12/15/2023 0 Comments Raymie nightingale![]() ![]() Raymie Nightingale is a testimony to the formation of unlikely friendships and shows that love, light, and humor can exist in even the darkest times of our lives. While Raymie isn’t my favorite of the three girls, I enjoyed this charming introduction to the Three Rancheros. Plus, the audio for this one is excellent! Overall: Raymie Nightingale You may hate the plot or even the characters, but DiCamillo sure can write. The writing in this book is near-flawless. I enjoyed meeting all three girls and watching DiCamillo build their characters so effortlessly. Kate DiCamillo has been a favorite of young adult readers since the publication of her first novel, Because of Winn Dixie.That book was named a Newbery Honor book in 2001, while her later books The Tale of Desperaux and Flora and Ulysses both won the Newbery Award. It’s tightly written and full of droll lines and, yes I admit it. New York Journal of Books though this book is awash in personal tragedies, it’s not a downer. It is predictably unpredictable: a hallmark of DiCamillo’s brilliant writing. But the wonderful thing about this book and the series so far is how much these girls have grown on me. Raymie Nightingale is filled with humor, poignancy, and life-sized lessons. The setting was very disorienting at first, because historical fiction isn’t my thing. And, poor Louisiana just wants some money and food for her grandmother and herself - two squatters subsisting on tuna. Her father has run off with a dental hygienist. Raymie hopes that winning the contest will cause her father who eloped with a dental hygienist to return to their family. RAYMIE NIGHTINGALE by Kate DiCamillo RELEASE DATE: ApTen-year-old Raymie Clarke of Lister, Florida, has a plan to get her father to come back home. All three girls - mostly the first two - hope to enter and win the Little Miss Central Florida Tire competition. Raymie Clarke, Louisiana Elefante, and Beverly Tapinski meet at their baton twirling lessons. In Raymie Nightingale, set in the 1970’s (as all three books are) we meet three very different girls. After scoring an ARC of Beverly (out in September), I thought it would only be right to read the books in order. By the end the heroine does not make sense of the adult world - but, like the reader, she sees it more clearly. ![]() My interest in these books was officially piqued when the third book, Beverly, Right Here was announced earlier this year. In Raymie Nightingale there is no fantasy, but the story has an air of fable. For reference, Raymie Nightingale was published in 2016. I didn’t even know about these books until Louisiana’s Way Home released last year (2018). This is the first book in Kate DiCamillo’s much revered set of companion novels and I understand the hype now. ![]()
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