A little too much for the younger kids in my audience, but should be read by anyone over, let's randomly say 10 or 11? Especially kids who turn up noses at good food placed consistently before them?!!īeautifully, gorgeously written. Personally after reading so much suffering I wanted something to go right for this family, we will keep our fingers crossed for them. This book did a good job of portraying this shocking period of history, we enjoyed the glossary of Irish words and hearing some of their customs and folklore, some of which we recognised. At the end we see the family hope to escape on a ship to New York This was the relief I was waiting for so it would have been great to be able to know this happened. This obviously makes for bleak reading, I think we would have appreciated this book more if the second book was part of this one. This book certainly gets across the level of suffering although as my daughter pointed out given the number of people who died there is only one death in the characters we meet and that was an elderly Grandmother. We certainly learnt lots about the awful life the Irish people endured, as if living on potatoes wasn't bad enough, with the potatoes lost by blight it was limpets and seaweed if you were lucky. Urn:oclc:796902132 Republisher_date 20120305220421 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120305175029 Scanner read this hoping to find out more about the potato famine, which when you read the fact that twice the amount of food needed by the starving people was shipped out, stolen by the English would be more accurately called a genocide than a famine, I think that calling it a famine is offensive. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 03:19:48 Boxid IA174801 Boxid_2 CH103801 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York DonorĬityofsausalitolibrary External-identifier
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