The Scarecrow and the Servant by Philip Pullman is a children's book I bought weeks ago at the second-hand bookstore of the charity Books for Dogs loc
It is a beautiful tale, plenty of imagination and rich of adventures and good feelings.
The story is this one: once a scarecrow becomes human and escape away from the field where he was living in.
While mr Cercorelli, the owner of the scarecrow, is searching for him frantically, during all the adventure experienced by the scarecrow, this one is happy and cheerful.
Without thinking too much of being a scarecrow, so with a physical body different from the one of humans, he just embraces this new state in which he has the possibility of walking, experiencing, speaking, thinking, loving, in a word: living.
Along the way, he meets a little boy called Jack; Jack doesn't have a family and was sleeping in a barn when he decided to go out for a wak.
The character of the scarecrow fascinated him too much for not following him when the scarecrow asked him of becoming his servant.
The scarecrow's character? Elegant, sophisticated, absolutely dreaming, optimistic and open to all possible adventures that they will meet with enthusiasm and positivity.
That's also why they will encounter along their way wagons of weird characters sometimes; searching for a job in a farm, they will later join the army; the scarecrow will perform on a stage; they will meet a fortune-teller, but first of all a band of bringants, later a crow and much much more.
Jack is prudent, constantly searching for food, unnecessary to the scarecrow, and more meditative but he won't never forget this weird, and fantastic friend, as you will see and also if reality wouldn't never permit something like that, what it is nonsense in Jack's life became a reality forever for the joy of everyone.
Beautiful! Wonderful Christmas's Gift!
Anna Maria Polidori
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