Gilly's Tower

by Constance Savery and J E Niewenhuis

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0718822803
• ISBN13: 9780718822804
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: Lutterworth Press
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 4.8" x 7.4"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

A simple story, simply told.

A tower has been abandoned near their island home off the Welsh coast, Gilly and Jane have taken possession, and they are the envy of their classmates. Then old, dour Mrs. Daunt appears on the scene with a claim to the tower, a claim that had lost in court years before. Gilly's father is a very important man, and Gilly knows exactly what to do about Mrs. Daunt. There is a sermon in Chapter 4, but Gilly and Jane enjoy it, so why shouldn't we? In 1937 and in 1956, Savery wrote sympathetic essays about "Little Charlie's Life," an illustrated autobiography written around 1830 by a precocious six-year-old. She surely had Charlie in mind when Gilly sits down at the beginning of the book to write "My Life" and gets through four helpful and exciting pages before stopping to paint an illustration of the explosion that nearly cost him his life. Younger children will enjoy this book. So did I, and I haven't been young in a LONG time.