Title: Very sad
Product review: An older book, recently republished, by the author of the Pippi Longstocking books, The Red Bird is the story of Matthew and Anna who have very sad days with a mean farmer in Myra until they find a door in a wall that leads to Sunnymead and happiness.A modern young reader will not stay with this book long. Both its repetitive and lengthy text as well as its dully colored illustrations do not entice one to contine reading past the halfway point.And although there is a happy ending, the reader is left feeling sorry for Matthew and Anna, not rejoicing at their freedom.I do not know if Lindgren meant this to be so, but the story has the very strong feeling of being a metaphor for life on earth versus an after-life in heaven.Unfortunately, not destined to be a classic.
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