White Ravens’98/Great Britain/61017
Brown, Ruth
Baba (Proper name)
London: Andersen, 1997. [28pp]
ISBN 0-86264-730-4
Siblings - Excursion - Courage
This simple episodic tale describing two brothers and two sisters taking a
walk across the fields is told in the first person by the oldest sister. The first
half is fraught with tension because the youngest child is being a
„cry-baby“, frightened and unable to climb fences and jump streams like
the older ones can. But when her comfort blanket becomes completely
unravelled, she surprises them all by running the whole distance back alone
to gather the wool in a skein. In her unmistakeable, sensitve and painterly
style, Brown captures the shifting emotions with the perfect choice of
perspective and an eye for details in the natural surroundings. (4+)

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