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And her roots never interfered with her dreams, and she somehow made it an inspiration to aim higher. And also, she is not perfect, and as she constantly points out, she is just a girl of whom all of us could relate to.

But somehow, I couldn't get enough of this, so, off to get a copy of the sequel Dear Enemy. But who is Daddy-Long-Legs? Read to find out :D View all 16 comments. Joudy abott my old friend.

View all 4 comments. You should read this review if: 1. Okay, or: 3. Please read this review so I can convince you otherwise. Thank you. There is something to be said for not having read the classics as a kid — provided, of course, you s You should read this review if: 1. I myself missed out on To Kill A Mockingbird until I was in my 40s, because everybody only talked about the important moral issues it discusses, and nobody mentioned how hard its writing kicks arse.

So: Daddy-Long-Legs is an absolute delight. I figured it would be cute and, given how long ago it was written, probably pretty sappy. I can deal with a little sap. Sometimes I even like it. But the young narrator, Jerusha Abbott, is mercilessly sharp and laugh-out-loud funny. Put it to you this way: My son decided to read this after he kept cracking up from all the bits I read out loud to him at the breakfast table.

Jerusha is given a scholarship to college thanks to her excellent writing. The essay that snagged her this scholarship was a bitterly funny piece about the orphanage. This book was the perfect antidote. I recently reread The Catcher in the Rye. Even without looking up, I knew right away who it was. It was Robert Ackley, this guy that roomed right next to me. Big deal. Way to be random, Deborah. We had tombstone for dessert milk and gelatin flavored with vanilla. We were kept in chapel twenty minutes later than usual to listen to a speech about womanly women.

She has just gone. You should read Daddy-Long-Legs and decide for yourself. This made for a wonderful read aloud! We love orphan stories and this was no exception! Jerusha Abbot is an 18 yr old orphan who attracts the attention of a trustee by writing a subversive essay. He offers to pay for her education to become a writer on the condition that she writes to him about her education. The rest of this story is told through Judy's letters to her trustee, whom she names Daddy Long Legs, as this is the only thing she can remember about him.

The letters are funny and enthusias This made for a wonderful read aloud! The letters are funny and enthusiastic, the reader realises something before Judy does which makes for all the more amusing reading. What really floored me after reading this positive and uplifting book was that the author died two days after childbirth, I hope her daughter found some message in this orphan story, I hope she did, and I'm sure it was a positive one.

View all 28 comments. Jun 20, Mariel rated it liked it Recommends it for: it's easy when you're big in Iran. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. It's probably one of those sad things about me that I take rootless interest in people I don't know and do a whole lot of aimless wondering.

It feels creepy on bad days. Daddy Long Legs is weird for me 'cause it felt both not creepy and totally creepy. It must have been delicious for "Daddy" to get letters from someone who didn't know who she was writing to, be privy to hopes and desires and not have to figure his own out.

Too bad the sense that he knew them too well was creepy. He had eight l It's probably one of those sad things about me that I take rootless interest in people I don't know and do a whole lot of aimless wondering.

He had eight legs and none to hold with. He was thinking with another appendage anyway. She's right! It is interesting to me that things that were loved and cast aside will be still loved somewhere else. When I was a teenager I had friends who belonged to ultra strict families religious grounds. No freedom of choice. I used to go off into reveries about what I'd survive on if I were them. I'd also take it further back and decide what I'd have been reading if I lived in another time and country presuming I was lucky enough to be able to read.

I never want to be female in "what ifs" in other countries and times. My favorite part of Daddy Long Legs is reading about how they survived on what they had then! She didn't have them before then. I've been thinking about Iranian readers of Jean Websters books. I used to email a Malay girl a few years back and she'd tell me about movies she had to watch in secret. Sometimes I'd disappoint her because I didn't value stuff like family honor. Are Websters books popular because they approach the line of freedom and step back behind firm lines of society and family?

I would mentally shelve Webster under the heading of "Safe to have". Okay, I had been on a goodreads "diet" of no pictures in reviews.

