Ebook {Epub PDF} The Girl Savage by Katherine Rundell

― Katherine Rundell, quote from The Girl Savage “A beetle lumbered up onto her arm, and she stilled herself, enjoying the tickling feeling of its thread-thin feet. It was deep green with shimmers of blue and turquoise, with pitch-black legs.  · The Girl Savage by Katherine Rundell tells about the life of a girl living in Africa with her father. Wilhelmina Silver’s world is really wonderful and she says it is "golden". She lives half wild on an African farm. Apparently every day is a day not to forget. The Girl Savage. (5 reviews. with an average rating of 3 out of 5.) Author: Katherine Rundell. Publisher: Faber Children's Books. Wilhelmina Silver leads a charmed life, running free and half-wild on the farm in Zimbabwe where her father works. But when her home is sold, she is torn from all that is precious to her - her best friend, her adopted monkey, her pet horse - and banished to an inhospitable boarding school 3/5(5).

Katherine Rundell was born in and grew up in Africa and Europe. In she was elected a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. Her first book,The Girl Savage, was born of her love of Zimbabwe and her own childhood there; her second, Rooftoppers,was inspired by summers working in Paris and by night-time trespassing on the rooftops of Oxford colleges. The Girl Savage. Katherine Rundell. Faber Faber, Jan 6, - Juvenile Fiction - pages. 3 Reviews. Wilhelmina Silver's world is golden. Living half-wild on an African farm with her horse, her monkey and her best friend, every day is beautiful. Katherine Rundell grew up in Africa and Europe. Her first book, The Girl Savage, was born of her love of Zimbabwe and her own childhood there; her second, Rooftoppers, was inspired by summers.

Nonetheless, The Girl Savage is an exhilarating debut by Rundell, it has echoes of Rumer Godden’s The Diddakoi, which Rundell acknowledges by giving Will’s monkey the name of Godden’s heroine, Kezia. Post navigation. The Abused Werewolf Rescue Group Pegasus and the Flame. ― Katherine Rundell, quote from The Girl Savage “A beetle lumbered up onto her arm, and she stilled herself, enjoying the tickling feeling of its thread-thin feet. It was deep green with shimmers of blue and turquoise, with pitch-black legs. The Girl Savage is an almost [book:A Little Princess|] style story about Will, a girl who has grown up on an African farm with her father, running wild with the animals and her best friend. When her world is turned upside-down and she is sent to boarding school in England, my heart broke.