Pablo of Flower Mountain

by Christine von Hagen

KIRKUS REVIEW
"A story of Honduras by the wife of a famous explorer, and a story that has more substance to it than that run of the mill tale of a child in a Latin-American setting. Pablo yearned for man's estate -- and the possession of a horse. But he liked to play and to be lazy, and he resented the 'woman's work' his mother put upon him. This is the story of how he grew up, through adventure and misadventure and under his father's wise guidance. And of how he won his wish."

Genres: Fiction

162 pages, Library Binding

Published January 1, 1942

About the author

Christine Inez Brown Von Hagen was born in California. She traveled extensively in South America and wrote a handful of children's books set in the area.

Reviews

[kendall₊ ⊹ · Rating 5 out of 5]

Cute book.

I read this with part of my home school. It was easy to read and didn't require much brain power which I liked.

It was a pretty fast read because it only has 162 pages.

Over all, good book with good morals.

[Cyd · Rating 3 out of 5]

I picked this up for two bucks at Goodwill because it looked, at a glance, like something that would have been on the shelf at my elementary school library (several decades ago). It's a sweet but realistic story of a boy moving toward manhood in a hardscrabble but happy life in Honduras, presumably in the 1940s, when it was written. I kept thinking, as I read it, that it was a gentler take on Steinbeck's The Red Pony...much gentler. Even 70 years on, it makes a nice introduction, for kids, to an unfamiliar culture.