My first reaction is that maybe I am just a little too old for this book. But I have this idea that no book is to passe for anyone. No book is old nor new for someone who wanted to read, who wanted to experience. But sometimes, it just has a difference if you read the right book at the right age. I know I would have had different reactions in some of the scenes had I read it when I was younger.
Anyway.
I found it fascinating that the the characters were all made of cards. I initially thought it kind of funny. But the fascination continued when the cards have their numbers as their names, and that they have their own roles in the adventure. The knave was tried for something that I didn't even find out if he did or did not do. I don't really know if I wasn't just paying too much attention to the book or the book really didn't tell. This happens to me every once in while.
Anyway, this book reminds me of a local movie. That one with Ai-ai delas Alas entitled "Ang Tanging Ina" where all the offsprings of the mother were named by numbers. But of course, not to be to obvious, it was Uno, Dos, Tres and so on.
The last sentence of the book:
Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and how she would keep, through all her riper years, the simple and loving heart of her childhood; and how she would gather about her other little children, and make their eyes bright and eager with many a strange tale, perhaps even with a dream of Wonderland of long ago; and how she would feel with all their simple sorrows, and found a pleasure in all their simple joys, remembering her own child-life, and the happy summer days.
I don't know if I ever mentioned (since I have been very forgetful these days, that I read this on e-Book. And here is the link:
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