mangofandango 's review for:

The Penderwicks at Point Mouette by Jeanne Birdsall

5.0

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I was a little disappointed at the beginning to find that this story would focus in on only some of the Penderwicks, but it turns out that that was a perfectly pleasing focus once things got going. I have to say, the big reveal in this book could be considered unbelievable, as could all of the major connections in this series. But one of the professional reviews of the book (I think I saw it on the back of the book?) names why this has always worked perfectly well for me - these books have ancestors in L.M. Montgomery and similar stories where this is just how things work, and it fits right in with its predecessors in that way. I loved similar stories as a child, and I still love them now. There's a beauty and a comfort to these books, but I think they are more than comfort food. They aren't realism, but they are purely Stories, in an almost elemental way, while being set in the present and being about things that could really happen. I don't know whether that makes sense...but that's how they feel to me.

I'm sad that there is only one left in this series.