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Average rating4.1
Excellent little tale :-)
As said “a summer tale of four sisters, two rabbits, and a very interesting boy. There's also a hound, another very interesting boy and a very scary lady involved.
It reminds me a lot of Little Women, with the girls moving in to a cottage for summer and befriending the rich boy of the mansion next to the cottage, but the Penderwicks have a father, but no mother.
I do not approve what mrs. Tifton did, no respectable lady would ever even allow oneself to think that way, not to mention actually saying it out aloud! As they say, money doesn't buy class.
I have a little warning, though. In the beginning Skye calls dibs on choosing the room, but is forced to accept the Hound selection, which she hates, because she always loses it - and she loses it again. At that point I was about to throw this book to the wall for being so very, very, very unfair. They could have let her keep her dibs. Now, it ends well anyway, but it was nevertheless unfair. They should have said “let it go for this time, but never again, OK?”
I am also glad about how the problem was solved. I wish all the children in the world would dare to trust their parents to listen to them, and I wish all the parents in the world were worthy the trust. (If this is a spoiler, tell me, so that I can hide it.)