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Franny Morrow is an odd child. She talks quietly to herself, forgets to eat, and disappears for hours at a time. And there are the fairies: King Tamarack, Queen Iris, and Princess Meadowsweet. Fairies only Franny can see. Friends who are all she has left to remind her of her dead father. When Franny is sent to live with her eccentric grandmother, she takes the fairies with her. Together, they search the old house for a lost treasure: a Kingfisher's feather, which they are certain will give Meadowsweet the gift of flight. But instead they discover a greater magic, one that Franny never expected to find. The Kingfisher's Gift is a rare and beautiful story of growing up, of discovering the truth and wonder of imagination, the importance of believing, and the healing power of letting go.
Rezensionen (4)
School Library Journal-Rezension
Gr 5-7 After burning her hands while trying to prevent her mother from destroying her late father's manuscripts, Franny Morrow is sent to live with her grandmother in Massachusetts while her mother and maternal grandparents spend the summer in Europe. Grandmother Morrow, an enthusiastic gardener and naturalist, remains distant from her granddaughter, who finds companionship with Ida, her grandmother's maid. But the most important figures in Franny's life are King Tamarack, Queen Iris, and Princess Meadowsweet, the fairies who were the main characters in her father's stories and who have become real to her after his death. Franny is determined to help them find the kingfisher's gift, the magic feather that will enable Meadowsweet, a water sprite changeling, to fly like her parents. A crisis leads to the destruction of the feather, Franny's questioning the fairies' existence, and the revelation of secrets about Ida's and Grandmother Morrow's pasts, ultimately bringing Franny to accept her father's death and the presence of magic, both human and fairy, in life. This moving story is marred by the conflicting information about Franny's father's awareness of the fairies' existence. Details bring the child, the other characters, and the early 1900s setting to life, creating a well-plotted story that unfolds clearly from its opening to Franny's ultimate reconciliation with her mother. While not an essential purchase, the story will appeal to young readers looking to find magic in their own lives. -Beth L. Meister, Queens Borough Public Library, Flushing, NY (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Horn Book-Rezension
Sent to live with her aloof grandmother for the summer, Franny refuses to accept her father's death and develops an elaborate fantasy life around the fairy characters he created stories about. The novel's ending is weak, but the appealing fairy adventures are described with as much care as FrannyÆs real-life interactions with her grandmother and her household staff. From HORN BOOK Fall 2002, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus-Rezension
Beckhorn (In the Morning of the World, not reviewed) gives the heartstrings a real workout in a tale replete with characters nursing private grief. Six months after her beloved father's death, and with her mother off to a European rest cure in the wake of a nervous breakdown, 12-year-old Franny arrives at her Grandma Morrow's country house. She's deep in denial, accompanied by the fairies of her father's tales (visible only to her), and bearing severe burns she got while attempting to rescue those stories after her mother pitched them into a fire. It soon becomes obvious that Grandmother, the widowed chauffeur Henry, and the Irish maid Ida all have sad secrets-which come out in a climactic rush after Franny's discovery of a display of mounted, all-too-fairy-like luna moths shatters her fragile composure. Ida's admission of a baby given up for adoption prompts Grandma Morrow, who has a similar experience in her own past, to rush out to reclaim it; she returns with a foundling, which she presents to Ida as hers. It isn't, but only Franny, her grandma, and Henry, who is in love with Ida, know the truth. This rather cavalier deception doesn't bear much examination, but there are tender and tearful moments aplenty here. Franny and her mother are reconciled by the end, and though, unlike the Little Folk in Janet Taylor Lisle's Afternoon of the Elves (1989), Franny's fairies put in repeat appearances, and readers are still left with the option of believing that they're real-or not. (Fiction. 11-13)
Booklist-Rezension
Gr. 4-6. Like her late father, Franny Morrow believes in fairies. Two fairies--or three, if you include the changeling water sprite child--travel with her when she goes to live with her grandmother while her mother takes a recuperative voyage. Franny hopes to help her fairy friends recover a long-lost treasure: the feather of a kingfisher that will enable Meadowsweet, the changeling, to fly. At the same time, she is drawn out of her fantasy world by real-life problems--the ambivalent attitude of her grandmother and a romance between the chauffeur and the maid. One somewhat jarring but delicately handled issue involves the stigma of illegitimacy in early-twentieth-century America. Franny finally comes to terms with her father's death and discovers that her fairies can enrich and inform her "real" life without overwhelming it. The cover illustration might cause readers to expect more fantasy than the book contains, and problems are wrapped up a bit too conveniently. But this mixture of fantasy and reality should have appeal to fans of Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic The Secret Gardenand Janet Taylor Lisle'sAfternoon of the Elves(1989). Catherine Andronik.