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The Ogress and the Orphans

af Kelly Barnhill

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A National Book Award finalist and instant fantasy classic about the power of community, generosity, books, and baked goods, from the author of the beloved Newbery Medal winner The Girl Who Drank the Moon.

Stone-in-the-Glen, once a lovely town, has fallen on hard times. Fires, floods, and other calamities have caused the people to lose their library, their school, their park, and even their neighborliness. The people put their faith in the Mayor, a dazzling fellow who promises he alone can help. After all, he is a famous dragon slayer. (At least, no one has seen a dragon in his presence.) Only the clever children of the Orphan House and the kindly Ogress at the edge of town can see how dire the town's problems are.
Then one day a child goes missing from the Orphan House. At the Mayor's suggestion, all eyes turn to the Ogress. The Orphans know this can't be: the Ogress, along with a flock of excellent crows, secretly delivers gifts to the people of Stone-in-the-Glen.
But how can the Orphans tell the story of the Ogress's goodness to people who refuse to listen? And how can they make their deluded neighbors see the real villain in their midst?

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Stone-in-the-Glen was once a happy place, but it isn't so much anymore. Everyone is suspicious and keeps to themselves. The fifteen orphans, headed up by the oldest three, Anthea, Bartleby, and Cass, know it isn't right or logical. And the Ogress who lives on the edge of the town watches all with her periscope and brings deliveries, with her friends the crows, by night to all the townspeople.

There is some charm to the old-fashioned feel of this fable, with a narrator who speaks directly to the reader with asides, a bunch of orphans, and an Ogress who is treated with suspicion while the Mayor - who the reader soon discovers we should be suspicious of - rules the roost and swindles the town. It was a little too on the nose and preachy for me, with too many characters and a writing style that kept them all at arm's length. ( )
  bell7 | Jul 26, 2023 |
I was expecting another fantastically whimsical story from Kelly Barnhill about an Ogress who became friends with a set of Orphans (obviously), and while we may have gotten that in spades, I was completely sidelined by the strong social commentary that underpinned the entire narrative. Barnhill has written a fable that builds around the shattered town of Stone-in-the-Glen, a place that may have fallen on hard times but still holds an intrinsic charm that we can’t help but root for. Populated by butchers, bakers, and a houseful of Orphans (probably a few candlestick makers too), it becomes clear from early on in the narrative that something went clearly wrong with the town when its library (my heart!) mysteriously burned down. Just on the outskirts of town lives an Ogress, who may seem rough on the outside, but who we soon discover has a heart of gold and plays perfectly into her role as secret benefactor of the town. But we wouldn’t have much of a story if the Ogress simply made friends with the townsfolk, and through her kind intervention managed to revitalise the place, so Barnhill adds a wily dragon into the mix. Hiding within plain (but well-disguised) view of the townsfolk, the dragon-mayor has quietly built himself an empire of wealth while letting the town suffer around him, all of which hinges on stoking unrest amongst the citizens and pitting them against outsiders. Is the mayor starting to sound familiar, yet? It is clear that Barnhill is drawing her themes and characters from the everyday news cycle, but she weaves them into such a well-drawn fable structure that the story becomes a lovely and entertaining allegory about the power of kindness. ( )
  JaimieRiella | Apr 19, 2023 |
Stone-in-the-Glen was once a lovely place, where neighbors helped each other and there was always enough to go around. Then, one horrible night, the library burned down. That started a chain of events that led to the village becoming a sad, hardscrabble place, where people stay behind locked doors and care only for their own welfare. Some years later, an ogress with her own history of tragedy moves to a farm near the village and begins to share the bounty of her garden and forest foraging in the dark of night. But will her acts of kindness be enough to change the town?

I wanted to like this book so much. I love juvenile fantasy, and I enjoyed Barnhill's Newbery winner, The Girl Who Drank the Moon. However, I found this book a little too preachy. Even though I agree with the message that the book is pushing (Sharing good! Greed bad!), I felt like it was being shoved down my throat constantly. So, despite the charming orphans and the magical library and the crows and the lovely ogress herself, I just couldn't completely fall into the story and enjoy it for what it was. Hopefully, kids who read this book will feel differently. ( )
  foggidawn | Apr 3, 2023 |
This is a _weird_ story - the story itself is pretty simple and sweet, but the format is weird. It's kind of... mythical language? The kids are more or less normal kids, with helping and quarrels and questions, but the way they're described makes them kind of archetypes rather than people. I find the constant interjections (Listen! or I knew, of course, but no one asked me... etc etc) rather annoying. And the story is told inside out - the reader knows, completely, where and what the problem is while the characters haven't a clue (except the interjector, of course). It is a nice story, and a tearjerker near the end (as they begin to recover), but the style utterly didn't work for me - I felt like I was peering through a cloud of smoke or a veil, trying to see the story through all the clever style bits. Not for me. ( )
1 stem jjmcgaffey | Nov 15, 2022 |
Note: I accessed a digital review copy of this book through Edelweiss.
  fernandie | Sep 15, 2022 |
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Ignorance is the cause of fear. -Seneca
No act of kindess, no matter how small, is ever wasted. -Aesop
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To Rose, who is the reason the Ogress bakes, and to Charlie, who first discovered the Dragon - this book is lovingly dedicated.
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It was said that the Library housed the heart of the town. And the mind of the town. It had ... books so numerous they seemed to bend both space and time. (p. 66)
Curiosity is a powerful state of being - full of possibility. Curiosity doesn't sit still. It moves. It's awfully close to magic. (p. 79)
Not all dragons are kind.

Not all dragons are generous.

Not all dragons are good.

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Indeed, it turned out that the lack of weeping, when the Ogress's sorrow became so great that all she could feel was nothing, was more alarming than the weeping itself. (p. 309)
...the Ogress's love and care kept the garden's soil warm and the plants thriving long after the nearby farms succumbed to the killing cold. It wasn't magic, exactly. But it was close. (p. 310 and last 2 lines repeated elsewhere)
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Juvenile Fiction. Juvenile Literature. Mystery. HTML:

A National Book Award finalist and instant fantasy classic about the power of community, generosity, books, and baked goods, from the author of the beloved Newbery Medal winner The Girl Who Drank the Moon.

Stone-in-the-Glen, once a lovely town, has fallen on hard times. Fires, floods, and other calamities have caused the people to lose their library, their school, their park, and even their neighborliness. The people put their faith in the Mayor, a dazzling fellow who promises he alone can help. After all, he is a famous dragon slayer. (At least, no one has seen a dragon in his presence.) Only the clever children of the Orphan House and the kindly Ogress at the edge of town can see how dire the town's problems are.
Then one day a child goes missing from the Orphan House. At the Mayor's suggestion, all eyes turn to the Ogress. The Orphans know this can't be: the Ogress, along with a flock of excellent crows, secretly delivers gifts to the people of Stone-in-the-Glen.
But how can the Orphans tell the story of the Ogress's goodness to people who refuse to listen? And how can they make their deluded neighbors see the real villain in their midst?

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