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. Their friend Albert is luckier, living in Druid's Bottom with warm-hearted Hepzibah Green and the strange Mister Johnny, who can talk to animals but not to human beings. Carrie and Nick visit him there whenever they can for Hepzibah makes life ...
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Binding: Library Binding
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Date published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780397314508ISBN:0397314507
Description: Acceptable. MAY HAVE COVER WEAR, SPINE CREASES, HIGHLIGHTING, UNDERLINING & PAGES YELLOWED FROM AGE. FASTER SERVICE FROM US! ! ! read more
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Date published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780397314508ISBN:0397314507
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
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Date published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780397314508ISBN:0397314507
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
Binding: Audiobook cassette
Publisher: Cover to Cover Cassettes
ISBN-13:9780140881998ISBN:0140881999
Description: Good in good packaging. Ex-library. Tapes play perfectly, gently used. Ex-library set, withdrawn from collection. Unabridged, on 3 cassettes. Library stamps and stickers; wear to the case. read more
Edition: Large type / large print.
Publisher: G. K. Hall & Company
Date published: 1973
ISBN-13:9780816163557ISBN:0816163553
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
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Date published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780397314508ISBN:0397314507
Description: Good. Book shows minor use. Cover and Binding have minimal wear and the pages have only minimal creases. A tradition of southern quality and service. All books guaranteed at the Atlanta Book Company. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Date published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780397314508ISBN:0397314507
Description: Fair. Ex-Library book-will contain library markings. A tradition of southern quality and service. All books guaranteed at the Atlanta Book Company. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
Date published: 1973
ISBN-13:9780397314508ISBN:0397314507
Description: Very good. No dust jacket. CAME FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION. COVERS HAVE MINOR EDGE AND CORNER WEAR. BINDING IS TIGHT. STORY PAGES ARE FREE FROM MARKS AND TEARS. read more
"Another great book! I loved everything about this children's classic - the exotic names of the characters (Albert Sandwich who does not like any derivative of his name - so, no calling him Bertie, Jam/Jelly or Peanut Butter Sandwich; thank you! And, there is Mrs. Gotobed (that's the best one!), the magical realism in the story is quite believable, and the setting (Wales during WWII) all worked to win me over.
Here's a secret, too - this is way better than that old Harry Potter! I will be giving this one to my 10-year for his reading enjoyment.
Go, run and see if you can snag a copy at your local library. Better yet, buy yourself a copy - you won't regret it!"
"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."
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