Many people comment on two things concerning this book - dialect and the ending. I'm usually conflicted with dialect - I know it exists, I love listening to it, but I hate reading it most of the time. Since dialect is really something meant to be heard it really loses something when it is written. However, I felt that this dialect read fairly naturally (I admit that there were some places I had to use my context clues to figure it out.). The ending was a little bit too neat but not really to the detriment of the rest of the book in my opinion.
Now for my other thoughts. I really did enjoy this book. It is yet another pioneer story that I am drawn towards. Birdie Boyer could really be compared with Caddie Woodlawn and Laura Ingalls. There are so many similarities in these three texts (the young female protagonist for instance) that if a young person loves one, I'm sure they'll at least like the others. Strawberry Girl, despite having the girliest title, is the work that I think would most appeal to boys, because man-o-man they're a feuding!
No comments:
Post a Comment