Lloyd Jones
1) Mister Pip
Author
Formats
Description
After the trouble starts and the soldiers arrive on Matilda’s island, only one white person stays behind. Mr. Watts, whom the kids call Pop Eye, wears a red nose and pulls his wife around on a trolley, and he steps in to teach the children when there is no one else. His only lessons consist of reading from his battered copy of Great Expectations, a book by his friend Mr. Dickens.
For Matilda, Dickens’s hero Pip becomes as real...
For Matilda, Dickens’s hero Pip becomes as real...
4) Mr. Pip
Formats
Description
"As a war rages on in the province of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea, a young girl becomes transfixed by the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations, which is being read at school by the only white man in the village"--www.imdb.com.
Search Tools Get RSS Feed Email this Search