Opal: The Journal of an Understanding Heart - Opal Whiteley

Descriere

Like Watership Down and The Education of Little Tree, this lyrical, lovely, and deeply touching journal kept by a six-year-old girl living in an Oregon lumber camp at the turn of the century is a book that will appeal to all ages. Enchanting . . . Opal transforms bleak and loveless circumstances into a life-affirming fable.--San Francisco Chronicle. nA lyrical, lovely, and deeply touching adaptation of an authentic journal kept by an orphaned six-year-old girl--later believed to be a French princess--living in an Oregon lumber camp at the turn of the century. 24 black-and-white photographs.