Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster: The Original Illustrated Works and Complete Biography of the Beloved American Author Paperback – October 23, 2022

What a delightful book! The author has such a fresh approach to writing and I love her humor. I love the format - letters to an unknown benefactor that reveal the heart of a young lady coming of age and finding her place in the world. This if the first book I have read by this author and I can't wait to read more!

Judy is quirky and sees the wo rld through an innocent and unique lens. Seriously, an awesome story, highly recommend! Read it!👏

I love this book.  I've read it a dozen times, maybe more, and was bereft when I couldn't find it in my stacks recently.  So when it was a freebie through Early Bird Books, I jumped at the chance to have a digital copy at least.  Though I admit i approached it with trepidation last night.  I'd just finished a book I didn't really care much for, and after rereading A Wrinkle in Time and finding that it didn't really live up to my memories, I feared that I might be setting myself up for more disappointment.And in fact, there was one, which I will discuss later in the review.  But the story itself? Still captivating.  The characters, all seen through the eyes of the narrator, Judy Abbott, are both amusing and quite human. She -- Judy/Jean Webster -- has an eye for human silliness, but a forgiving one.  It's a humane book that made me smile and gave me some warm fuzzies when I needed them.It's the story of an orphan who is sent to college by an anonymous benefactor on the condition that she writes him one letter a month to let him see how she's progressing.  But Judy, who has been an orphan since babyhood, and was raised in an orphanage, is hungry for some kind of familial contact, so she creates a kind of grandfather/father/uncle figure in her mind, and addresses her benefactor as "Daddy Long-Legs," since all she knows about his is that he's tall and wealthy.Her letters are warm, rich, and amusing, and it's easy to fall in love with a girl who is in the process of falling in love with the whole world, a world she couldn't even imagine growing up as she did. I could read Judy's adventures all day, and recommend this book as a balm to treat weltschmerz.  Five stars for the story.Alas, three stars for the Open Road Media Young Readers version.  The original is filled with charming drawings, but Open Road didn't include any of them.  Or rather, they included exactly ONE. Why they chose to do that is beyond me.  It's either weird or it's sloppy, but that one illustration really irritated me.  I wasn't happy that all the rest were gone, but had there been some consistency I'd have shrugged and thought "Oh well."  But including one of them meant that including them all wouldn't have been a problem, and they just decided not to bother.So I'm happy to have the text, but I would recommend a different digital version.

I wanted to read something light and fun after breaking my heart with "Lily and the Octopus," and I chose "Daddy-Long-Legs" by Jean Webster. It was published in 1912 and is about a girl raised in an orphan "asylum," who is surprised to learn that she's been chosen by an anonymous benefactor, one of the asylum's trustees, to receive a college education, complete with a generous monthly allowance. Because she is not told the true name of her benefactor and has surmised only that he's tall, from a brief glimpse of him from behind, she has decided to call him Daddy-Long-Legs. As part of the arrangement, she's required to write at least monthly letters describing her educational and social progress. The story is told through her letters. The language, the humor, the sheer goodness of the letter-writer all work together to make this a delightful read. Here are a couple of passages I especially enjoyed:"The crows in the pine trees are making such a clamour! It's an intoxicating, exhilarating, calling noise. You want to close your books and be off over the hills to race with the wind."Regarding her visit to New York: "But aren't the streets entertaining? And the people? And the shops? I never saw such lovely things as there are in the windows. It makes you want to devote your life to wearing clothes."

The writing of this book is different than any book I have ever read. I love the little funny twist in it.I almost cried when they finally got together. What a love story.

Daddy Long Legs is the first book I have read by Jean Webster. I hope to get to the sequel soon!"At least homesickness is one disease that I've escaped! I never heard of anybody being asylumsick, did you?"How had I never heard of this book before? I loved it from the start, as orphans/foster care is near and dear to my heart. I loved Jerusha's letters to "daddy long legs" 😂."What do you think is my favorite book? Just now, I mean; I change every three days."I wondered if he was as amused by them as I was. They put me in mind of Little Orphan Annie. I started hoping Mr. Smith (not his real name) would write back. Then I started wishing he would be her Daddy Warbucks. Jerusha's letters are open and honest, and yes, to some, would seem impertinent. She has to write her benefactor monthly letters to keep him informed of her education. She writes frequently, sometimes eleven-page letters, and they are quite amusing. Daddy Long Legs is a quick read that left me asking a few questions. This one will linger for a while, and honestly, I'm not quite ready to let it go."The room marked with a cross is not where the murder was committed, but the one that I occupy."I have found a classic novel that I completely adored! I am glad I took a chance on a book outside my comfort zone.

NO damge and it is whatever we expected

I put this book on my Kindle. It is a beautiful story.

"I'm so awfully lonely. You are the only person I have to care for, and you are so shadowy."It feels great to have some company in a lonely life, even if it's one-sided and with a shadowy man whom you can never know but only imagine through writing letters.Join Judy in "Daddy-Long-Legs" by Jean Webster as she journeys through her college life and write letters about it to her mysterious benefactor. She can never know who he is, but it doesn't make her stop writing letters or wondering who he could possibly be.With an epistolary framework meticulously capturing only one side of a conversation, the book showcases all the drama, emotions and wonders of an orphaned jubilant teenager embarking on a brand-new journey. And while Judy goes through the whirlwind of her new life, the readers are left to guess the identity of the mysterious Daddy-Long-Legs.As Judy dives deeper into her journey, a subtle shift in tone can be noticed in the letters, hinting at the teenage mood swings as well as marking the protagonist's growth and tracing her development from a teenager to an adult.The book also captures how in her Daddy-Long-Legs, Judy sees her entire family. And the extend of the little girl's imagination is a bit of both: poignant and inspiring.Sprinkled with humour and seriousness alike, the book shows how joy and sorrow, grief and happiness, pleasure and suffering, go hand-in-hand, almost walking side by side.Surfing with high doses of inspiration and a remarkable sense of adventure, the book embraces some of the life's most brilliant lessons that offer the readers something to ponder on for a long time.In the most unexpected fairytale-like narration, the book "Daddy-Long-Legs" by Jean Webster brings to life the whirlpool of emotions, ecstacy and excitement that a teenage girl experiences when plunged into the real world, finally meeting her happy ending with a splendid twist, which leaves the readers basking in the joy of a magnificent journey."If you just want a thing hard enough and keep on trying, you do get it in the end."

Wonderful book. would recommend it to those who have experienced care and foster homing. As I had!

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