Victoria C. (vickielee) reviewed Isabel: Taking Wing (Girls of Many Lands) on + 11 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
I loved this series as a child and was glad to read Isabel's story. I love the era where the story takes place so I found it easy to enjoy. Isabel shows the potential that many great historical women have shown during their life times and Annie Dalton paints a picture that is easy to see. Although the books are designed for readers of a certain age I enjoyed it through and through.
Takes place in London, 1592. Printed by AmericanGirl books. Isabel knows women are supposed to stay at home and be quiet, but she longs for adventure.
London 1502 Girls must always be good and stay at home. But when you are a boy, the whole world can be your home. Men build houses and ships and sail off to discover strange new lands. But women must stay indoors, sewing stitches so fine that no one will ever see them. Our work is only visible if we do it badly. Aunt Elinor says I must be ladylike, like Sabine, But I will never be like Sabine in a thousand years....Inside cover: Twelve-year-old Isabel Campion dreams of freedom and adventure, especially now that her older sister, Sabine, is to be married-and all the household duties will fall to Isabel. When Isabel seizes a chance to sneak away to see a play, it ends in disaster. Isabel's found out, and her father sends her away from London to live with her aunt, whom Isabel hardly knows. On the way, Isabel is attacked by brigands. They leave her alive, but completely lost and alone. A band of traveling players takes Isabel along with them-disguised as a boy for safety. Isabel knows that the life of an actor is only temporary and ultimately not for her. But what is? I enjoyed her adventures of self discovery and coming to terms with her life's goals. If you enjoy the American Girls and other Girls of Many Lands books-you'll like this as well.
I thought this was a very good book! It was very exciting, and just a great read! I would say it would be for ages 12-16.
This book, Isabel: Taking Wing, was written by Annie Dalton. It was set in the Elizabethan age in London, in the year 1592. It is the first of the five books in the series Girls of Many Lands, which tells about girls in history, how they are alike and different from girls today.
Isabel: Taking Wing has about 180 pages and 12 chapters. In addition to the story, the author put a section in the back of the book that tells what the women wore, as well as historical facts and pictures about Queen Elizabeth I and Shakespeare's theater. This book comes with a colorful Isabel bookmark where you can keep your place in the book.
This book has a very colorful picture of Isabel on the front, but no pictures while you are reading the story. But I do like how the author wrote the book in first person, where you can feel what Isabel felt. She really described Isabel's thoughts and dreams in an exciting, fun to read way. I love the way the author filled this book with happy, sad and exciting times that Isabel experienced in her life.
Isabel is a 12-year-old girl growing up in a wealthy house in London. The author tells how Isabel grows tired of endless chores to prepare her for being a lady. So she sneaks out to see a Shakespeare play, but she is found out and banished to live at her aunt's house in the countryside. On the way there she is attacked by thieves. They leave her unharmed, but lost and alone. She then joins a band of actors, disguised as a boy, and finally gets a taste of the freedom she longs for. But it is not the freedom she imagined it to be. By the end of the book, though, she is reunited with her family, and discovers what freedom really means.
This book has many historical details, as well as good humor. It tells how women were expected to run the household and men to earn the money, like trading overseas that was Isabel's father's job. As Isabel bluntly put it, "Women must stay indoors, sewing stitches so fine that no one will ever see them. Our work is only visible if we do it badly. But men's work is very visible if you do it wisely." Isabel also says, "Girls must always be good and stay at home. But when you are a boy the world can be your home."
Isabel longs for adventure, and finds it in this book, and you will too!
Isabel: Taking Wing has about 180 pages and 12 chapters. In addition to the story, the author put a section in the back of the book that tells what the women wore, as well as historical facts and pictures about Queen Elizabeth I and Shakespeare's theater. This book comes with a colorful Isabel bookmark where you can keep your place in the book.
This book has a very colorful picture of Isabel on the front, but no pictures while you are reading the story. But I do like how the author wrote the book in first person, where you can feel what Isabel felt. She really described Isabel's thoughts and dreams in an exciting, fun to read way. I love the way the author filled this book with happy, sad and exciting times that Isabel experienced in her life.
Isabel is a 12-year-old girl growing up in a wealthy house in London. The author tells how Isabel grows tired of endless chores to prepare her for being a lady. So she sneaks out to see a Shakespeare play, but she is found out and banished to live at her aunt's house in the countryside. On the way there she is attacked by thieves. They leave her unharmed, but lost and alone. She then joins a band of actors, disguised as a boy, and finally gets a taste of the freedom she longs for. But it is not the freedom she imagined it to be. By the end of the book, though, she is reunited with her family, and discovers what freedom really means.
This book has many historical details, as well as good humor. It tells how women were expected to run the household and men to earn the money, like trading overseas that was Isabel's father's job. As Isabel bluntly put it, "Women must stay indoors, sewing stitches so fine that no one will ever see them. Our work is only visible if we do it badly. But men's work is very visible if you do it wisely." Isabel also says, "Girls must always be good and stay at home. But when you are a boy the world can be your home."
Isabel longs for adventure, and finds it in this book, and you will too!
