island magic

by Elizabeth Goudge

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• ISBN: B005LELL1M
• Release Date: January 1938
• Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Charming and funny!

What a wonderful book! The characters are so fun an charming and still real. I love Elizabeth Goudge as a child and read this one as an adult. Loved it!

A Top 10 on My List of Favorite Children's Books

Island Magic charmed me to my toes. This book is truly magical as Mrs. Goudge captures her readers and transports them to another time and place. Her writing style, characterization, and plot are all top notch - full of a grace, style, and emotion rarely found in any genre today. I read a library copy about 10 years ago and truly wish it was one of those books I did not return. It would've been worth almost any amount of library fines. Anyway, it's on my Top 10 list along with I Captured the Castle; The Hobbit; and The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe.

Truly Magical

As the first reviewer implied, the images from this book stay with you the rest of your life. You become one of the du Frocq family children and more your own self as a child. This would be in my list of books considered for my top spot; I've had it searched for by used book stores in the past and paid $35-$40 for it.

I love Elizabeth Goudge

If you do to, you will love this. The vision of this island, its flowers, cottages, and town, is clear in my memory though it has been years since I read it. The presence of the sea surrounding everything is powerful. Unlike Linnets and Valerians, this did not scare me as a youngster, when I read it.