Just as good as I remembered. Lucy Scott was the narrator for my audio book. She was a great narrator.

Such a sweet book where so much happens. An absolute treasure.

Thursday Child is absolutely brilliant. My 12 year old granddaughter and I read this together at night while she was staying with us. We both absolutely enjoyed the adventures of spunky Margret Thursday.
Noel Streatfeild wrote this book with kindness, charm and heroism. It even made us get a tear in our eye when she was sent to the orphanage.
It is most definitely 5 golden stars.
#ThursdaysChild. #NetGalley

As ever Noel Streatfeild tells a great story. Margaret Thursday is feisty and likeable and gets into a bit of a scrape. We want her to get out of it and she does - kind of. The ending is left open for another story and there is still a mystery about who abandoned her with three of everything, of the best quality, and sent money every year until it ran out.

An orphan's hardship turned triumphant, with a memorable independent, prideful character, and unique adventures.
My complete review: https://klasikfanda.blogspot.com/2024...

This was a re-read of a childhood favorite. I went hunting for a copy of it because I thought I remembered it being thrilling, and thought my kids would enjoy it as a read aloud. Well, I couldn't wait long enough to read it to my kids. Rereading it as an adult, I found the plot a little more thin than I remembered, but it was a fantastic soap opera for kids. Mean orphanages, children with mysterious births, coincidences-- it has it all! It is definitely a product of its time, in that children of "gentle" birth are endued with all the finer qualities, but it was a fun read nonetheless. I had to buy the sequel on Amazon to learn what finally happens to Margaret Thursday!

Engaging from the First Page

The name of the book caught my attention first, as I am also a Thursday’s child. Margaret is feisty and believable and her adventures start off with a bang. From the first page, I breezed through the book easily and although this was set in a previous century, I think children today would find it an interesting read.

I remembered Noel streatfeild books as charming and old fashioned. Perhaps this book is still a bit old fashioned, but far lacking in the charm. The main character, Margaret Thursday, is unpleasant and vengeful and generally dislikeable. Only she isn’t supposed to be unlikeable. She is the heroine. The book does appear to be a sort of social commentary on the classes in Britain. And the flaws in society as a whole are widely apparent.

Maybe it is just this series? I plan to reread the shoes books to confirm my opinions now as an adult.

I have very fond memories of this book from my elementary school library days--although I didn't remember all of the details after all these years. Notably, I had no idea this was written by Noel Streatfield, but the style and the small points of the plot were immediately familiar from the Shoes books.

This is a book worth adding to any child's bookshelf. Margaret Thursday holds onto her independence in some very important ways and it makes for a slightly more challenging, but ultimately satisfying ending of this book. I was surprised to find there is a sequel. I'm not sure if I will look that up because I wouldn't want to ruin the memories I have with this volume, but I may find the intrigue irresistible.

I bought this book used from the library when I was about eleven, and it's still one of my favorites. Set in Victorian England, it seems to have all the earmarks of a children's adventure story, right down to the part where the children discover they are really heirs to millions (that isn't what happens, but it's close). But the characters, especially Thursday's child herself, Margaret, are so real and so vibrant (with the possible exception of the evil orphanage Matron) that I would recommend this book to anyone.

This is a classic book, but I did not enjoy Margaret Thursday as a character. She is a bit too whiney and entitled for no reason. She does grow on you, but I just wasn't invested enough.

As a child I adored Streatfield's Ballet Shoes and read it over and over, but her 1970 novel Thursday's Child had totally passed me by. The book follows spirited heroine Margaret Thursday, abandoned as a baby and subsequently sent to an orphanage straight out of Dickens, and the three Beresford siblings she meets at said orphanage. It's a delightful, undemanding and heartwarming read, and exactly what I needed in the current circumstances. It will appeal to readers aged 8-12, especially fans of Emma Carroll's historic adventures.