Susan Cooper (OT)

[Blaise]

No: HPFGUIDX 6327

Peg wrote:  

> This is somewhat OT: I took my girls to the library today and 
> while there picked a copy of Susan Cooper's _The Boggart_.  What 
I've 
> gathered from the jacket flap is that it's about a family who picks
> up a boggart (by which Cooper seems to mean a prankster spririt, a 
> sort of Robin Good character) but the family has mistakenly taken 
it 
> back across the Atlantic.  So now the boggart is in the States and 
> trying to figure out (and use for its pranks) electricity and 
> computers.
> 
> Anybody read this?  I have not read Cooper's work although I 
> understand her to be well respected--She's won the Newbery Award.
> 
> Peg

Yes, I certainly have read this and loved it.  The Boggart is, as you 
noted, not at all like the Boggart Lupin teaches the 3rd years to 
fight (see, this is on topic really!), but is a Puck-like figure 
which gradually learns to deal with modern technology.  She manages 
the clash between magic and technology very well.  It's a good book, 
and I do recommend it strongly, as I do Cooper's other books, 
esp. 'The Dark Is Rising' sequence.  I hope you enjoy it!    

-Blaise, pleased that the Christmas holidays have begun.