, I was immediately drawn to this fantasy land. I love whimsical things. And I love the meld of magic and the real. I wondered if it would share similarities with Iain Lawrence’s The Giant Slayer, where a gifted storyteller is able to transform reality through the fantasy they’ve constructed. Siobhán Parkinson does this…and she doesn’t. The reader will find themselves in/on Magnanimous eventually, but it’s the journey up to that point that creates its meaningfulness. It seems Parkinson isn’t just into whimsy for the sake of charming her reader, it isn’t a special flavoring, it’s kind of the point.
We often talk about fantasies as places to escape, rarely do we view them as extensions of ourselves. That imaginations are a place where our experiences are re/visited; an expression as a mechanism for coping with what is all too real. It fills in blanks. It projects our needs and desires. It’s another part of the world and body we live in.
Miranda’s experiences will influence her imagination in Miraculous Miranda. And her imagination will influence her reality as well; primarily, as a result of her writing.
When her teacher instructs the class to write about their pets, Miranda points out that she doesn’t have a pet. Miss Lucey then reminds her of her Big Imagination and invites her to write as if she has a pet. Miranda chooses chickens, and guess what happens: 3 chicks show up on the doorstep. Inspired by her gran’s phrasing, she names them Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. And this isn’t even the first small miracle she witnesses (and will later track in a chart and share with the reader). Miranda begins to wonder, and so will the reader.
It’s rumored that imaginations can be powerful things. I’ve heard it is, I’ve probably told others. If an imagination is big enough, could it result in something (or someone) miraculous?
Miranda has a Big Imagination, her teacher Miss Lucey has told her so. Miss Lucey also told her that miracles aren’t only defined by Bible stories. Here’s the conversation as related to a class reading of a portion of “The Jumblies” by Edward Lear:
Miss Lucey said it’s a miracle. I thought a miracle was like when Jesus raises Lazarus from the dead. I don’t’ think it could be about a sieve that doesn’t sink, but the teacher says it’s a different kind of miracle.
“What kind?” I asked.
[…]
“It’s when something is impossible,” Miss Lucey said, “but still you can imagine it.”
Miranda believes it impossible that her classmate Darren Hoey can be nice, but the application of her imagination in the story allows for more possibility, not just in outcome, but how she perceives and interacts with him. But has he changed, or is he more like Gran and her quitting smoking: relapsing off-camera. Just who and what are changed by Miranda’s imagination?
Miranda and the reader begin to wonder not only about the power of the imagination, but power of belief. Miranda will revisit her ‘miracles’ conversation with Miss Lucey:
“That’s not right though, It’s when something is impossible but you can believe it anyway.”
“Well,” said Miss Lucey, “that might be a better definition. But the important thing is, you have to have the imagination to make miracles happen, Miranda. That is really all you need.”
Like I said, grown-ups talk in riddles."
How we read that ending is going to rely on our belief as to whether Miranda’s imaginative storytelling will have a miraculous effect.
Words and Imaginations and Young People can be Powerful, but are they Miraculous? In Parkinson’s novel, they are. Miranda keeps a chart to track and record miracles, a reader could do the same for all the ways in which words and imaginations and young people save a life in both small and significant ways throughout the novel. It may just come in the form of a candy bar instead of sandwich-bearing tree; or it could be both in the hands of an imaginative writer like Siobhán Parkinson.
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August 23, 2016
4.25 stars
August 30, 2016
Really lovely little book. Adored every minute of it. Highly recommended.
March 14, 2021
MIRACOLELE MIRANDEI -SIOBHÁN PARKINSON
💜RATING: 3,5⭐/5⭐(NOTA 6)
💜MUSIC: SIA - MIRACLE
✒Trecând peste faptul că această autoare are numele Parkinson (cred că în țara ei nu are semnificația bolii așa cum e la noi🤔), cartea a fost drăguță.
✒E un middle grade de 155 de pagini, pe care l-am citit dintr-o "mișcare". E scrisă sub formă de "Dragă jurnalule" de către Miranda, protagonista noastră, care este o fetiță cu o imaginație bogată, isteață și amuzantă fără să vrea.
✒Ea ne relatează unele lecții de la școală pe care le trece prin filtrul imaginației ei, ne descrie un poiect numit "Geografia fantastică" în care își inventează propriul oraș într-un mod foarte ingenios, și ne povestește cum trece printr-o traumă din familie.
✒E o carte pentru orice vârstă, care m-a făcut să cred că dacă vom lăsa vreodată un copil ca Miranda, să facă designul unui spital, ar face o capodoperă în care oamenii bolnavi se vor simți mai bine.
✒Voi păstra această carte pentru băiețelul meu, să o citească și el la vârsta potrivită.
💜RATING: 3,5⭐/5⭐(NOTA 6)
💜MUSIC: SIA - MIRACLE
✒Trecând peste faptul că această autoare are numele Parkinson (cred că în țara ei nu are semnificația bolii așa cum e la noi🤔), cartea a fost drăguță.
✒E un middle grade de 155 de pagini, pe care l-am citit dintr-o "mișcare". E scrisă sub formă de "Dragă jurnalule" de către Miranda, protagonista noastră, care este o fetiță cu o imaginație bogată, isteață și amuzantă fără să vrea.
✒Ea ne relatează unele lecții de la școală pe care le trece prin filtrul imaginației ei, ne descrie un poiect numit "Geografia fantastică" în care își inventează propriul oraș într-un mod foarte ingenios, și ne povestește cum trece printr-o traumă din familie.
✒E o carte pentru orice vârstă, care m-a făcut să cred că dacă vom lăsa vreodată un copil ca Miranda, să facă designul unui spital, ar face o capodoperă în care oamenii bolnavi se vor simți mai bine.
✒Voi păstra această carte pentru băiețelul meu, să o citească și el la vârsta potrivită.
September 11, 2017
A beautiful story that celebrates the power of imagination and storytelling. The writing is stunning, unsurprisingly as Siobhan Parkinson was Ireland's first Children's Laureate. There are some wonderful characters and friendships that will really appeal to middle grade readers. What I particularly liked was that Miranda's sister's illness is never fully labelled, leaving it open for more children to directly associate with. This book is filled with positivity and passion and a child's hope. Just stunning.
February 28, 2019
It was quite aventerous how she took what was happening in her own life and put it into the place she had written about and has created like when her sister is I'll and in hospital she makes a hospital in her imagenery place with stuff that makes it more fun and with knife s that are made out of ice so when they cut the knife melts .
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July 30, 2019
Great voice, and a compelling story of a girl who needs a miracle. Miranda keeps a record of the small miracles she envisions in her daily life, both successful and unsuccessful, and wonders how she might help her gravely ill sister.
August 4, 2017
loved Miranda and her quirky, imaginative personality. I could see some of the phrases/colloquialisms being tough for young readers to understand, but otherwise it was a miraculous ;) book.
January 6, 2019
I loved this book! It was creative, sweet and I liked every second of it. Police giraffes are definitely an added plus!
March 14, 2019
Charming. Perfect for kids coping with the illness of a sibling or anyone, really.
July 5, 2019
I think Miraculous Miranda is a wonderful book. I like how creative Miranda is, I also like how much detail this story has I would recommend this to anyone who likes creativity.
November 9, 2019
OK not the best
October 14, 2016
Such a well written book from the point of view of a young girl with a sick sister. The language and the characterisation are great. I especially liked the bonkers Granny - reminds me of my own mother at times. The world she creates in her imagination is just wonderful. I would definitely recommend this for any age.
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