Ten-year-old orphan Maria lives in her ancestors' crumbling mansion, with warm-hearted Cook and the eccentric Professor as her only friends. Exploring the grounds one day, Maria discovers a wild, half-forgotten island in the middle of a neglected lake - and an extraordinary secret. For the island is home to a community of tiny people - the Lilliputians that Gulliver first met on his famous travels. But as Maria grows closer to her new friends, her own life is in grave danger. Her wicked governess and the cruel vicar are ...
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Ten-year-old orphan Maria lives in her ancestors' crumbling mansion, with warm-hearted Cook and the eccentric Professor as her only friends. Exploring the grounds one day, Maria discovers a wild, half-forgotten island in the middle of a neglected lake - and an extraordinary secret. For the island is home to a community of tiny people - the Lilliputians that Gulliver first met on his famous travels. But as Maria grows closer to her new friends, her own life is in grave danger. Her wicked governess and the cruel vicar are plotting to steal her rightful inheritance - and they will stop at nothing. How can Maria keep the Lilliputians safe, while protecting herself? This is a timeless classic from the author of "The Sword in the Stone", with an introduction by Anne Fine.
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Read Gullivers Travels prior to this story there are some connections to it. Fun and light hearted.
Avidhomeschooler
Feb 14, 2008
Old-fashioned enjoyment
I purchased this book, along with Gulliver's Travels, as part of a literature unit for my 9 year old. T.H. White's children's novel imagines the delightful possibility that Gulliver's rescuer returned to Lilliput and captured the people with the intent to show them and thereby make his fame and fortune. The book picks up years later, when 10 year old Maria, an orphan being brought up in dire and dreary conditions, discovers the escaped little people. My son and I both enjoyed the book (though he found it dull at first, by the closing chapters he was reading eagerly). Not only is the world of the Lilliputians fully imagined in every possible detail (from how they might catch fish and defend themselves against magpies to the way in which they hollowed out a home for themselves in a column), but White manages to intersperse a valuable lesson: no matter how small, people are people, an they deserve respect and care.
