The retelling is written by Jacqueline Wilson and is simply called Katy.ĭue to the age of Spyri’s Heidi, I have decided to forgive it for the values it presents-it is not as bad as the modern books with the same values. To be fair, there are a few books I have read recently where the disabled characters are portrayed in a realistic way two of the books I have also reviewed: Amy and Matthew, and I have also read a retelling of What Katy Did. No discrimination going around in the world that will make life difficult for disabled people, right? You’d think, coming from different time periods, literature would have changed. However, I don’t hate the victorian disabled literature genre in the same way that I do modern literature, for example, Me Before You and Good Kings, Bad Kings. I chose to look at disability, and although I didn’t choose Spyri as one of the authors, this book did influence my essay. This could mean anything from their responsibility to accurately represent a minority, such as a disability, to their responsibility in grammar, genre, authenticity. For one of my coursework pieces, we were looking into the responsibility of the writer.
I’ve developed a sort of distaste to Victorian literature-or to be exact, their views on disability. So… I’ve come back to this book review to give it an update on what I have learned-and to follow the style of my more up-to-date book reviews. Since then, I have done an amazing module in Creative Writing: Writing and Responsibility. This was one of my first book reviews for Berg’s Book Club back when it … well, when the club had no name. However, appreciating it is a book of it’s time, there are some comic scenes in the book that makes it enjoyable to read. Like many victorian literature with disabled characters, this book contains unbelievable miracles. A Victorian classic about a girl who lives in the alps and makes friends with a disabled girl. Welcome to another edition of Berg’s Book Club where you can get all your book review needs.
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