The first thing a person wakes up in the morning does is to clean itself up and sit with a strong cup of tea with the newspaper. As a child, I am not interested in newspapers. It’s obvious. But i would like to tell you about a girl I met....in a book!
This girl is from Eva Ibbotson's Star of Kazan. Published by Macmillan, this book won the Nestle` Silver Award and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. It was a character from this book I found interesting.
Pauline, a girl of 13, lived in her grandfather's house which was adjoined with a bookshop. This bookshop was their only source of income by which they could feed themselves. It was not a very popular one too, just a shop dealing with some dusty antique books on the streets of Vienna
Pauline, you see, had a scrapbook. A great, big, fat one. She used to take the daily newspaper and search for articles. Articles on bravery.
How, a boy saves his father from drowning in the middle of the Pacific ocean, How, a girl saves a child from being hit by a bull. How, a young man risked his own life by fighting dacoits in order to save a girl of 16. Pauline had been born with a weak heart. She couldn't run long distances. She couldn’t eat everything. She couldn’t ride or take part in athletic things. She uses this scrapbook to inspire herself and give her the desire to live on, so that even she gets her name in the papers one day. She confides her fantasies in her best friends, Annika and Stephan.
And then, when her best friend Annika was in danger, Pauline runs to the ship where she was being taken away by her so called mother ( you will read and find out) and faints in the attempt, but succeeds in saving her friend's life from turning into a disaster. I have learnt so much from Pauline . I wanted to share this with you.
Please read the Star of Kazan and Journey to River Sea
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