Rufus M.

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Summary: An old man writes ...
Review: I was given this book to read when I was 7 years old. I was ill at home and my mother dropped it on the bed as I had been pestering her for something to read. It looked unpromising. I liked books about war and dinosaurs and soccer. None of these seemed likely to feature in Rufus M.

Though I would not have used the word then, I was enchanted. Estes sketched out a world I wanted to leap straight into.

This is such good a book that it has stuck in my memory as a happy thought about a distant time. I found myself thinking about it as I sat at my desk this evening and googled my way here. I'm 37 tomorrow. 30 years on and it's still with me.

Sean

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Summary: Rufus M.
Review: This book is about a 7-year old boy and his imaginitive ways of going through life during a war. Rufus has many siblings and surprisingly enough he acually gets along with all of them. Rufus is an imaginative, intelligent, and adorable little boy.