The Wide, Wide World
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When the heroines of two of my very favorite books were crying their eyes out over Susan Warner’s The Wide, Wide World, I knew it must really be a real book—and that I had to find a copy.
Our local librarian, a dear Mennonite lady, lent me her own copy since it was not to be found in the library system. And then, when I liked it so much, she even managed to track down a copy for us to buy (before the days of everyone having internet and access to all sorts of used books for sale on Amazon.com).
Years later, I found another copy while bookshopping on our honeymoon, and gave it to my little sister for her eleventh birthday. I knew that since she loved Elsie Dinsmore and Jo March as much as I did, she’d want to get acquainted with their friend Ellen Montgomery, as well. She later proclaimed it “the best book she’d ever read”…
Written for the YLCF March of Books “Snapshot of Favorite Books”
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“The Wide, Wide World” is one I’ve been wanting to read myself! I keep hearing about it from friends. So far, I haven’t been able to track down my own copy, but I do have an e-book version of it and so I’m going to read it on my Kindle sometime. It will have to be later in the year, because my list of “need to read soon books” simply must be diminished a bit before I continue piling more in. :~)
Thank you for sharing about this book!
Blessings,
~ Tarissa
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I have added it to my “to-read” list, as well! I love the cover of yours, too. 🙂
Now I simply must put this one on my own wish list of books. If it is anything like Jo March or others of the Alcott creating, I know I must read it too!
What a beautiful cover! And aren’t librarians wonderful? I’ll make sure to put this book on my to-read list. 🙂
There’s a very old copy of this book at my parents house that I bought because I loved the cover illustration. I’m a huge bibliophile but somehow never cracked it open. Now I know what I’m doing the next time I visit them! Thanks, Gretchen!