Mary Chase is best known for writing the original stage version of the classic Jimmy Stewart move Harvey, about the six-foot-tall invisible rabbit. She also wrote this wonderful children's story, in which a delightfully bad little girl named Maureen trespasses inside the "Old Messerman Place," a ruined mansion that had once been the home of a thriving Victorian-era merchant, his kind wife, and their seven cold-hearted daughters. At first it seems the mansion is full of Harry-Potter style moving pictures, but there is a different kind of magic afoot here, as Maureen discovers. A funny book, and a great one to be shared between adventurous youngsters and grown-ups who like fantasy.
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I will have to check this one out!
curious~ =)
Thanks for posting to gutterGirls~
thanks for the review!
I wonder how two loving parents end up with very cold daughters. Hmmm.
This sounds like a fun book to read!