Today I am bingeing and tomorrow I will throw up all over a new review. It's all for the sake of the orphans. Daddy Long Legs is cozy and warm like inside the belly of a taun taun. It would keep you warm and it also smells kinda off, even rotten at times. Not fishy but taun taun-y. I have that taun taun with the figures! This is a picture I pulled off google images. I'm too lazy to do my own reenactment. Since I am lazy this does not count anyway. She calls him daddy.

The nick name is cute daddy long legs 'cause his shadow looked spidery and long legged. It wouldn't be creepy if she didn't ask if she should still call him daddy in the last letter, now that they are engaged. What if he says yes?! I know a guy who calls his wife "Mama". So not hot. Did he choose to sponsor her for college as grooming for future wifedom? That's gross. That's what was creepy to me. She's supposed to become a writer. Jerusha doesn't know what she wants. Sure, parents pressure their kids to be doctors or something.

If he was paying for her to attend med school she'd dump him as soon as she graduated. What is this vicarious living slash wife hunting? Don't know if I like it It's lucky for her that she didn't figure it out at first I forgave her because she grew up in an orphan asylum. Once she begins reading voraciously it is more troubling that her imagination couldn't do the numbers because she felt so grateful to the "trustee" this was creepy because inmates with special benefits are called this now for her opportunities.

It's a trap! Picture your favorite Admiral Ackbar picture here. He smells fishy. His condition is that she write letters to him, letters he'll presumably never read, as well as standard great grades stuff. The relief to finally talk was the good part.

The charm of Daddy Long Legs are the confidences that she makes in those letters. I liked how the girl tried to catch up to all the girls her own age, reading books she missed out on, the newness of academia and bigger social circles that can be taken for granted by those who have them.

The weaker part is that it is the "safe" and "allowed to have". I'm not begrudging anyone who has to have that. This is with me as a reader in mind. I wonder what other people want even as I'm hopeless at reading for anyone else. The downside is that it is one sided. When the world should have widened it cut off.

Daddy Long Legs ends too soon and footnotes the growing up past the newness. Sometimes people tell themselves things. Jerusha tells herself she's over her past of being an orphan. She's not, it made her who she was. The telling and back and forth on that felt like a nervous tic, something to do with your hands when nervous, that one cannot disguise.

Other things, being "grateful" and learning to smile through tedium was telling. Who wants to read a self help book? Letters should be like talking to yourself and to someone you care about at the same time. Mantras are not going to keep The Beatles from splitting up. Yeah, yeah it was written eons ago. She marries a bossy man who "knows what's best" for her.

If I were her friend getting letters about this guy I'd not worry about her because she knows when she's taken advantage of and told to be grateful like the mistress of the asylum she tries to scorn with tongue and cheek but cannot help biting the insides of her cheeks not to scream. I didn't fall in love with her. I'd have written back and asked questions. Maybe then. Can you believe that I used to be a letter writer? Shared correspondence is a good place for sad wonderers who want to know.

Daddy waited too long to write letters he does eventually, as Jervis. We don't get to read them. He could get to be warm too. It could have been worse. I have the Jabba playset somewhere too! But I am not posing in a bikini. The movie version stars Fred Astaire as Daddy. Flipkart Customer Certified Buyer.

I really enjoyed reading this, had a great experience. The story is good but the print is too small for children to read. Flipkart Customer Certified Buyer , Panchkula. Mahi Priyadarshi Certified Buyer , Bhagalpur. Nice story my 10yrs old daughter liked it much.

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Green hardcover with endpapers, frontis and additional black and white plates from motion picture photos, color illustrated dustjacket. The book is in very good condition with a slightly faded area to the spine corresponding with a dustjacket chip, good hinges, firm text block, clean pages, no names or other markings.

The mylar protected dustjacket is a little age-yellowed with chips to the spine ends, other wear, some old tape repairs to the reverse side, overall design and lettering except for the spine complete and in good to very good condition. Hard Cover. Decor Designers Henry Thayer, Etc. Original blue, green and white cloth with floral designs on spine and cover. An attractive oldie, clean, tight and unmarked. Webster, Jean; Ardizzone, Edward Illustrator. Lewis Carroll. Tales of Hans Christian Andersen.

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