Rose Rivers (World of Hetty Feather)

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Rose Rivers (World of Hetty Feather)

Rose Rivers (World of Hetty Feather)

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You thought you were being so kind and splendid making friends with a girl like me, but when you saw that brooch so obviously planted in my bed, you thought I was a common thief like all the others." I found Beth really interesting because of her disability, she was hidden from the world. I also really liked the description of Paris, but I didn’t really like the mother whom they call Mama because she definitely favoured Rupert over Rose and tried to pretend Beth didn’t exist, which was really sad. I also didn’t really like Nurse Budd because she was “helping” Beth by giving her a drug (I think it was opium). Decided to take this one slower than other books I've read so far this year. I remember reading Hetty Feather ten years ago not long after it was published, and her brief reappearance, along with Wilson's writing in general, made me feel nostalgic for my cousin's box room where we used to hunch over books with endless cups of tea....

Jacqueline is one of the nation’s favourite authors, and her books are loved and cherished by young readers not only in the UK but all over the world. She has sold millions of books and in the UK alone the total now stands at over 35 million! Rose Rivers lives in a beautiful house with her artist father, her difficult, fragile mother and her many siblings. She has everything money can buy - but she feels as though life isn't fair for girls and poor people. Sometimes I find it very hard indeed to like Mama. However, I love Papa and I will try to learn to sketch properly for his sake. The character I didn’t like was Rose’s brother, Rupert. He is vain and doesn’t think about anyone but himself. He doesn’t listen to what Rose is trying to tell him and he always acts like the perfect child in front of everyone but Rose and won’t admit when he is wrong. I’d read about girls’ boarding schools. I longed to go to one. I imagined charismatic teachers and intelligent girls having lively discussions in classrooms. I saw myself strolling through rose gardens, arm in arm with bookish girls, sipping cocoa together in our nightgowns, confiding secrets.Overall I liked this book a lot because something is always going on which keeps you reading. Also, the pace of the story differs throughout the whole book. Not all questions are answered by the end but that lets the reader imagine what happens next. Mama is the lady of the house and has a distinguished artist husband and seven children and a beautiful home in London and a wardrobe full of new gowns, and yet she’s as miserable as sin. What is wrong with mothers in JW books? They're either incredible, working mums, snappish, evil, pressuring non-working mums or dead. I understand that it makes a good novel, but eyou know what also makes a good novel? A bit of variety. The characters I found interesting in this book are Clover, the nursery maid, Beth, Rose’s troubled sister, and Mrs Budd, Beth’s nurse. I didn’t like Rose that much and I found Paris very creepy for kissing a 13-year-old. I learnt that Hyde Park was still a thing hundreds of years ago. The time it was set was interesting because they used interesting dialect. It was not realistic because her parents wouldn’t have stayed together as they did not love each other, and at the beginning it was said that the Dad had the money but later on her Mum had the money. The plot was exciting. I enjoyed this book.

Our governess, Miss Rayner, sometimes arranges odds and ends that she feels are ‘artistic’ for us to paint with our shared box of Winsor & Newton watercolours. Last time she gathered a blue and white striped milk jug from the kitchen, a garish china couple won at a fairground, a bowl of fruit and a posy of violets in a pink pot. I tried reasonably hard, but the milk jug tilted alarmingly, the china couple looked drunk, the bowl of fruit wouldn’t stay circular and the posy wilted before I could finish it.

Young Quills reviews

Rose is a young girl in a wealthy family whom loves studying and wishes to go to school more than anything but instead her twin brother Rupert gets to go.

I knew I was wishing for the moon. This was another tired old argument, and one that involved further criticism of Mama. She had no qualms about sending my brother Rupert away to school, but she refused to even consider my education. I have to make do with Miss Rayner in the nursery schoolroom. My only criticism is that every time a character is introduced there should be an illustration to show what the character looks like. I loved this book as it had so many plot twists. I liked the way it teaches how each class in the Victorian times had to cope with life. Girls had a tough time having to stay at home and entertain themselves, and the poorer classes had to survive on very little food and small pay from their jobs. The rich had very easy lives and with their heritage, they did not need to work. This book has also showed me how over the many years how education has changed for girls. It also opened my eyes to the fact that if children that were troubled now were treated like Beth, the carer would be sent to court. This shows how the law has changed for child cruelty and girls' rights. I think that this book is a great book for children aged 9+ so that they understand the deeper meaning to this book. I hope that there is a sequel to this book as it ended on an exciting cliff hanger. Jacqueline Wilson wrote her first novel when she was nine years old, and she has been writing ever since. She is now one of Britain’s bestselling and most beloved children’s authors. She has written over 100 books and is the creator of characters such as Tracy Beaker and Hetty Feather. More than forty million copies of her books have been sold.

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She misses her brother very much. But then she makes two new friends, though neither are considered suitable: the new nursery maid, Clover Moon, and her father’s bohemian protégé, Paris Walker. Rose suddenly finds her life turned upside down … The plot wasn’t great, it was just based on Rose and how she loved Paris. It wasn’t the type that made you go “ooh” or “aah” just “oh”.

As well as winning many awards for her books, including the Children’s Book of the Year, Jacqueline is a former Children’s Laureate, and in 2008 she was appointed a Dame. ROSE RIVERS lives in a beautiful big London house with her artist father, querulous mother, six siblings and seven servants – and finds her life stif ling. She loves to study and longs to go to boarding school like her twin brother, but Victorian young ladies are supposed to be content staying at home. When a young girl, Clover Moon, joins the household as a nursemaid to Rose's troubled sister Beth, and she meets her father's bohemian protégé Paris Walker, she starts to learn more about the wider world. I would recommend this book to anybody who is curious about the Victorian era and the discrimination and struggles of those who lived in it. One of my least favourite characters has to be Nurse Budd because of the way she slyly treated the children (especially Beth) with such cruelty. She was very two-faced, acting polite, pleasant and good-natured towards the parents but harsh towards the children and even barbaric for putting Beth through such danger.During the book rose develops a crush on a young artist named Paris Walker, she grows very attached as he shows interest in her artistic ability when other snub her. He encourages her throughout the book while he paints her mothers portrait (she draws crude sketches of this process taking place). Eventually she ends up kissing him and he is banished from the household while she is sent away to school.



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