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The Diddakoi: Complete & Unabridged

Author: Rumer Godden
Creator: Lynda Bellingham
Publisher: Chivers Children's Audio Books
Category: Book

Buy Used: Ł105.36

Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars

4 reviews
Sales Rank: 1021849

Format: Audiobook
Media: Audio Cassette
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6.5 x 1

ISBN: 0745184979
EAN: 9780745184975
ASIN: 0745184979

Publication Date: March 1989
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Also Available In:

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•	Hardcover - The Diddakoi
•	School & Library Binding - Gypsy Girl
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•	Unknown Binding - The diddakoi
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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars

A Beautiful Tale - A must-read for adults and children alike. February 1, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful

The Diddakoi is a story I remember reading as a young child. Twenty-odd years later, it was still in my heart. To pick it up again was to re-enter a world that I had not visited in far too long. As well as the characterisation being perfectly balanced, Rumer Godden paints a precise picture in your mind with lively and colourful images. I loved it as a child and now I love it even more.

5 out of 5 stars

A many layered gem December 19, 2004
14 out of 15 found this review helpful

This is a lovely little book which contains many more layers more than the rather bland synopsis describes. It is a book for both children and adults which explores issues of racism, child abuse, traditional differences and suspicions with empathy and realism. Any child who has been bullied will be familiar with what Kizzy suffers at school, and will be heartened to find there are solutions offered in this tale. Kindness by strangers to a lonely but spirited little girl wins through against well-meaning but insensitive and sometimes cruel intentions, and it has a happy and realistic ending. I was given the book aged about 10 and have always loved it, I wholeheartedly recommend it.

5 out of 5 stars

Nostalgic, charming but with a gutsy and believable heroine August 14, 2001
11 out of 11 found this review helpful

This is a frank account of a child who is wary of and is disliked by other children because of her gypsy background. But her gutsiness and loneliness will touch you! I read this years ago as a little girl and loved it, and thoroughly enjoyed Lynda Bellingham's excellent reading. It is nostalgic, charming and perhaps old fashioned but it kept both my daughters ( 9 and 6) really entertained and wanting more on a long drive to Cornwall. Excellent.

5 out of 5 stars

A deft and incisive study of alienation and acceptance February 10, 2001
13 out of 13 found this review helpful

I first read this (at least 5 times!) as a child and was stunned by the remarkably frank and at times painful way a child who is perceived as "different" is treated by society as a whole. Adults are supposed to "know better" but here they are portrayed as average, flawed human beings. A triumph of a book which should be requisite reading for all adults and children; the studies of a (sadly) lost way of life are also a delight.