Playing Beatie Bow (Puffin Books)
4 journalers for this copy...
Winner of the 1981 Australian Children's Book of the Year Award
"Abigail Kirk was an ordinary enough fourteen-year-old growing up in Sydney. She was a prickly, quiet girl who resented her father breaking up their home and leaving them. So when her mother told her they were all going to live together again in Norway, Abigail couldn't understand and couldn't forgive either of her parents.
It was 'the little furry girl' who started it all. Only Abigail and Natalie noticed her watching the children playing the scary game they called 'Beatie Bow'. When Abigail tried to speak to her, she ran off into the back streets of that part of Sydney known as The Rocks. At least it looked like The Rocks, but was it? All Abigail knew was that the Bows wouldn't let her go home again and the girl was Beatie Bow. And what was 'the gift' they were all talking about in whispers?
But there was compensations for being unable to get back into her own time: like learning to live in Victorian Sydney, getting to know the Bows - and most important of all, meeting Judah."
"Abigail Kirk was an ordinary enough fourteen-year-old growing up in Sydney. She was a prickly, quiet girl who resented her father breaking up their home and leaving them. So when her mother told her they were all going to live together again in Norway, Abigail couldn't understand and couldn't forgive either of her parents.
It was 'the little furry girl' who started it all. Only Abigail and Natalie noticed her watching the children playing the scary game they called 'Beatie Bow'. When Abigail tried to speak to her, she ran off into the back streets of that part of Sydney known as The Rocks. At least it looked like The Rocks, but was it? All Abigail knew was that the Bows wouldn't let her go home again and the girl was Beatie Bow. And what was 'the gift' they were all talking about in whispers?
But there was compensations for being unable to get back into her own time: like learning to live in Victorian Sydney, getting to know the Bows - and most important of all, meeting Judah."
Journal Entry 2 by leeny37 at Post office: Mailed to another bookcrosser in Laverton, Western Australia Australia on Monday, February 20, 2006
Released 18 yrs ago (2/20/2006 UTC) at Post office: Mailed to another bookcrosser in Laverton, Western Australia Australia
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I have not read this myself, but my friend who read this in high school said she really enjoyed it then. Sending this on as a RABCK to Gymgirl, hopefully this is a book that will be of interest! (^_^)
I have not read this myself, but my friend who read this in high school said she really enjoyed it then. Sending this on as a RABCK to Gymgirl, hopefully this is a book that will be of interest! (^_^)
Journal Entry 3 by Gymgirl from Sydney CBD, New South Wales Australia on Thursday, February 23, 2006
Thank you for thinking of me leeny37. My cousin and my mum have both read this book and said it is good so we'll see...
gymgirl said it was ok to pass this great children's book on...
This is my first experience with Book Crossing and having 'caught' one of my all time favourite childhood books makes me want to join this great community all the more.
Kids are going to bed early tonight so that I can read it again in peace :)
Kids are going to bed early tonight so that I can read it again in peace :)
