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pageb's review against another edition
4.0
Very cute story. I loved the quirky characters and the quest they all take in order to find a home.
hsquared's review against another edition
3.0
When a diphtheria epidemic breaks out in their home town, three adolescents--Cissy, Kookie, and Tibbie are sent out of town in hopes that they can escape the deadly disease. They join up with the Bright Lights Theater Company, traveling down the river in a dilapidated show boat with hopes of fame and fortune.
This was a fun book with lots of quirky characters. In fact, I struggled at the beginning trying to keep straight all the different characters, a task which would probably have been easier had I read The Train Stops, which precedes this novel. The story drags a bit at the beginning, but once it gets going, moves along nicely.
This was a fun book with lots of quirky characters. In fact, I struggled at the beginning trying to keep straight all the different characters, a task which would probably have been easier had I read The Train Stops, which precedes this novel. The story drags a bit at the beginning, but once it gets going, moves along nicely.
finkaaa's review against another edition
1.0
This was a very boring book. I don't know if it was because I didn't read the first book in the Cissy Sissney series or what, but I got through the first 2 chapters and was so bored.
pussreboots's review against another edition
5.0
The Glorious Adventures of the Sunshine Queen by Geraldine McCaughrean is the sequel to Stop That Train but it can read as a stand alone. Cissy and some of her Olive, Oklahoma classmates are sent to the care of their former school teacher during a diphtheria outbreak.
The cover art depicts a fairly early scene in the book, the arrival of the children to the paddle wheel. It washed ashore in a disused pasture where it has lain unclaimed. The acting troop is hiding out there while they try to figure out how to get one of their actors out of jail on an obscenity charge (for quoting Shakespeare).
Most of the book, though, have adventures along the Missouri river. The humor relies on an ensemble cast of unusual characters, outlandish but still somewhat plausible situations and a wild and oft-times dangerous setting.
The timing of the story is never completely pinned down but there are enough hints to place it with in the last decade of the 19th century. The two biggest clues are the off handed comment that the last time a judge had shown up was 1891 and the fact that Queen Victoria is still the reigning monarch of United Kingdom.
Although The Glorious Adventures of the Sunshine Queen starts slow and has a large enough cast to require its own dramatis personae broken up by section, it ends up being a very entertaining turn of the century romp. I am now planning to go back and read Stop That Train.
The cover art depicts a fairly early scene in the book, the arrival of the children to the paddle wheel. It washed ashore in a disused pasture where it has lain unclaimed. The acting troop is hiding out there while they try to figure out how to get one of their actors out of jail on an obscenity charge (for quoting Shakespeare).
Most of the book, though, have adventures along the Missouri river. The humor relies on an ensemble cast of unusual characters, outlandish but still somewhat plausible situations and a wild and oft-times dangerous setting.
The timing of the story is never completely pinned down but there are enough hints to place it with in the last decade of the 19th century. The two biggest clues are the off handed comment that the last time a judge had shown up was 1891 and the fact that Queen Victoria is still the reigning monarch of United Kingdom.
Although The Glorious Adventures of the Sunshine Queen starts slow and has a large enough cast to require its own dramatis personae broken up by section, it ends up being a very entertaining turn of the century romp. I am now planning to go back and read Stop That Train.
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