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Title: A real disappointment
Review: When I was a very young girl I read some of the late-Victorian "Elsie Dinsmore" series (I was stuck at a great-aunt's house in the rain). This book comes as close as anything I've read since in combining surgary piety with an unlikely plot and turgid writing. I can only suppose that all those teachers who were raving about it were teaching in private Christian schools.The premise is nonsense but it might have been fun if treated light-heartedly. Children enjoy fantasy and improbable plots and if they are well-written such stories can teach important lessons about life. As it is, this book doesn't teach "values" -- it heavy-handedly and explicitly preaches the type of fundemental Christianity that may not be acceptable to many readers.I'm all in favor of clean writing and good values but I consider that books in which adult characters exclaim "Praise Jesus" should come with some kind of advisory.
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