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Minnow on the Say (Paperback)

by Philippa Pearce (Author)
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  • Paperback: 272 pages
  • Publisher: OUP Oxford; Reissue edition (4 Sep 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0192792415
  • ISBN-13: 978-0192792419
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13 x 2.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 22,709 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Two boys set out in their canoe to solve a riverside mystery in this exciting story by best-selling author, Philippa Pearce

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It's a great discovery. Right there, at the bottom of the garden, bobbing on the river, is a canoe. The Minnow. David can't help wishing he could keep her . . . The Minnow leads him to Adam, and an extraordinary summer begins. Armed with a mysterious, ancient clue, the two boys set out along the river by boat. They're determined to find the legendary lost treasure, hidden by one of Adam's ancestors hundreds of years before. But they are not the only people looking for treasure, and soon they are caught in a dangerous race against time . . .
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5.0 out of 5 stars The best, 7 May 2001
This review is from: Minnow on the Say (Oxford Children's Modern Classics) (Paperback)
This is a truly wonderful book. It has a great mystery story at its heart - with a clue that niggles away at your brain, trying to get you to work it out yourself. You really care about the characters and get caught up in all they do. The illustrations by Edward Ardizzone are tiny masterpieces that make you want to live inside them. No synopsis can do justice to the spell this story casts.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars 40 somethings - this will take you back to your childhood , 26 May 2006
By R. J. Casburn "Richard Casburn" (Felixstowe, Suffolk United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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A beautiful piece of work which features childhood from a distant but more stable and reassuring age. I first read this in the late 60s at primary school and loved it then. When I read it to my children again recently I was taken back to those innocent far off days. Philippa Pearce wrote some definitive works for children and this is one of my favourites.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Two boys in a canoe, 5 Sep 2008
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This book belongs with some of the English classics about rivers and boats, from "The Wind in the Willows" to "Three Men in a Boat". The descriptions of the long summer days spent searching for treasure up and down the River Say (I believe this is the Cam) are truly enchanting.

Like the river itself, the book has depths beyond the mystery and adventure. The subject of friendship is central to the book and the characters are all very well drawn, from the two central protagonists, the likeable "everyboy" David and the more complex adolescent Adam, to the supporting roles of Squeak Wilson and Adam's eccentric relatives.

Finally, what makes this book particularly worthwhile is that the author does not shy away from themes integral to life from class differences to the meaning of poverty to mental illness to death, which makes the story as relevant today as when it was written.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Before over-protective parenting was invented...
This is a delightful, old-fashioned adventure story and how sad that in today's world two 11-year-old boys would never be left to mess around for long days on a river. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars a wonderful, charming adventure story
I read this book when I was a child, and it was one of my favourites. Now, thirty plus years later, I have read it to my own children who have been just as captivated by it... Read more
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