Author: Elise Primavera
Genre: Fiction, Children’s
About the book…
Some parents are very busy, so busy they forget to teach their children things like how to brush their teeth, or what birthday cake is, or how to climb a tree. The five busiest parents in the world especially have this problem and lucky for their five daughters, there’s the Great Rapscott School for the Daughters of Busy Parents run by Ms. Rapscott. Arriving in boxes on the wind, the new students arrive at the lighthouse the school is housed in never guessing all the new and usual things they’ll be learning on their adventures.
What I think…
I loved this book. It’s like reading The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie toned down for kids and with lots of whimsy, with a bit of Roald Dahl and multiple other fantastical classic children’s nannies and teachers mixed in.
The characters were funny and unusual. It was well written with seamless transitions into the more fantastical parts that made things like riding on the wind or getting to the mountains through a freezer in a very large ice cream parlor where it’s beginning to storm seem perfectly normal everyday activities.
It also had charming illustrations. Plus who doesn’t love a magical teacher who has corgis named Lewis and Clark as assistants!
To sum it all up…
Wonderful children’s book (with an equally as wonderful sequel), which I highly, highly, highly recommend. ♥
