The Girlhood Journeys series is like the American Girls series: several girls, each with books. We read Juliet, Book One, and Marie, Book One. The girls depicted each have a talent or a special animal, from dancing to raptors, but they also are typical growing girls, learning how to be patient along the way. In addition, some surmount obstacles as a result of growing up such as getting lost, but finding their way home again.
Juliet: A Dream Takes Flight, by Anna Kirwan (Aladdin Paperbacks, 1996, ages 7-11, 71pp, $9.99, grades 3-4) Review by Skye Anderson
Juliet, loyal and courageous, and Marguerite, a young lady of the manor, live in medieval England in 1339. One is destined to live a life in court and the other, to become a servant. Best friends, they are nearly of the age to marry but will they have to part ways?
Marie: An Invitation to Dance, by Kathleen Kudlinski (Aladdin Paperbacks, 1996, ages 7-11, 71pp, $8.99)
Marie, a graceful young dancer in the stylish and dangerous city of pre-Revolutionary Paris in 1775 takes dancing lessons and is quite talented but needs a sponsor in order to continue her career path. Read about the trials and tribulations in pre-civil war France of Marie, her best friend Joelle, and a young girl from the American colonies, Prudence.
Both books relate real history of the times in the back of the book, with facts and illustrations.
----------------
Other Girlhood Journeys books include Kai, a determined young girl on an important journey for her Yoruba tribe in southwestern Nigeria in 1440,
Shannon, a lively, spirited Irish immigrant making new friends in bustling Victorian San Francisco of 1880, and
Isabella, in A Wish for Miguel, Peru 1820
No comments:
Post a Comment