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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
by Kate Douglas Wiggin
DNF
Pages read 50/309
I grew up watching Shirly Temple movies with my Grandmother. One of those movies was Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, which does appear to be an adaptation of this novel. Why it is labeled that, I do not know because they have almost nothing in common save for the title and the characters' names. This makes it hard for me to rate this book fairly because I don't know how much I'm biased by the differences. I don't have strong memories of the movie, I actually had to stop and look up the plot when I got to page 50 of this book because I was trying to remember why I liked the movie when the book was so dull.
The answer is that the movie is about a little girl who won a singing competition, but then went missing due to unfortunate miscommunication and wound up living with her aunt. The book is a plot-lite, slice-of-life book about a little girl going to live with her aunts because her widowed mother has too many mouths to feed. There is no singing competition or really any driving conflict other than everyone loving Rebecca. Everyone, that is, but her aunt. But it's not like her aunt is terrible to Rebecca. At least, she's not in the bit I've read and I'm not interested in reading more. I'm not remotely engaged by the text or interested in the rather dull characters, so I'm DFNing this one.
Fellow Shirly Temple fans should probably steer clear of this one, too, as it's going to be a letdown if you're expecting anything even remotely similar to the movie. I'm not sure who I'd recommend it to as I think a lot of other books - such as Anne of Green Gables - did this premise better.
Pages read 50/309
I grew up watching Shirly Temple movies with my Grandmother. One of those movies was Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, which does appear to be an adaptation of this novel. Why it is labeled that, I do not know because they have almost nothing in common save for the title and the characters' names. This makes it hard for me to rate this book fairly because I don't know how much I'm biased by the differences. I don't have strong memories of the movie, I actually had to stop and look up the plot when I got to page 50 of this book because I was trying to remember why I liked the movie when the book was so dull.
The answer is that the movie is about a little girl who won a singing competition, but then went missing due to unfortunate miscommunication and wound up living with her aunt. The book is a plot-lite, slice-of-life book about a little girl going to live with her aunts because her widowed mother has too many mouths to feed. There is no singing competition or really any driving conflict other than everyone loving Rebecca. Everyone, that is, but her aunt. But it's not like her aunt is terrible to Rebecca. At least, she's not in the bit I've read and I'm not interested in reading more. I'm not remotely engaged by the text or interested in the rather dull characters, so I'm DFNing this one.
Fellow Shirly Temple fans should probably steer clear of this one, too, as it's going to be a letdown if you're expecting anything even remotely similar to the movie. I'm not sure who I'd recommend it to as I think a lot of other books - such as Anne of Green Gables - did this premise better.