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A review by fallingletters
Afternoon of the Elves by Janet Taylor Lisle
3.0
Originally posted 31 December 2012 on Falling Letters.
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One of my earliest favourite books (from when I was six or seven, probably) is [b:The Lost Flower Children|1020887|The Lost Flower Children|Janet Taylor Lisle|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1180292557s/1020887.jpg|2985172]. I thought it a delightful little tale, but for some reason I never picked up the author's other books. I decided it was about time, and I blazed through this one. I'm glad I did not read it as a child. I would have been highly disappointed to find there were actually no fairies in it. I was still disappointed! But at my age I was able to see this wasn't that sort of book and I was able to appreciate it more for what it actually is. I did wonder what I would have thought of the book had I read it at its intended age level? Would I have believed that what Harriet saw was what she said she saw? It was easy to understand that there weren't actually any elves, despite the story being told from Harriet's perspective, but I wonder if I would have realized it as quickly at a younger age. Final note: I thought Sara-Kate was very well-written, an intriguing character truly impossible to decipher.
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One of my earliest favourite books (from when I was six or seven, probably) is [b:The Lost Flower Children|1020887|The Lost Flower Children|Janet Taylor Lisle|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1180292557s/1020887.jpg|2985172]. I thought it a delightful little tale, but for some reason I never picked up the author's other books. I decided it was about time, and I blazed through this one. I'm glad I did not read it as a child. I would have been highly disappointed to find there were actually no fairies in it. I was still disappointed! But at my age I was able to see this wasn't that sort of book and I was able to appreciate it more for what it actually is. I did wonder what I would have thought of the book had I read it at its intended age level? Would I have believed that what Harriet saw was what she said she saw? It was easy to understand that there weren't actually any elves, despite the story being told from Harriet's perspective, but I wonder if I would have realized it as quickly at a younger age. Final note: I thought Sara-Kate was very well-written, an intriguing character truly impossible to decipher.