Wise Child by Monica Furlong Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Wise Child
Book Review: I have re-read this book over and over and I am quite grown up these days
Summary: 5 Stars
I absolutely love this book. I am quite grown up these days and have been for some time, but I never fail to be literally drawn into the world of Wise Child. Furlong is a fantastic and colourful writer, and I am there with the action every step of the way.
I have an old copy and I loved the cover more than the updated version, but that's just cosmetic.
I would say this book would be perfect for any Wiccan parent who wished to explain to their child about the laws of Wicca. It is full of divine imagery and colour, I wish I had have had it as a child. I will certainly be recommending it to my own daughter when she is old enough to read.
I give this book 6 stars, well I would if I could !
Book Review: If you could only own one book..............
Summary: 5 Stars
Then you would have to hold this one to your heart and have an all out debate with yourself it you could part with it. This story never gets old. No matter how many times you read it, there is always a phrase, a sentence, a moment where you are taken to another place and you feel love. Thank you Monica Furlong for such a gift. Book Review: This book was just awesome-
Summary: 5 Stars
I loved it! I especially liked how the character Juniper was someone that was easy to look up to and like.There are so many novels when that just isn't true about the main character. It was also so imaginiative and fantastic,but in a gentle way,it eased you into the story first.Book Review: A lesson for all
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a very well told story. Wise Child, the daughter of Finbar, a man of the sea, and Maeve the Fair, who abandoned her when she was an infant, is orphaned when her grandmother passes away. When the villagers are asked to take her in, none have room. This is when Juniper steps forward and offers her home, much to the chagrin of Fillan, the village priest, who believes her to be a pagan witch, while he believes there is only room for one religion in the world.
The story tells of the powerful bond that is forged between Wise Child and Juniper, and how that bond is tested many times, especially when Maeve shows up asking Wise Child to come away with her, to live the life of a princess. As well, the tail describes the ways of the Doran and the difference between dark and white "magic".
And yes, there is a lesson to be learned. That FEAR and IGNORANCE can be very powerful tools, even when you can't truly believe in the end result.
As a volunteer reader for a radio reading service, I spend a lot of time reading YA and Juvenile literature. Though I cannot do this novel justice (The main characters being female), I am still recommending it be recorded for our listeners, because everyone can learn something from this.
Book Review: Primal, Elegant Feminism
Summary: 5 Stars
I picked up Wise Child in my elementary school library when I was 9 years old, entirely out of facination with the drawing. Looking back, the beautiful story inside changed me hugely. I was living with my little sister and newly divorced, single mother at the time, and though I was unaware of it at the time, the story of Juniper raising Wise Child in her mysterious and magical house ended up giving me my first taste of a mystical, powerful, vibrant, and intellegent feminism, something I wasn't accustomed to at the time (as much as I loved disney movies full of helpless heronies). Monica Furlong presented both a woman and a girl entering adolescence with an organic, strong, and natural beauty, which was something I could identify with. In retrospect, the scenes I imagined as I read Wise Child under the covers with a flashlight long after I'd been put to bed have remained a flavorful part of my subconscious imagery, and have undoubtedly infulenced my personal aesthetic. In Wise Child, beauty isn't fabricated, but nurtured as a strange and wild quality from within that borders from time to time on the terrifying. I thoroughly recommend this book to girls ages 8 and up. And maybe some extra flashlight batteries too.