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The Serial Garden: The Complete Armitage Family Stories (2008)

by Joan Aiken(Favorite Author)

4.19 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1931520577 (ISBN13: 9781931520577)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Big Mouth House

review 1: While other girls were reading Judy Blume and Beverly Cleary, I was reading Joan Aiken and Madeline L'Engle. The real life girls and their problems with periods and big sisters were all very well, and I enjoyed reading about them, but the girls and boys with pet unicorns and the ability to travel in time, well. They added something to my life I didn't have to worry about. Their's was a world I could escape into and forget all about the horrors of middle school. So it was nice to see that all of the Armitage Family stories had been collected, and I could escape being a Mom and be that 12/13 year old girl again for a couple of days, The stories, which Aiken began writing in the fifties, hold up, they don't feel dated, and I was never bored or felt like the stories, in which ... morethe fantastical can at time be fun and escapist, but at others dark and threatening, were talking down to their audience. People and animals die, are threatened. People steal, and cheat. But they also have ghosts for godparents, ride unicorns, and never have a boring life. And that's good reading, at any age.
review 2: This book is full from cover to cover with funny, magical tales safe for the whole family. I started reading a few of the stories to my brothers, and they loved it. The only scary story is the one about "Kitty Snickersee," which was very dark and morbid for an Armitage story and I'm not sure why it was so heavy. Nonetheless, the rest of these stories are a welcome break from heavier reading and I would recommend it to...well, everyone. less

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