LitPick Review
"A Traveller in Time " by Allison Uttley, is the story of a little known tale lost to one of the most well known eras of history. The Elizabethan times , also known as the Shakespearean times was a great Golden Age of England with much credit to Queen Elizabeth the wonderful.Yeah, everyone knows that. What people do not know, however , is that she quietly got rid of her cousin , Mary, Queen of Scots , her main opponent. Penelope Cameron is sent to London to her Aunts farm , Thackers ,which ,in a different era is the place of Queen Mary's escape route and ardently devout supporters.Penelope is caught in a tug of war of time between the 1930's and the Elizabethan age, where she comes to love the era that is not her own.
Opinion:
I think this is an awesome book....for a girl living in the early 1900s. Uttley is an incredibly gifted writer with a knack for comprehensive and eloquent use of lexicon. Honestly, it was the first time I had ever actually seen the word "flibbertigibbet" used to describe someone. But sadly, the average 2011 child can't handle the vocabulary and would be yawning real soon while reading the overly descriptive writing. I would not recommend this book to anyone, but if they had spunk and wanted to try anyways ...I will just give this one warning: THIS BOOK WAS WRITTEN IN THE 1900S !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
