I liked the depictions of the characters. A lot depends on the coolheadedness and sensible thinking on Miss Brooks' part, and her patience in allowing the children to work it out for themselves.
I don't know what time period the story is set in, but the resolution of the bullying problem in the novel makes a wonderful contrast with today's nanny state pattern of interference in such matters. Nowadays, of course, an army of social workers, police officers, teachers, and general do-gooders would have descended to "help" the girls discuss their feelings. What is surprising in this book is that when Kizzy is physically attacked by the local school girls, Miss Brooks is determined that the children have to settle the matter for themselves, and how they do this is the subject of the story until the end.
As her relatives didn't want to take her in, Kizzy becomes the ward of Miss Brooks, a retired magistrate who is familiar with Gypsy life, and accepts her as she is Kizzy definitely has her flaws, not all of them in response to the teasing she has endured. Admiral Twiss agrees to provide for Joe, and when he realizes Kizzy is ill, calls a doctor and he and his men nurse her back to health. In the middle of the cold night, she harnesses Joe and takes him to the home of Admiral Twiss, whose servants find her sleeping the snow the next morning. Suddenly she is bereft of the only home she has known, and to make matters worse, her rather mean cousin informs her that the old horse, Joe, will surely be sent to the knackers. When her grandmother dies, Kizzy was not expecting her relatives to perform the traditional rites of breaking up her grandmother's posessions and burning the wagon. Local authorities demand that she begin school in the nearby village, where she is teased for being half-Gypsy-a Diddakoi-whose father was a "Traveller" (as Gypsies are known in Britain and Ireland) and her mother Irish.
Kizzy Lovell, the main character, is about 6 years old, an orphan who lives with her great-grandmother in a dilapidated Gypsy wagon in the orchard of Admiral Twiss. Urn:oclc:40190198 Scandate 20111213022026 Scanner Godden's book for children (around age 10, I think) is a lovely story about difference, bullying, and kindness. OL1825321W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 85.12 Pages 170 Ppi 514 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0330323970 Urn:lcp:diddakoi00godd:epub:c7b2df59-73b6-42b8-81d1-7c717d3b0e4b Extramarc Brown University Library Foldoutcount 0 Identifier diddakoi00godd Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t6349pj6h Isbn 0670272205 Lccn 76184788 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 17:08:37 Boxid CH131307 Boxid_2 CH129925 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary External-identifier
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