An Episode of Sparrows by Rumer Godden
This book was a sweet story, written in “old story style.” A
bit like The Secret Garden, and yet, quite different. The story mainly focuses
on three children (“sparrows”) who live in poor circumstances, on the same
street, in post-war London. The little girl is overcome with a passionate
desire to plant her own garden, but since she is poor, even “good garden earth”
(dirt!) is very hard to come by. Planting and cultivating the garden brings two
of the children together as friends, and the third one sometimes tags along
when they dig up dirt under cover of darkness. The featured adults in the story
are also folks with deep desires, and this tale illustrates the truth that
no-one’s deep longing should be sniffed at. To quote from the story: “You are
making a mountain out of a molehill,” said Angela. Olivia was suddenly inspired
to answer, “A molehill can be a mountain to a sparrow.”
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