Dick, Marjorie and Fidge: A Search for the Wonderful DodoG. E. FarrowOmniClassics · Literature
Dick, Marjorie and Fidge: A Search for the Wonderful Dodo
G. E. FarrowThree children afloat on an overturned table enter a world where literal meanings and extraordinary creatures overturn common sense.
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About the book
When floodwater surrounds their home, Dick, Marjorie, and little Fidge improvise a boat from a table and drift into increasingly impossible company. A talking Dodo treats extinction as a convenient social arrangement, while the small people they next encounter challenge Dick's belief that he has grown too sensible for fairies. The journey carries the children through verbal puzzles, strange rulers, unfamiliar creatures, and adventures organized around the elusive Panjandrum. Marjorie's willingness to imagine and Fidge's delighted repetitions offer alternatives to Dick's confident explanations. Farrow builds the fantasy from misunderstandings as much as from marvels: ordinary words become invitations to unexpected action. The result is a playful children's journey in which the wish to appear knowledgeable repeatedly proves less useful than curiosity.
- Imagination and certainty
- Wordplay and literal meanings
- Childhood companionship
Why read it
The Dodo's explanation of extinction establishes the book's comic method: familiar language becomes unfamiliar when a character insists on a different meaning.
A. L. Burt edition illustrated by Allan Wright; no publication year stated