Midwest Book Review
This turn-of-the-century six-year-old's diary presents a vivid portrait of the girl's life: it became a sensation upon its discovery in 1920 and today offers new YA readers a classic. The poetic-appearing structure of the lines may throw readers who take one look and expect verse; but the special presentation shouldn't detract from its strong message.
Book Description
A lyrical, lovely, and deeply touching adaptation of an authentic journal kept by an orphaned six-year-old girl--later believed to be a French princess--living in an Oregon lumber camp at the turn of the century. 24 black-and-white photographs.
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A lyrical, lovely, and deeply touching adaptation of an authentic journal kept by an orphaned six-year-old girl--later believed to be a French princess--living in an Oregon lumber camp at the turn of the century. 24 black-and-white photographs.
Opal: The Journal of an Understanding Heart ANNOTATION
Like Watership Down and The Education of Little Tree, this lyrical, lovely, and deeply touching journal kept by a six-year-old girl living in an Oregon lumber camp at the turn of the century is a book that will appeal to all ages. "Enchanting . . . Opal transforms bleak and loveless circumstances into a life-affirming fable."--San Francisco Chronicle.
FROM THE PUBLISHER
A lyrical, lovely, and deeply touching adaptation of an authentic journal kept by an orphaned six-year-old girl—later believed to be a French princess—living in an Oregon lumber camp at the turn of the century. 24 black-and-white photographs.
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