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A young girl follows a strangely-dressed urchin and winds up in Victorian-era Sydney. I love the sardonic 14-year-old protagonist in this. When an annoying sickly boy says if he lives to his next birthday he'll be 10, she thinks to herself, `Why bother?" When he tells her she's ugly, she evenly replies that he's not a dazzler himself. The author gives the character such honesty and perceptiveness and a realistically contradictory balance of wry toughness and confused vulnerability, it seemed like one of the most real literary voices I've ever heard.

Great details about the era without feeling forced in or a like a history lesson -- just observed with interest and wonder, and then growing acclimation.

The ending is very satisfying -- the loose ends are tied up with a "Bow," you might say.


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Playing Beatie Bow Puffin Books Ruth Park 9780140314601 Books Reviews

10/12 - I loved this book as a 10-year-old and one small detail has stuck with me over the nearly 20 years since I last read it, and that was the significance of the crocheted yoke. I couldn't remember any other part of the story except that the yoke sent Abigail back in time. Often when I re-read a book I loved as a child and haven't read since they don't quite live up to my memories, but Playing Beatie Bow definitely did. I empathised with Abigail's feelings over the possibility of her separated parents getting back together after 4 years and understood her anger. Abigail's adolescent romance with Judah was believable and I really liked the way Park wrappped the end of the story up by making her next-door neighbours descendants of the Bows in order to tell us all what finally happened to the different members of the family. I think the book, which was first published in 1980, has aged really well. Park didn't use too many outdated expressions (one instance of the use of 'groovy' springs to mind, but that's all) and because most of the book is spent in 1873 it doesn't matter how much Sydney has changed in the last 30 years, the Sydney of 1980 is not described very much anyway. The only thing that Abigail would do differently today is that in order to find out about the Bows she wouldn't go to the library and turn the pages of physical copies of the newspaper looking for obituaries or news reports for the family, she would of course use the internet and thank goodness she didn't have to do it all manually.
Playing Beatie Bow by Ruth Park
and beautifully narrated by Kate Hood

I have been listening to this on audio just a chapter or two at a time and loved it!

The setting is in Sydney, Australia, in a well worn place known as The Rocks which is an historic area in the centre of Sydney City and close to the harbour.
Built/chiselled from local sandstone and hand made bricks by some of our earliest settlers, most of whom were convict labour, its cobbled streets remain an awe inspiring reminder of our unique heritage and is a perfectly magical setting which is very befitting this story.

Although the surrounding area has changed a bit since this book was written, The Rocks is well preserved as a heritage listed area and still looks very much as it always has.

This is an area I know well...having grown up in Sydney and having spent many good times wandering there as a child and adult, It is a beautiful place steeped in history...and haunted too! It is easy to envision this endearing time-travelling Beatie Bow story unfolding there.
When a harmless little scary game called playing Beatie Bow goes awry, little Abigail finds herself suddenly transported to another place and time...a place she is sure she doesn't recognize, yet is somehow familiar.
............ ............

*Listening to this I was very much reminded of another beautifully narrated story I listened to on audio which readers of this might also like The Poppet and the Lune
by Madeline Claire Franklin
Audio version Narrated by Elizabeth Basalto.
I was feeling nostalgic about this book, and wondered if anyone else liked Playing Beatie Bow.. Lol I was heartened to see that like myself people have come back to this book repeatedly. I won't give you a break down of the book because so many others have already. And far more eloquently than I ever could. But I will say this. Like others, I first got this book around the age of twelve and you are still re-reading it at 18 & 24. I too kept my copy. And when moving to the US as a young adult, I was only able to take a handful of my favourite books with me. This was in my top two choices. I'm now 42 and it still holds a place in my top books that I love to re-read. Take a chance on reading this book, it's really worth a look. <3
The book arrived promptly and in good order and condition. I am pleased to recommend this method of buying books as I have purchased here before and am satisfied with the service.
Interesting young adult novel set in Sydney.
I've read this book twice. Even as an adult reader, still love the magic in it. A very stick-with-you classic.
I remember this book from when I was young, and I still love it. The reader is taken back in time to the late 1800s in Australia, as the character works through a few challenges. I love the theme of kids' rhymes and games being attributed to past people and stories.
A young girl follows a strangely-dressed urchin and winds up in Victorian-era Sydney. I love the sardonic 14-year-old protagonist in this. When an annoying sickly boy says if he lives to his next birthday he'll be 10, she thinks to herself, `Why bother?" When he tells her she's ugly, she evenly replies that he's not a dazzler himself. The author gives the character such honesty and perceptiveness and a realistically contradictory balance of wry toughness and confused vulnerability, it seemed like one of the most real literary voices I've ever heard.

Great details about the era without feeling forced in or a like a history lesson -- just observed with interest and wonder, and then growing acclimation.

The ending is very satisfying -- the loose ends are tied up with a "Bow," you might say.