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The Whipping Boy
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bookshelves: 1986, award-newberry, award-dorothy-canfield-fisher, award-various, bage-middle-grade, classic, favorite, genre-fantasy, genre-travel, histiorical, myth-folktale-fable, own, sub-cities, sub-food, sub-trees-forest, z-peter-sis
Mar 18, 2020
bookshelves: 1986, award-newberry, award-dorothy-canfield-fisher, award-various, bage-middle-grade, classic, favorite, genre-fantasy, genre-travel, histiorical, myth-folktale-fable, own, sub-cities, sub-food, sub-trees-forest, z-peter-sis
Read 2 times. Last read March 18, 2020.
This has been on my shelf for a while and on my TBR and it’s thin, very compact size; only 89 pages. Today, I sat down and read this. Now, it comes off my TBR.
I knew nothing of this story, but I was pleasantly surprised how this middle grade classic unfolded. A whipping boy is the boy who is whipped instead of a prince since a prince cannot be whipped by law. The prince gets in trouble and some unlucky boy has to take his punishment. It sounds horrible. But this boy learns to read and write while the prince will not.
One day the prince is so bored with life that he decides to run away with the whipping boy and out in the world it’s the boy who knows how to survive and not the prince. The prince begins to learn some life lessons, finally. There are some good adventures.
It’s a nice story that reminded me of the Prince and Pauper somewhat. I love being able to sit down and read a book in one sitting. It took me just a little over an hour to read this whole story and I think that is a little of the appeal of middle grade. You can read them in close to a sitting, well, not the new books which are much longer. I love the tomes as well. I love to sink into a long book, but it’s nice to have both. I guess short stories are the same way.
I’m glad I read this work. There are some great books that won the Newbery. I’m constantly reminded of that.
I knew nothing of this story, but I was pleasantly surprised how this middle grade classic unfolded. A whipping boy is the boy who is whipped instead of a prince since a prince cannot be whipped by law. The prince gets in trouble and some unlucky boy has to take his punishment. It sounds horrible. But this boy learns to read and write while the prince will not.
One day the prince is so bored with life that he decides to run away with the whipping boy and out in the world it’s the boy who knows how to survive and not the prince. The prince begins to learn some life lessons, finally. There are some good adventures.
It’s a nice story that reminded me of the Prince and Pauper somewhat. I love being able to sit down and read a book in one sitting. It took me just a little over an hour to read this whole story and I think that is a little of the appeal of middle grade. You can read them in close to a sitting, well, not the new books which are much longer. I love the tomes as well. I love to sink into a long book, but it’s nice to have both. I guess short stories are the same way.
I’m glad I read this work. There are some great books that won the Newbery. I’m constantly reminded of that.
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Reading Progress
Finished Reading
July 25, 2017
– Shelved as:
to-read
July 25, 2017
– Shelved
March 18, 2020
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Started Reading
March 18, 2020
– Shelved as:
1986
March 18, 2020
– Shelved as:
award-newberry
March 18, 2020
– Shelved as:
award-dorothy-canfield-fisher
March 18, 2020
– Shelved as:
award-various
March 18, 2020
– Shelved as:
bage-middle-grade
March 18, 2020
– Shelved as:
classic
March 18, 2020
– Shelved as:
favorite
March 18, 2020
– Shelved as:
genre-fantasy
March 18, 2020
– Shelved as:
genre-travel
March 18, 2020
– Shelved as:
histiorical
March 18, 2020
– Shelved as:
myth-folktale-fable
March 18, 2020
– Shelved as:
own
March 18, 2020
– Shelved as:
sub-cities
March 18, 2020
– Shelved as:
sub-food
March 18, 2020
– Shelved as:
sub-trees-forest
March 18, 2020
– Shelved as:
z-peter-sis
March 18, 2020
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Finished Reading
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Apr 20, 2020 08:59AM
I enjoyed your review. I too was reminded of 'The Prince and the Pauper' as I read your review.
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Joe wrote: "I enjoyed your review. I too was reminded of 'The Prince and the Pauper' as I read your review."I have only seen the movie, Joe. I need to read the story as I love Mark Twain's prose.
Definitely read it. It has Twain’s delightful mix of wit and satire.
Sarah wrote: "Definitely read it. It has Twain’s delightful mix of wit and satire."I would love to read some more Twain. I want to get out of this reading slump. I just bought some more books that I want to read and I haven't opened them yet. ugh.
