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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. A little girl with a big voice who lives in a 19-century whaling town finds a way to be useful and happy aboard a sailing ship Creating a disturbance, almost from the moment of her birth, young Emily lived her life at a volume far higher than her sedate, nineteenth-century parents and tutor would have liked. No matter how hard she tried, she just couldn't help being LOUD. With the threat of boarding school looming over her head - Miss Meekmeister's School for Soft-Spoken Girls being the institution selected - Emily instead finds herself embarking on a sea voyage, aboard a ship that had advertised for someone with a loud voice. Here, under the command of soft-spoken Captain Baroo, Emily puts her natural talent to good use, making friends and, eventually, saving the day... As someone who was counseled one more than one occasion, as a young girl and woman, to walk and talk in a more "ladylike" way - what can I say? I have a bit of a stride (a laughably ungainly one, as it happens), and tend to be rather decided, in my speech - by which was usually meant, that I should be less assertive, and more "properly" feminine, I have great sympathy for the idea behind this picture-book. Little girls sometimes need to SHOUT! I'm not sure they always need to shout, as Emily does (I get a headache, just thinking about it), but I took that as storytelling license, on O'Neill's part. I could have wished for a narrative that didn't rely on the fantasy of girl-whale cooperation and friendship - no, children, New England whalers of the 19th century weren't a benign force, in the cetacean world - although a more accurate picture is given in the author's afterword. The artwork, done in oil, and using a "crackle" technique to simulate 19th-century American painting, was very appealing, as were the decorative endpapers, done in scrimshaw style. All in all, I enjoyed Loud Emily, and am glad that it was chosen as one of our January selections, over in The Picture-Book Club to which I belong, where our theme this month is "Children on Adventures, or Exploring." nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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