The design and UX isn't done, Rob and Abbie, okkurrrr! 😌
sarahjanet's review against another edition
4.0
Definite shades of Ballet Shoes but not quite as good.
pghbekka's review
5.0
"Wake up, sir. Merry Christmas, sir. We've had quads, sir."
I forget sometimes that this is really one of my absolute favorite of the Streatfield books. And sometimes I forget how much I love Streatfield until I re-read this book. Formulaic sometimes, and definitely stretching credulity, but so much fun!
My current quibble: I've always been able to hand-wave that the grownups just matter-of-factly accept that 4 babies were abandoned on their doorstep as Christmas presents. But on my recent re-read, I was bugged that the children kept wondering why they weren't back to advertising, but never got an answer. The answer seems to be, because if you went back to advertising, we wouldn't have this plotline. If the children just accepted this like their abandonment, it would bug me less, but it keeps popping up with no resolution.
I forget sometimes that this is really one of my absolute favorite of the Streatfield books. And sometimes I forget how much I love Streatfield until I re-read this book. Formulaic sometimes, and definitely stretching credulity, but so much fun!
My current quibble: I've always been able to hand-wave that the grownups just matter-of-factly accept that 4 babies were abandoned on their doorstep as Christmas presents. But on my recent re-read, I was bugged that the children kept wondering why they weren't back to advertising, but never got an answer. The answer seems to be, because if you went back to advertising, we wouldn't have this plotline. If the children just accepted this like their abandonment, it would bug me less, but it keeps popping up with no resolution.
katekat's review
5.0
I have always loved Noel Streatfeild's books and as a child I got my library to ILL them for me or hunted through second hand book stores to find all of them. She tells the perfect "girls stories". I was always able to find one character in each book that was my favorite. They definitely stand up to re-reads.
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