Castaways on Long Ago

by Edward Ormondroyd

Book Overview

Castaways on Long Ago is a newly illustrated edition of this adventure set on a deserted island. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0971461287
• ISBN13: 9780971461284
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Green Mansion Press
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.2" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 10 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 5

Customer Reviews

Charming

As relates to the other stories by Edward Ormondroyd, this isn't quite as good as David and The Phoenix, which is sort of like saying I prefer french silk chocolate to vanilla bean ice cream. Also, by that standard, would have to give an unallowable number of stars to David and the Phoenix. Hope to see more of Ormodroyd. A lot more!

Castaways On Long Ago

I read the book called Castaways On Long Ago by Edward Ormondroyd.I really liked this book.Well I really all mystery books.Here's a sumery of the book.Three kids named Linda,Richard ,and Dudley Waite are staying on a farm while there parents went away for their work.While at the farm the kids are playing around and then wanted to go for a swim and they were told no that they couldn't go swimming.They asked why and the women who owns the island said that if she lets them go for a swim then she'll have to let everyone in the town go for a swim.Then the kids asked why that's such a bad thing and she said because people will swim to that island and that is not aloud and that's that!!!!!! The kids got very suspicious.So that same day they asked a man about it and he was no help.So they went to bed.The next day they see a boy waving them to the island.So they sneek to the island.When they got there knowone was there.So they searched and searched.Finally,they don't find a boy but a goast.

Not precisely what the title implies

I expected this to be another of Ormondroyd's excellent time travel books, like Time at the Top. Instead, it's a somewhat metaphysical tale, with rather less meat than most of his books - but still quite enjoyable to those who love old-style children's literature.Three children - Linda, Richard, and Dudley - are making a stay in the countryside. When they spy an island, they are told that the place is forbidden, as is the lake that surrounds it; it's all the property of an old lady whose son died in a freak accident on the lake 50 years ago. The children name the island "Long Ago," and, led on by mysterious invitations, plot to get there, where they find both answers and danger. About 75% of the book concerns the kids' plans to get to the island, most of them abortive, which probably accounts for the slowness of the novel. And the book doesn't make the transition into modern day as well as many of Ormondroyd's; the gender roles become particularly grating after a while, as Linda plays Goodie Two Shoes to Richard's single-minded obsession and Dudley's more rounded character. Still, the book is good fun in an old-fashioned vein, and Ormondroyd fans will probably enjoy it quite a bit.