I received a digital copy of the reprint of Far To Go by Noel Streatfeild originally published in 1976 and re-released 3/8/22 in exchange for an honest review.
Set in London and the surrounding area this is a historical older elementary school age style book. I had not read anything by this author but it reminded me somewhat of Stuart Little in that it is a fantastical series of adventures that do not shy away from large vocabulary words.
I requested this book primarily because You’ve Got Mail is one of my favorite movies - unsurprising for a bookworm I know and when I saw this book on netgalley I was immediately transported to the scene where Meg Ryans character visits the big box book store that put her shop out of business and a customer asks for The Shoe Books and the employee has no idea and she has to spell the authors name while trying not to cry.
I’m a boy mom to to 5 and 8 year olds. I do not think the 5 year old would have the attention span for this and while the cover is pink and our main character is a girl the adventure of it makes it accessible to boys though there is some talk about being proud to own underthings that have lace on them because it means they’re of high quality and I can see mine thinking that weird and lame but we’re I to read it aloud I would just skip over that part. Obviously this book has stood the test of time. I hope everyone that reads it googles jellied eels half way through like I had to. 5/5
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