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this may be the best book for kids ever written. it teaches young girls everything they will ever need to know in their resourceful lives: how to build a fence out of whale bones, how to kill giant squids, how to alternately befriend and defend against scary wild dogs, and how to make skirts from cormorant feathers. since i got kicked out of brownies and never got to learn All The Things That Girl Scouts Learn, this book taught me how to wilderness-survive. and now i live in queens. so - not muc
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Although this was a survival story of a self-sufficient girl, while I was reading it and in memory, I remember I felt incredibly lonely for her. I felt so lonely and sad that I was not able to truly enjoy the story. I liked it but couldn’t love it. Maybe that’s a good recommendation for how the story was so beautifully told, but I can’t give it more than 3 stars.
I *loved* this book when I was little.
Oh, I LOVED this book as a kid.
May 21, 2007
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Jun 16, 2014
Jennifer
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