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Mennyms in the wilderness

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we are twins, and usually have the same taste in books. when annie brought home this book and started reading it, she couldn't stop!!! she read the whole book in one day!! then, i tried reading it and read it all in one day! this book really keeps you on your toes. it is full of adventure and is extremely humorous. we especially liked the part when they were following Albert Pond through the wilderness, because it was full of adventure, and you never knew what was going to happen next!!! we think every person should have the oppurtunity to read this wonderful book!

I read this book before I read the prequil, The Mennyms. It didn't really matter, because this one is soooo much better and easyer(sp) to understand than the 1st one. I love my copie. I've read this book( and I'm proud ) 4 TIMES! I read the first one recently, and It was not very informative. I learned more about the Mennyms in Mennyms in the Wilderness than in The Mennyms! I'm not saying don't read The Mennyms, But this is a must read Like I said. Too Bad My Library Only Has The Mennyms and The Mennyms in the Wilderness. I am HOPING to get the rest of the Mennym books this X-mas. See Ya!

With tender insight into human nature, extremely clever plotting and stormy family dynamics, Sylvia Waugh has written a delightful sequel to THE MENYMS. This large family of rag dolls--made by dear, deceased Aunt Kate--leads a secluded life in a quiet residential area; they Pretend both indoors and outside (for the benefit of neighbors) to perform the normal daily tasks of real people. But the fear of discovery--that they are not human after all--demands both caution (usually) and deception as ways of life.

This story opens with a warning letter from the Real Albert Pond that the area will be razed for a new highway project. Having been instructed by Aunt Kate's ghost to protect her endangered creations, modest Albert loyally undertakes to defend his new "relatives" by transferring them to his ancient homestead in the country, Comus House. In learning to love this family--with all their foibles, squabbles and passionate attitudes--Albert must learn to live in two worlds. Can he become man enough to face a variety of dangers for love of this group of oddball rag dolls? The fascinating storyline is interspersed with struggles of intergenerational relationships: a runaway and a kidnapping and an impending Bonfire provide literary excitement. A charmer--for kids of all ages!

Read aloud. Waugh's second book about the Mennyms, living ragdolls with all too human characteristics. This time the Mennyms lifeis threatened by the local government's plan to tear down the Grove for a new road. Albert Pond, a human relative of Aunt Kate, the dolls' creator, is drawn into their lives, with difficulty on both sides, and helps to preserve their secret. A lot of fun to read aloud (or silently). Waugh writes well; having been a teacher she recognises good writing, i suspect, and is a wonderful developer of character. There are a couple of moments in the plot where i feel it develops a little less strongly than it might -- Albert's interest in another, newfound, relative is one -- but the overall story is a delight.

This is the second book in the Mennyms series. The Mennyms are a family of life-sized rag dolls. This book really isn't about this family in the wilderness; they are moved out of their house by a real man named Albert Pond. They live in his house untill it is O.K. for them to move back into ther house. This book wasn't as good as The Mennyms, their first book, but never the less a great read. I hope you read this book. It is good for 4th to 6th graders.

After reading the first book in this series my daughter, my mother, and I were all anxious to read this. All three of us liked it much better then the first book.

I read this book, very quickly, faster then I did other booksbecasue I loved it so much well done to Sylvia, I think shes a greatauthor,a nd I'm going to read all the books I can find by her.

I loved this book because it was a thrilling sequal to The Mennyms

The general idea in the Mennyms series is a classic one: A family that isn't quite human tries to escape the notice of real people.
The greatest books in the genre are the books in the "Borrowers" series. But there's a problem every writer of these stories faces: You have to know where to stop-you have to decide exactly how human your characters should be. That's where Sylvia Waugh fails: Her living rag dolls are too human to be dolls and too dollish to be people.
This problem didn't exist in the wonderful first book, the Mennyms, because the whole book was about being dolls in people's world, and about what they can and can't do, and handled the unusual plot and characters with charm and beauty. But in "The Mennyms in the Wilderness", most of the Mennyms' adventures are very human, and just when you begin to forget that they are dolls, Waugh gives you a clue that reminds you "Hey, they're dolls, just pieces of cloth". These moments are annoying and frustrating, you feel cheated, betrayed. And there's no good reason for that, it doesn't move the plot anywhere.
Waugh's characters are dolls, but except for the fact that they have to hide all the time, their dollishness doesn't have any effect on the plot, except in ruining the lovely human moments, which are numerous in this book. Dear Sylvia Waugh, if you want to center on their being dolls, make the whole story move around that idea. If you want to make them as human as possible, make them people. I'm not saying that dolls shouldn't be human, I'm just saying that the book should center around the discussion of that difference. The first book in the series was a promise to a different, lovely new series of books. That promise wasn't kept.