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A review by carriedoodledoo
Mother Carey's Chickens by Kate Douglas Wiggin
5.0
Well, this was simply adorable. I didn't THINK I was being loud, but apparently I chuckled and sighed to myself a little much because my husband asked from across the room what I was reading!
Whoever adapted the movie script to "Summer Magic" definitely loved the little novel they were taking it from. The making of a successful motion picture necessitated the combination of characters and reorganization of events, as it so often does, but having grown up on and loved the movie, I think it does justice to the spirit of the book. It's so strange--but I also grew up reading "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm" and I never connected the dots. Sunnybrook certainly didn't come out so well in the Shirley Temple film we watched as kids...I think about the only thing that remained was the title!
"Mother Carey's Chickens" is now a new favorite, and I wish I had read it during my summer in Maine. How perfect would that have been? Cousin Ann, bless you. I liked you from the start!
Whoever adapted the movie script to "Summer Magic" definitely loved the little novel they were taking it from. The making of a successful motion picture necessitated the combination of characters and reorganization of events, as it so often does, but having grown up on and loved the movie, I think it does justice to the spirit of the book. It's so strange--but I also grew up reading "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm" and I never connected the dots. Sunnybrook certainly didn't come out so well in the Shirley Temple film we watched as kids...I think about the only thing that remained was the title!
"Mother Carey's Chickens" is now a new favorite, and I wish I had read it during my summer in Maine. How perfect would that have been? Cousin Ann, bless you. I liked you from the start!