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Please begin by reading my review of Puck of Pook's Hill. This is its sequel. Through the magic of Puck, an elemental spirit dwelling in England, we are able to see various bits of English, Continental European, and American history. I would not advise a child under about fourteen to read it, unless the child is precocious enough to have made a hobby of reading history books. It definitely is not as magical as Puck of Pook's Hill, but it is far more informative. You meet the inventor of the stethoscope, as an English doctor and a captured French doctor try to hide from a very young woman the fact that she is dying of consumption. You meet Tallyrand. You meet an American Indian chief. You meet smugglers and conquerors. I first read it when I was five, and didn't understand a bit of it, but it was interesting. As time went on, I came to understand it more and more, until by the time I was eleven I was reading it at least once a year, just as I did Puck of Pook's Hill. The two together, plus a good history book, add up to the game in which there are rows and columns of dots, and you try to turn the dots into squares that you put your initial in. At the end of the game, the one with the most initialed squares wins. Well, with these books, you draw all the lines and initial all the squares yourself, and you win. You win big, because you understand things at a gut level that no college major in history could give you. I give this book five stars. I would give it ten if there were a way to do so.
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