Rooftoppers

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There is so much love for life, language and adventure in this book. It has you wishing you were the kind of person who could go racing around rooftops at midnight, seeing the whole of a beautiful European city laid out before you. When symbols are repeated throughout a text, they are called motifs . The repetition of these symbols shows that they are important. The first third of this book was five-star stuff. I loved Sophie and I really loved Charles (he was the best character by far) and Rundell's writing is charming. But the books sort of faded as it went on: there was not nearly enough Charles (though I liked the new characters too), and it got a little too plot-centric. And then there was the ending. What ending? Did you see an ending? Because I must have blinked and missed it. The book just ends--it doesn't really tie up anything. The climax rushes along and the book goes faster and faster and then, whoops, it's over.

Charles doesn’t think that it’s important for Sophie to behave like other young Victorian girls. He thinks it is more important for Sophie to be happy. Volchek, Dmitry; Synovitz, Ron (24 August 2017). "Ukrainian Daredevil Mellows, Won't Return To Russia For More Provocative Stunts". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty . Retrieved 2020-07-14. Matteo and some other rooftop children help Sophie to break into the police files. They find out that all the ship's musicians were recorded as being men. However, one of the musicians, called George Green , looks very similar to Sophie and is wearing a woman's shirt in a photograph. So yeah, OK, I actually did have a lot to say about this book. But I really, really loved it and I really hope other people join Sophie for her adventure because it’s truly magical. I absolutely can’t wait to see where else Ms Rundell’s stories takes me.

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Rooftoppers was a fun read. If my ten year old self had read this, surely I would have rated the book 4 stars. My adult self wasn't as invested (since I wasn't the target audience; my opinion doesn't count against children!), even though I appreciated the charm of the story. Matteo reminded me slightly of a childlike Han Alister, or perhaps a far more innocent version of a scamp from Oliver Twist.

People will easily fall in love with Charles. He is not a conventional parent and the child services certainly don't value his habit of letting a little girl wear trousers (god forbid!). He is quirky, weird and more concerned with raising a happy child, than one who fits into society's expectations. Also this: And the setting? Let’s just say I want to go to Paris again…. now please. I adore Paris and it will always have a special place in my heart so it was so refreshing to read a story set there that wasn’t immediately bogged down by all the clichés that seem to latch themselves onto it. It was lovely to read about the city from a different perspective… one slightly higher than the others, shall we say? It wasn’t compulsory to send girls to primary school until 1883, so many girls weren’t taught to read and write beyond what they needed to know at home.Caught between the upper end of childrens' and lower end of middle grade, I'm shelving the book as childrens, although readers of both age groups might find something to enjoy with Rooftoppers. This isn’t part of the review but !!!! oh Charles, let’s go on adventures! You’re magnificent and I adore your mind. There was a rooftopping "craze" in Russia around 2017. [10] Known rooftoppers [ edit ] Mustang Wanted hanging on a steel beam Here is a story that can be enjoyed by children and adults alike. It is the stuff of dreams and it is delightful. Katherine Rundell might be the cleverest children's writer working today ... [ Rooftoppers] draws on Rundell's own experiences of scaling the dreaming spires of Oxford, and does so with whimsicality, wit and a thrilling sense of adventure