Mister Pip
ABOUT
THE BOOK
Stories flourish on the island. While the lives of Pip and Magwitch and other Dickens’ characters are transformed in their new tropical setting, the locals come to the schoolhouse to tell their own tales-about the meaning of the colour blue, about broken dreams, black birds and devil women.
In Matilda’s eyes, Pip is as real as any living person. He has become her friend. She writes his name in the sand and decorates it with shells. That’s where the redskin soldiers see it, and decide they must track this stranger down. Who is this Mr Pip? The search to find him will have devastating consequences for Matilda, Mr Watts and the entire village.
NOMINATING LIBRARY COMMENTS
An outstanding novel that has received critical and popular acclaim.
A book about reading and what literature means, a book that stays with the reader long after they have closed it.
Outstanding story about Mr Watts the only white man on a Pacific Island who takes over teaching at the school after a civil war.
A wonderfully imagined and skilfully constructed novel about growing up, survival and the search for understanding. This novel shows how the meaning of names, the power of words and the pleasure of books can change lives.