Sunday, March 4, 2018

The Gammage Cup by Carol Kendall


The Gammage Cup won a Newberry Honor. It is a fun book about a bunch of outcasts that end up saving their people from danger.

                The general minnipin population remind me of Tolkien’s hobbits. They never have  any adventures or do anything unexpected. They’re even smaller than the rest of humanity (although based on other descriptions I think they’re more the size of borrowers than hobbits). That’s why Muggles, Gummy, Walter the Earl, Curly Green, and Mingy don’t fit in. They have ideas that don’t fit with the mentality of the other Minipins and for that they are banished. But when the Hairless Ones of legend return to wreck ruin upon the Minipins, it is up to these heroes that think so far outside the box to save the day. A wonderful story about not fitting in, but finding your place in the world.

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