But, fear the overall violence and death would be for an older audience (high school?). Overall, the language, packaging (cover art, font and format) suggest 9+years old. I think my misgiving (not giving more stars) was trying to think where this book fits - who is the intended audience? I came to this text knowing a few facts about The Light Horse Brigade, but appreciate younger readers possibly wouldn’t see the ending coming - and, again, it was well delivered. The careful use of language (or lingo) was well executed. With his usual first person, naive narration Morris Gleitzman has cleverly crafted an historically plausible and endearing story here. How do you package up a whole WW1 Australian story of a young solider and his horse in under 200 pages for a middle grade 21st century reader?
0 kommentar(er)
