Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman is great for older readers. It follows the diary of a Catherine, who lives in a manor with her father and mother and servants and people of all sorts. Her mother wants her to become a sophisticated woman and to be married, but Catherine simply has other things on her mind.
I love how Catherine is a witty and hilarious. She loves to paint and has a whole different mind to everyone else around her and sees things in a different perspective. She makes jokes and what may have been a normal remark back in the 1600s, it is funny now. I giggled quite a lot.
This book has been star reviewed many times, and no wonder! This book brilliant!
For example, Catherine sneaks out of the castle to go and make huts and to muck around with the villagers and peasants. She gets so covered with in mud and dirt, that when a dashing prince arrives and asks that he is trying to find Catherine, she acts as a peasant and says nice things about herself!
Another point is that you just don't want to rush through the book to get it over with. Cushman has made this book so engaging that you just want to take your time with the entries and to understand what she is saying.
Rating: 4/5 stars
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