Open this book and you step onto a magic place...Maria is an orphan living in a vast, dilapidated mansion with no one but a kindly cook, a distracted professor and a spiteful governess for company. That is, until she discovers the Lilliputians - each no more than 6 inches high - who are descendants of those described in Gulliver's Travels. Determined to keep their whereabouts hidden from the human world, the tiny people are at first reluctant to accept Maria as their friend. But when they are accidentally discovered by her ...
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Open this book and you step onto a magic place...Maria is an orphan living in a vast, dilapidated mansion with no one but a kindly cook, a distracted professor and a spiteful governess for company. That is, until she discovers the Lilliputians - each no more than 6 inches high - who are descendants of those described in Gulliver's Travels. Determined to keep their whereabouts hidden from the human world, the tiny people are at first reluctant to accept Maria as their friend. But when they are accidentally discovered by her interfering governess and the scheming vicar, they must join forces to save themselves from a terrible fate. With an introduction by Anne Fine.
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Hargreaves, Martin. Very Good in dw jacket. Quarto. Green cloth-covered boards. Gilt lettering on covers. Minor wear to dustwrapper. Name blocked-out in Belongs To box. VG in other respects.
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Hargreaves, Martin. Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. Green Cloth Covered Boards With Gilt Title And Authors Name. Mild Shelfwear And Edgewear, Boards Lay Flat, Otherwise An Unmarked, Clean, And Solid Copy. Dj Has Mild Shelfwear And Edgewear, Now In A Protective Mylar Jacket.
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Good. Easthampton, Massachusetts, U.S.A. : Antique Collectors Club Ltd, 1998, 1998. Good. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Book shows moderate wear/ spine tight, pages clean/ D.J. scuffed, moderate edge wear/ front cover has many impressions (dents)****We ship most book within 24 hours****Customer satisfaction 100% guaranteed****Over 22 years of experience in the book selling community.
Read Gullivers Travels prior to this story there are some connections to it. Fun and light hearted.
Avidhomeschooler
Feb 14, 2008
Old-fashioned enjoyment
I purchased this book, along with Gulliver's Travels, as part of a literature unit for my 9 year old. T.H. White's children's novel imagines the delightful possibility that Gulliver's rescuer returned to Lilliput and captured the people with the intent to show them and thereby make his fame and fortune. The book picks up years later, when 10 year old Maria, an orphan being brought up in dire and dreary conditions, discovers the escaped little people. My son and I both enjoyed the book (though he found it dull at first, by the closing chapters he was reading eagerly). Not only is the world of the Lilliputians fully imagined in every possible detail (from how they might catch fish and defend themselves against magpies to the way in which they hollowed out a home for themselves in a column), but White manages to intersperse a valuable lesson: no matter how small, people are people, an they deserve respect and care.
