Yes - I just finished another children's book but apparently it's a classic and I didn't even know about it!! What??? And I just can't read too many adult novels before I have to read a children's book - just have to!
If you like princesses, kings, grandmothers, magic and goblins that live in the mountain you will enjoy this story. I was pleasantly surprised with the Christian symbolism and related it to the writings of C.S. Lewis and J.R. Tolkien. As I was thinking about this concept I happened to read the inside flap of the book and this is what I found it to say:
George Macdonald was a 19th century author who moved in the literary circles of Alfred Lord Tennyson and Lewis Carroll. Not only that but he had tremendous influence on C.S. Lewis who claimed that MacDonald baptized his imagination with goodness, and J.R. Tolkien who used MacDonald's work as a measuring stick for his own writing in "The Lord of the Rings".
WHAT???????? I LOVE reading the books of Lewis and Tolkien!!
It was a very cute story and I look forward to owning my own copy someday!
Rating: 9
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