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A review by hwindow21
Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell
5.0
A favorite. This book made me a child again.
A friend gifted me Rooftoppers to help me remember my time studying at Oxford. This book's rooftops evoke the same magic of the Oxford spires, so eclectic a collection of peaks and slopes, you look at them and know they must harbor life.
In fact, though, Rooftoppers helped me remember much more than Oxford. My mother picked up my copy before I did, and by the time it came to me it had her loving markings, flooding me with memories of hours spent reading together when I was a child. The story brought back the magic of childhood, and reading, to my graduate-school self.
Sophie and her British guardian Charles have the ideal relationship of mutual encouragement and trust, which serves as an example both for creative children and supportive guardians. Charles' mantra to "never ignore a possible" fits well in your pocket for easy-access when you need a hint of hope.
Sophie leads Charles to the need to search for her long-lost mother, and Charles leads Sophie to Paris in pursuit of this goal practically. Charles' respect for creative solutions gives Sophie the confidence to explore the roof-world outside her hotel window, and consider what she and its unusual inhabitants have to offer each other.
Let me say again that hope drives this story, with curiosity as an operative force and love as a blanket.
A friend gifted me Rooftoppers to help me remember my time studying at Oxford. This book's rooftops evoke the same magic of the Oxford spires, so eclectic a collection of peaks and slopes, you look at them and know they must harbor life.
In fact, though, Rooftoppers helped me remember much more than Oxford. My mother picked up my copy before I did, and by the time it came to me it had her loving markings, flooding me with memories of hours spent reading together when I was a child. The story brought back the magic of childhood, and reading, to my graduate-school self.
Sophie and her British guardian Charles have the ideal relationship of mutual encouragement and trust, which serves as an example both for creative children and supportive guardians. Charles' mantra to "never ignore a possible" fits well in your pocket for easy-access when you need a hint of hope.
Sophie leads Charles to the need to search for her long-lost mother, and Charles leads Sophie to Paris in pursuit of this goal practically. Charles' respect for creative solutions gives Sophie the confidence to explore the roof-world outside her hotel window, and consider what she and its unusual inhabitants have to offer each other.
Let me say again that hope drives this story, with curiosity as an operative force and love as a blanket.