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Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on November 1, 2009
In this retelling of Ruth Sawyer's 1941 "The Wee Christmas Cabin of Carn-na-Ween," Oona longs for a cabin of her own, but as the cast-off daughter of itinerant tinkers, she must spend her life making herself useful in her Irish village, "serving and nursing and mothering and loving." When the great famine comes, and she finds herself no longer wanted, she sets out into the sn...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2009
Oona, cast-off daughter of itinerant tinkers, longs for her own cabin. Because of Oona's lifelong unselfishness, the fairies build her one. S...Log In or Sign Up to Read More




