About this title: Albert, Carrie and young Nick are war-time evacuees whose lives get so tangled up with the people they've come to live among that the war and their real families seem to belong to another world. Carrie and Nick are billeted in Wales with old Mr Evans, who is so mean and cold, and his timid mouse of a sister, Lou, who suddenly starts having secrets ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780397314508ISBN:0397314507
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 159 p. Audience: Children/juvenile. Book and dust jacket are in good condition with reasonable wear. Crisp clean pages, still very usable. Ex-library. May have library related stamps, sticker etc. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780397314508ISBN:0397314507
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Ex-library. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 159 p. Audience: Children/juvenile. Book and dust jacket are in good condition with reasonable wear. Crisp clean pages, still very usable. Ex-library. May have library related stamps, sticker etc. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Date Published: 1980
ISBN-13:9780140055818ISBN:0140055819
Description: A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. Previous owners name inscribed inside front. Book has tanning or browning due to normal aging process. -, Mass Market PaperBack, Very Good / read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
ISBN-13:9780397314508ISBN:0397314507
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
ISBN-13:9780397314508ISBN:0397314507
Description: Fair. Dust Cover Missing. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Acceptable. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
"The book is all right and the author knows how to keep readers hooked but I find difficult to identify with the character of Carrie. Too old-fashioned."
"Reading this book was rather distracting, since some other English Lit student had helpfully annotated it before me. Comments like "she takes refuge in household tasks" and "here gender roles are reasserted" are rather irritating when you're trying to read a book as a child. Carrie's War is set during the World War, and contains little details that place it well in that time -- the gas masks, the trains, the rationing -- in a way that's pretty matter-of-fact. Not "ooh look at me I'm historical fiction", but "this is a story that happens to be set in the World War". I liked the way it was framed by the adult Carrie and her children -- there's realism in the sense of continuity.
It's also very obviously a more modern children's story, since there isn't some big moral front and centre. There's some subtlety in the characters -- you feel a little sorry for Mr Evans, even if he doesn't come across as a very nice man.
And even though it's quite matter-of-fact and realistic, there is magic in it -- in Hepzibah, and in the strange names, and in the Grove and the fragment of skull. Enough that children can find something slightly otherworldly in it, if they want to. I always found magic everywhere like that when I was Carrie and Nick's age."
"I enjoyed it, because Carrie's character wasn't picture perfect, the way numerous characters are in books. It had a real life touch to it, but also had some fantasy feel o it. I felt that it was was an intresting book, and would recommend it."
"Read this for the first time after seeing the play at the West End this summer. The play was so similar and so well-done that I had a hard time separating it from the text as I read. A jewel of a book--tells so much about the war from a child's view, being a child in an adult world, etc."
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