The faithless lollybird

By Joan Aiken

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385130732
• ISBN13: 9780385130738
• Release Date: January 1978
• Publisher: Doubleday
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

The Faithless Lollybird

This book is excellent! It makes a great read wherever you go and for whatever mood you're in . . . !

Most favorite book of my entire childhood

What is up with this world that this book has been out of print for thirty years? I used to check this out from the library every other time I went to the library. I must have read it once a month for years. I feel emotional just thinking about the stories. "Sleep child, on my knee, your mother is an apple tree, your father is a fall of rain, sleep, child, sleep again." The little boy who was raised by an old granny, and that was the lullaby that she sang to him. He believed it and had a tree in the orchard that he particularly loved, that he thought was his mother. At night, when it would rain, he would think, "Now my mother and father are talking, and she is telling him about me." When he grew to be a man the old woman revealed to him that he was actually a prince, and that he had been sent out of the kingdom in times of war for fear of his life. Now the war had been won and it was time for him to come back and rule. Well, the tree almost died from missing him so much. I can't really remember the rest but take my word for this, get this book for your kid or for yourself, you will not regret it.