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product_id: 2562638
title: "The Wild Book Paperback – January 7, 2014"
brand: "margarita engle"
price: "€ 8.45"
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# The Wild Book Paperback – January 7, 2014

**Brand:** margarita engle
**Price:** € 8.45
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- **What is this?** The Wild Book Paperback – January 7, 2014 by margarita engle
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Growing Up With a Wild Book
  

*by C***E on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 20, 2014*

I loved this book and can think of so many people I would like to buy a copy for, not just because it is a great story, but because of the unique prose, which makes us all appreciate just how wonderful words can be and why they are worth persevering with.Fefa is dyslexic. Reading makes her feel dizzy. She has never been a great fan of words, the letters get mixed up and make her feel anxious. The doctor has diagnosed 'word blindness'.  "Some children can see everything except words.  They are only blind on paper" he says.Fefa's mother refuses to accept his verdict.  "Seeds of learning grow slowly" she assures me.She presents her daughter with a book and encourages her:  "Think of this little book as a garden, throw wild flower seeds all over each page, let the words sprout like seedlings and then relax and watch as your wild diary grows."Fefa opens the book hesitantly, finds the pages blank within but wide open to her imagination, a place where she can write unobserved, in any way she wishes.Soon Fefa is nurturing the slow transforming pages of her wild book as she would a precious flower garden, turning those awkward spiky, complex letters into words of beauty and importance.Margarita Engle's delightful 'The Wild Book' is a tribute in verse inspired by stories told to her by her maternal grandmother, a young girl growing up in rural Cuba, struggling with dyslexia. It will be enjoyed by readers of all ages, both those who struggle with and those who adore words and of course, lovers of the blank page journal everywhere.  It is a book to read and reread, silently and out loud."No one in my family ever throws anything away, not even an old story that can be told and retold late at night, to make the deep darkness feel a little less lonely."It is a magical story of a little girl coping with school, homework, older brothers, being left behind as the others go off to boarding school, of facing family threats and danger; all part of daily life on the farm and in the village, aided by a loving mother and uncle who love to recite poetry.Now couldn't we all do with a wild book...

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Heart-Worming Story
  

*by V***C on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 16, 2014*

Margarita Engle’s poetic soul came through in full glow in The Wild Book, a beautifully written tribute to her grandmother who as a child suffered “word blindness” (today’s dyslexia). Beside this heart-warming story, Engle masterfully weaves in a portrayal of a Cuban family during a turbulent, fearful time at the break of the 20th century. Fefa’s mother, who loved poetry and reading, and Fefa’s  brother, who wanted to become a teacher, helped Fefa become a reader and writer, encouraging her patience and belief in herself. At the end, Fefa’s observant nature as well as her effort to learn how to read and write in a blank notebook she received from her mother help her family discover a criminal who lives on their farm and is ready to kidnap their children and blackmail the family that would never have enough money to pay for all the kidnapped children. This novel in verse depicts Engle’s deep connectedness, love, and understanding of her Cuban heritage.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Beautifully written
  

*by A***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 30, 2019*

Beautifully written the main character’s dyslexia is interwoven into a beautiful story told in verse (not rhyming). We got it as part of a book series for Dyslexia Awareness Month at my son’s school (for the teachers to read to the students). It did have some mature content (unwanted affections of an older man, injury, war) but we bought it for the 5th grade class so I’m not sure if that’s pretty typical (my child is much younger).

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