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4.11 AVERAGE
4.11 AVERAGE
This was our January 5th/6th grader book club book and I absolutely loved, loved, loved it! Favorite book club book so far, for sure!
adventurous
I don’t read many middle-grade books, and I have no clue how this one ended up on my radar, but I liked it. Thank you to whoever recommended it. It’s a solid story of magic and love and learning about yourself. It has a Grace Year for younger readers vibe (and I loved The Grace Year). It would be a great vocabulary builder for an upper elementary kiddo who is a strong reader too. It’s longer than need be though, so they’d have to have a strong attention span.
slow-paced
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
hopeful
inspiring
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
4 ½ stars
I was looking for something magical, cozy and sweet, and this is exactly what I got. 'The girl who drank the moon' is a beautiful story with a vast array of interesting characters. It's set in a world where there is a city, covered in mist, called 'The Protectorate' and every year a child is sacrificed to the terrible witch in the woods to keep her at bay. The truth is, she is not terrible at all, she has been rescuing these kids, who had been left to starve in the woods. This time, however, she accidentally enmagics a girl and decides to keep her as her own granddaughter, raising her in the woods with the help of a tiny dragon and a bog monster called Glerk.
There's adventure, danger, magic, secrets, cute vibes and so much more packed into every chapter of this book. I just loved every second of it.
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Love the writing and imagination. A great read for lovers of children's literature and/or for children. The story is well placed for 8-10 year old (magic, heroine, etc) and uses a more sophisticated vocabulary, encouraging children to expand their (vocabulary).
What a disappointing, dull, pretentious book. So much space taken up by bad poetry and unnecessary repetition that could have been used for...I don't know...characterization? World building? Anything more interesting than confusing, boring prose and metaphors that don't actually mean anything? She should have listened to her own character, Glerk's injunction to "Speak in complete sentences, please." And yet. Every page. Every word. Words on pages, pages of words, were filled with nothing but fluff and shadows of what could have been a truly awesome story.
This read like a first draft, honestly. Something she dictated on the fly, and packed with so much flowery language that everyone must have thought "wow, this must be good, because it's so beyond comprehension."
Knowing this won the Newbery Award is annoying. This is a book only stuck-up adults would appreciate. There are so many richer and more engaging fantasy books for kids.
This read like a first draft, honestly. Something she dictated on the fly, and packed with so much flowery language that everyone must have thought "wow, this must be good, because it's so beyond comprehension."
Knowing this won the Newbery Award is annoying. This is a book only stuck-up adults would appreciate. There are so many richer and more engaging fantasy books for kids.
A lyrical book about a girl discovering who she really is - more than one, really.
3.5 stars - Fantastic premise and story, but a lot of repetition and no plot surprises. Either entire plot and end resolution is guessable from the first 10% of the book. I still enjoyed reading it, but felt it could have been about 1/3 shorter.