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- Sales Rank: #6887856 in Books
- Published on: 1973
- Format: Import
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 192 pages
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one of the strangest books ever written for children - and funny
By John Gough
This is one of the strangest books ever written for children.
Published in 1959.
Written by a man who was better known as a writer for adults, but now rather forgotten.
Illustrated by the great Raymond Briggs!
Imagine a blend of morality tale, Lewis Caroll, G.K. Chesterton (as in "The Man Who Was Thursday"), Roald Dahl dilemmas, choices, and consequences, Edith Nesbit when she is a bit spooky, and much extravagant word-play.
There is also a hint of the kind of moral puzzle that occurs, for example, in C.S. Lewis's "Narnia" stories, such as "The Voyage of 'The Dawn Treader'" when Lucy finds a magic book that lets her spy on a friend, and as a result hears something unpleasant; or where the voyagers encounter the island where dreams come true, which initially sounds like a marvellous place, until you remember the bad dreams that still haunt you.
(Fantasy Rule Number 17; Be careful what you wish for.)
Middling is a typical small English village, and one typical English summer August Bank Holiday a Fair comes to Middling. (That explains the odd title that alludes to, but does not overtly use the common saying about a situation being fair to middling, or, more or less OK.)
But the Fair is not so typical. (It is very different from the Fair that comes to "Miss Read"'s "Thrush Green" on May Day.)
This Fair includes, among many strange side-shows and attractions, the "Able See Men", and Mr Scratch.
And Middling has Winterbottome School for Incapacitated Orphans, a strange school with an ominious name, a charity school, founded by Sir Percy, for children who have no parents, and who also have some (minor) disability.
The teachers have unusual characteristics.
As noted, each of the children has a disability of some kind: one is an albino, another has a thyroid problem, another is colour-blind.
Each child hopes for a change, as an adult, or sooner, if possible.
The school's current patron, Lady Charity Armstrong, lets the children have a day at the Fair, and gives each child half a crown (a single coin that was roughly comparable to an American quarter, if we are counting pennies).
A crown was five shillings (before New Pence), so half a crown was half of this, two shillings and sixpence.
In 1959 this would have been a sizeable amount for a child to spend at a Fair, perhaps comparable to the money Fern and Avery are given when the go to the County Fair in E.B. White's earlier "Charlotte's Web".)
Each child finds something on offer at one of the attractions of the Fair.
Each child is confronted with a moral dilemma: will the offered "cure" or "solution" be as good as the child hopes? will the price be personally affordable? is the offer genuine?
By the end of the day, each child has chosen, and faced the consequences of the choice and the price.
(Remember the characters, ambitions, and comeuppances that occur through Dahl's "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"? Each child gets what he or she deserves, as the Oompa Loompas gleefully warn and then comment on, like a blend of Furies and Greek Chorus.)
And, such is the nature of this sort of fantasy-moral-entertainment, one of the teachers returns to the school at the end of the long, arduous and remarkable day, and begins to write the first sentences of the book that has just been read.
(E.R. Eddison did this, famously, in "The Worm Ouroboros", as did James Joyce with the starting sentence and final sentence of "Finnegans Wake", and many other stories as well, such as S.E. Hinton's Young Adult novel "The Outsiders".)
(Also check the online notes at [...])
This may be the most unusual chikdren's book you will ever read, apart from Lewis Carroll's "Alice" dream books.
John Gough - Melbourne, Australia - jagough49@gmail.com
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Crying Out for Reissue
By Sarah Rocklin
Someone needs to reprint this book! (New York Times Review of Books, I'm looking at you!)
The books begins as a mysterious fair comes to a small English town. In this town is a school for children with (for want of a better word) disabilities...severe color-blindness, obesity, terrible birthmarks...who are taken to the fair as a treat.
But this fair is special. As they visit the fair, the children (and the teachers) discover that they have the opportunity to be cured, to be normal. But what exactly is the price they have to pay? And to whom?
Beautifully written and with illustrations by Raymond Briggs, this is a children's classic waiting to be rediscovered.
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