THE GENTLE HOUSE

by Anna Perrot Rose ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

A concluding chapter to Room For One More has the forthright and robust warmth of the earlier book and tells of her experience with Andris, a Latvian D.P. orphan of eleven whom she first met in the school where she was teaching, and who proved to be a behaviour problem which his prospective foster-parents decided to avoid. Widowed, a little old for the job, and in the face of the disapproval of the Welfare people, Mrs. Rose decided to take Andris home, and with her he found his ""gentle house... a place where you feel so safe"". Unpredictable, unreasonable, unruly- Andris was, in the first two years, a small temper tornado (his screeching spells could last up to nine hours); he showed violent resistances (usually later explained by his dreadful war background); he had a real language barrier- ""English I do not speak waliwell""- and he refused to try to learn to read- until three years later his feeling of acceptance- as one of the family- changed his mind. And her story of the acclimatization and adjustment of an obdurate, obstreperous, sometimes unintelligible but always understandable youngster has its moments of humor and a consistent human interest.

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Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1954

Categories: NONFICTION