{"id":3127,"date":"2005-09-12T11:53:15","date_gmt":"2005-09-12T15:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2005\/09\/12\/3127.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:53:04","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:53:04","slug":"book-report-once-upon-a-marigo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2005\/09\/12\/book-report-once-upon-a-marigo\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Once Upon a Marigold"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I think the reason I picked up Jean Ferris’ Once Upon a Marigold<\/a> off the library shelf was that the library shelf in question was the Nutmeg<\/a> shelf, and on the whole, the Nutmeg seems to be pretty good. If you are keen on children’s books, you might check out the list of state Nutmeg equivalents<\/a>; I imagine it would be interesting to compare the lists one to another.\n

Anyway, this book is the sort of thing I associate more with Eva Ibbotson; a goofy but surprisingly brutal story riffing off our expectations of fairy tales. Yes, the orphaned (sort-of) boy turns out to be of royal blood, but the princess turns out not<\/I> to be of royal blood, and who cares anyway? There’s a very sweet troll who wants to be the tooth fairy, in part so that he can gain recognition from the other trolls for his service to humanity, a matter of great prestige for trolls. There’s a curse, and there’s a flying machine, and there’s a wicked queen, and some very very bad jokes. All in all, this is a solid B+ of a book; it’s good, but not great. If you are shopping for a ten-year-old, and the ten-year-old is a voracious reader and likes fantasy\/fairy tale stuff, and you have run out of ideas, and you really don’t think that she (or I suppose he) is quite ready for Inkheart<\/a>, well, this might hit the spot. I suspect it’s more of a library-recommendation thing; I doubt it’s going to be a read-again-and-again sort of thing. It’s certainly not a why-doesn’t-that-kid-grow-old-enough-to-read-this-one kind of book, like, oh, The Hobbit<\/I> or Eye, Ear, Arm<\/I>. But how many of those are there?\n

chazak, chazak, v’nitchazek<\/I>,
-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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