A favourite of Anne Fine, July 2011 Guest Editor: "Just like Anthony Horowitz (on this site) I’m a tremendous fan of T H White and his great masterpiece, The Once and Future King. But at eleven I also came across this book of his about the orphan heiress Maria who finds, hidden on a tiny island in the lake on the great overgrown estate of Malplaquet, a little world of leftover Lilliputians, still only two inches high, who have been living there in secret for over 200 years. The story has everything readers this age love: a hidden will, a sneaky and grasping vicar, a spiteful, kitten-drowning governess, dangers and chases, imprisonments and revelations. I only wish I’d written it myself."
The Lovereading Comment:
Maria is a ten-year-old orphan girl, growing up in her crumbling ancestral home, under the authority of a cold guardian and a tyrannical governess. But when Maria paddles over to a small island in the center of a lake on the grounds, she makes a marvelous discovery: the island is peopled by Lilliputians.
Yes, the sea captain who rescued Gulliver so long ago, returned, and trapped a group of the unfortunate Lilliputians for a sideshow act. But, they had escaped, and built themselves a new home on the island called Mistress Masham's Repose. Unfortunately, human nature has changed very little over the last three hundred years, and the Lilliputian's safety exists only in their being unknown to the humans living around them. Can Maria safeguard the little people from her greedy guardian and governess?
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Mistress Masham's Repose by T H , Eichenburg, Fritz White
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed Mistress Masham's Repose and determined it is suitable for children aged 9-10 years old
Mistress Masham's Repose features in the following genres: Featured Books for 9+ readers, Recommendations
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Mistress Masham's Repose was written by T H , Eichenburg, Fritz White and published by Jane Nissen Books