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Ever Wanted A GREAT Story For...
Ever wanted a GREAT story for children? Well when you do I HIGHLY recommend this book! Its a wonderful book for all ages from 4-504! You'll love this book!! ... Read more

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As wonderfully charming as the Disney film they inspired!
Margery Sharp's delightful children's masterpiece The Rescuers was a joy to read, using simple language and sophisticated wording, the big world of Bernard and Miss Bianca is sure a wonder to behold.Without a doubt one of the sweetest books I have ever come across.
The rare children's book in which mice aid Norwegians
Disney has much to answer for.Through the years it's co-opted, retold, and twisted a whole range of interesting children's books and stories out there.No one denies this.However, Disney sometimes (without realizing it itself) does the world a boon.Take, for example, the case of "The Rescuers".Best known today as a cartoon movie in which Eva Gabor and Bob Newhart lend their voices to two adorable mouse rescuers of a little girl, few remember that the film originally began as a book series.Fewer still have read that series today.Yet for all its faults, Disney's movie still leads children to read Margery Sharp's impeccable little treasure.It is debatable whether or not people would still remember the book were it not for the film.What is not debatable is the fact that the book, for all its dated concepts and affectations, remains a wonderful classic.
As good as I remembered!
Not many things in life can live up to the fond image your memory creates after many years of absence. Margery Sharp's Miss Bianca series can, I'm happy to learn. I recently bought the first three books of the series (The Rescuers, Miss Bianca, The Turret) to read with my kids. I'd read them when I was a kid and remembered -- more than remembered, I could even *feel* -- the carried-away-by-my-imagination thrill that I got when I'd first read them. Do you remember that from certain childhood books or games?
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