Customer Reviews

Cherry Ames, Island Nurse: Book 14

5 star:		(4)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

The Cherry Ames books give a glimpse into the history of nursing. Cherry is attractive, smart, savvy, organized and detailed - everything a nurse should seem to be!

I give this 4 stars taking into consideration when it was written. By that I mean that it is perhaps a snapshot of "nursing" from the time and all the Cherry Ames books should be taken for what they are, a romp, through the eyes of Miss Ames, RN. Don't take them too seriously, just enjoy the ride. Some of the situations seem contrived and silly by current standards, but its a quick light entertaining read and there's nothing else like them that I'm aware of - a young, bright, independent female character moving from one nursing adventure to another enjoying her career and learning about life as she goes. No gratuitous sex or violence. - Fun!

I started to read Cherry Ames when I bought one from a used bookstore a couple of years ago. I bought Cherry Ames, Army Nurse because of its cover(I know, I know). She looked very excited and happy there, so I had to join her. It was a great continuation of the first two books in the series, and gave a real look of how Army nurses trained back then. From her first time at the base, to training, to a special ending, I wouldn't change a thing about the book. It was good all around.

Cherry Ames and her fellow Spencer Nursing School nurses all enlist in the Army in World War II. This is the third book in the Cherry Ames series...and I have loved all of them. Although set in a more "simplistic time", this book shows what a patriotic nurse Cherry is. She, and her fellow nurses, face difficult times during the war...but come through it with each others help. I am an RN with many years experience, and I wonder what kind of nurse I would have been during WWII. Could I have gone to war with the yearning to help that Cherry has? I hope so. Cherry is a wonderful role model, and these are wonderful books.

Easy read and I just love them all. My friends are now borrowing them to read.

Cherry's adventures in nursing and her idealism would encourage many children to consider nursing as a career. Lot's of fun.

Okay, im a BIG collector of Grosset and Dunlap and other publishers Childrens Books from the 1910's, all the way to the 1960's (Exspecially Mystery Ones), from Nancy Drew, to The Rover Boys. I was out Antiqeing when I found "Cherry Ames: Seinor Nurse" (I had to write a Review about it Here because theres no page for it!), w/ it's dust-jaket in good condition, for a really good price. I've heared wonderful thing's about the series, so I decided to give it a shot. I don't know if it was because I never read the first one, or what, but I never really could get into it. Things eventually started to move along...Before I just decided to quit reading. Because I don't know much about being a nurse, and medical techniques, yadda, yadda, yadda, I found this book a bit confusing at times...Also, I just got bored stiff. The whole book is mainly about Cherry on Check-Ups, taking care of patients, and her assiting doctors in the operating room. As you can see, this is exactly fascinating reading. All in all, I think I'll stick to mysterys instead of medical guides...