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Title	:	The Cuckoo Clock
Author	:	Mrs. Molesworth
Book Format	:	hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 165 pages
Published	:	1954 by Dutton (first published 1877)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Fiction. Classics. Childrens

The Cuckoo Clock

Mrs. Molesworth

hardcover | Pages: 165 pages

Rating: 3.63 | 235 Users | 29 Reviews

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I didn't read this edition but a 1930 one with Walter Crane Illustrations (of which I would've liked more).

It was neither as preachy as much Victorian children's literature nor as exciting as the best. There were some obvious didactic efforts and some interesting or pretty scenes, but overall I found in a little dull.

As a child I would have liked best the brief visit to the cuckoo's house. As an adult I found most interesting the penultimate introduction of the little neighbor boy, Phil, and what it reveals about class assumption and gender.

There were a lot of pretty standard "girly" elements: Griselda meets the flower fairies and gets a pretty dress for a banquet (which, interestingly, turns out to be very boring) and the virtues promoted are the standard feminine ones of obedience, silence, politeness and lack of complaint in the face of illness, boredom, and pointless tasks.

Fine but definitely not an essential read unless one is researching less-well-known Victorian fantasy.

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I remember my grandmother reading this book aloud to me as a child. I wanted so badly to go into a cuckoo clock and have adventures! Author also wrote "The Tapestry Room", which has a similar style.

I read this as a child. Who knows what I would think of it now, but as a seven year old, I was enthralled. The illustrated old book I read was the perfect thing to find in my grandparents old house on a dull Saturday afternoon. There is something wonderful, when you are young, about reading of a lonely child alone, who has an adventure. Think Alice in Wonderland or the Secret Garden and you get the appeal.

Mary Louisa Molesworth, née Stewart was an English writer of children's stories who wrote for children under the name of Mrs Molesworth. Her first novels, for adult readers, Lover and Husband (1869) to Cicely (1874), appeared under the pseudonym of Ennis Graham. Her name occasionally appears in print as M.L.S. Molesworth.She was born in Rotterdam, a daughter of Charles Augustus Stewart (18091873)

Suffers from many of the faults of Victorian children's books (everyone learning to be good little girls and boys and grow up not to need fairy companions, etc.), but I have such happy memories of being read it as a bedtime story!

An equally charming and instructional fantasy story for young girls first published in 1877. Miss Griselda becomes lonely after being sent to live with her great-aunts in their big house, where she finds friendship and learns a lesson or two about things from the magical cuckoo of an antique clock.The magic involves being shrunk in size in order to fit inside both the clock and an ornate Chinese cabinet, taking a nighttime flight to the dark side of the moon and - the best part of the story -

This fantasy book was really, really good. The little girl goes on magical trips with the cuckoo in the cuckoo clock. It kept us in suspense wondering where she would go next and if she would ever find fairyland....My son asked if we could start it again.

No," said Griselda, "I don't; and I don't know what you mean, and I don't think I want to know what you mean. I want to talk about playing.