Zusammenfassung
Zusammenfassung von Neun kleine Gänschen
Für wen es gedacht ist
Readers who love nursery rhymes, old-fashioned family stories and small adventures will feel at home here, as will parents and grandparents who enjoy reading aloud to children by lamplight.
Worum es in diesem Buch geht
Nine Little Goslings is a collection of nine stories for children by Susan Coolidge, the pen name of the American writer who gave the world the Katy books. It opens with a dedication poem to Mother Goose, in which the author imagines the old storyteller sitting unseen beside every cradle. Each tale that follows takes its title from a nursery rhyme and gives it a child of flesh and blood.
The children come from many places. Johnnie Carr is a convalescent who is lent to a wealthy lady, little Dickie climbs onto a rooftop in his nightgown, and Mell Davis is left to mind five children in a hot August house. Others include a minister's daughter who hates her new town, a girl in a rose garden with a nursery of dolls, a boy who builds a house of sticks, a girl who meets a circus rider, a Southern child in a hut, and a family that loses its fortune.
Coolidge writes warmly and often speaks straight to the reader, asking questions and teasing the children in her stories. In this summary you will meet each tale in turn, with its people, its trouble and what it teaches, and stop before the endings. Let us begin with Johnnie Carr and the visitor who thinks she is far too special.
In dieser Zusammenfassung
- 1Curly Locks: a girl on loanFree
- 2Goosey Goosey Gander: a boy on the roofs
- 3Little Bo Peep: a shepherdess without a flock
- 4Mistress Mary: small kindnesses cure a sulk
- 5Lady Bird: a mother of dolls
- 6One, Two, Buckle My Shoe: a boy lost in the woods
- 7Ride a Cock-Horse: a girl meets a circus rider
- 8Lady Queen Anne: a happy child in hard times
- 9Up, Up, Up, and Down, Down, Down-Y: a fortune rises and falls
Punkt 1 von 9
Curly Locks: a girl on loan
The first story, Curly Locks, belongs to the Carr family, whom readers of What Katy Did will know. Johnnie Carr, ten and a half, has been ill with fever. When she gets up again she is taller, thin and pale, and her hair grows back in tight little curls. Her sisters call her Curly, and she spends her days on the sofa, crying over sad books and complaining that nothing ever happens in Burnet.
One afternoon she sighs over Ellen Montgomery, the heroine of The Wide Wide World, who is taken up by rich relatives. Her sister Clover answers with dry humor. Then Papa walks in with a letter. A lady named Marion Joanna Inches, a school friend of Johnnie's late mother and the source of half her name, wants to stop in Burnet on her way to Mammoth Cave. She is rich, single and lives alone at a village called Inches Mills in Massachusetts.
Miss Inches arrives, takes one look at Johnnie's eyes and declares them full of soul. Nobody in the family has said such a thing before, and within four days Johnnie gives the visitor her whole heart. Miss Inches soon proposes to adopt the girl and plans Switzerland, German lessons and a winter in Stuttgart. Dr. Carr listens, laughs, and then grows nearly angry. Being a wise man, he chooses a compromise instead of a flat refusal.
He lends Johnnie for four months, until the first of October, and winks at Katy when she packs only one warm dress. Johnnie sets off, delighted by the eyeless fish and glittering crystals of the cave and by the treats along the way. At Inches Mills, though, Miss Inches, who wants to be called Mamma Marion, decides that education must go on all summer. Johnnie gets French, German and a strange recipe-like scheme for explaining great geniuses. The friends who come to tea talk of protoplasm, and children are hardly ever invited.
Her bedroom is another trial. Every picture has a meaning, and the portraits of Luther and Mahomet and a horned Moses frighten her so much that she sobs at night. In place of Moses she picks a bright print of three girls on a swing, and she is given a doll named Hortus Siccus that she cannot bear. A children's party, with Emerson read aloud over peaches and a word game that ends in hash, shows both the woman and the girl how far apart they are. After it Johnnie longs for tag, for dusting, and for her own family.
That’s 1 of 9 key points.
The rest of the summary, written and spoken, and the whole book: free to start.
- Nothing to pay today · Renews every year
- We email you before you pay
- Cancel online in two clicks
Questions about Neun kleine Gänschen
What is Nine Little Goslings about?
It is a collection of nine stories for children by Susan Coolidge. Each takes its title from a nursery rhyme and follows a child through a small adventure, such as a lost boy in the woods or a girl adopted for a summer.
Who is Mother Goose in the dedication poem?
Mother Goose is the old storyteller of nursery rhymes. In the opening poem Coolidge imagines her sitting unseen by every cradle, and she offers the book to her as a gift from a grown-up child.
Does Nine Little Goslings connect to What Katy Did?
Yes, in the first story. Johnnie Carr, called Curly, is the younger sister of Katy and Clover from the Katy books, and their father Dr. Carr appears. The other eight stories have their own casts.
Is Nine Little Goslings easy to read?
Each story stands on its own and is told in a warm, chatty voice, with lively dialogue and short scenes. That makes it pleasant to read aloud, one tale at a sitting.
What is the main message of these stories?
Coolidge suggests that cheerfulness, usefulness and small kindnesses matter more than fine things. Her children grow by helping others and by learning to value the real people and places in their lives.