Adventures Here and There Through Golden Windows

Through Golden Windows #4

by Nora Beust, Grolier, Jeanne Hale

EM Hale & Co

333 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1958

About the author

Nora Ernestine Beust (1888 – July 3, 1973) was an American librarian, educator, and writer. She taught library science courses at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and worked in the United States Office of Education, as a specialist in school libraries and children's literature

Reviews

[Emily Morrill · Rating 2 out of 5]

Goodreads #3 Adventures Here and There edited by Nora Beust, Phyllis Fenner, Bernice E. Leary, Mary Katherine Reely, and Dora V. Smith is a book like no other. It is a book with 41 short stories bundled together. The first one is called Oliver goes to the Circus, and it is the introduction story getting the reader ready for the twisting and turning emotion rollercoaster. The most adventures story in some opinions is Knob Mountain Tower. It is one of the many page turners testing your ability not to scream. It deals with burglars, escape plans, and captivity. After this one, there are many more boring stories like Boonesborough, My Education, and Moy Castle. I didn’t like this book very well. It is hard to change from one story to the next. For example, reading an exciting, adrenaline boosting story to a romantic love story. And some of the stories were hard to read and had some words that I didn’t understand right away. Like in Tom Plays, Fights, and Hides, Tom says that he could lick the person that was in his neighborhood, then they fight, so I think that lick means beat up. Even though I don’t like this book, it is a great one to read to prepare for the DRP test. One of the hardest things in the DRP test is changing the entire story from the last one. This book prepares you because it also changes stories and the context is complicated. So in that view, this book is very helpful. Plus having the skills to understand complex literature helps later on in education. The stories were confusing and hard to understand, which makes it a challenging book to read. This book was also difficult to find a general theme. One of my assumptions is to treat everyone how you want to be treated. Like in Massacree where the white people wanted to kill the Indians because they heard a rumour that the Indians were going to attack their village. A little girl stopped them and said that the Indians were their friends. That story was more of an obvious one. A more difficult one was Growltiger’s Last Stand. It is where a bully cat, Growltiger, is on a boat trying to impress a lady. Then a group of other cats that were bullied decided to stand up and get rid of Growltiger. If he would of treated them nicely, then they wouldn't of got rid of him. That is why I think that the theme is to treat each other how you want to be treated. This book wasn't my favorite, but I am positive that it will help me in the future for reading tests.