Ring Around Rosie edition by Emily Pattullo Children eBooks
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**Finalist in the 2014 Best Book Awards!**
Rebellious and unmanageable, Rosie is forced to move to the countryside with her family to escape the temptations of London life. But her propensity for trouble is not confined to the city, and Rosie is soon kidnapped by child traffickers and taken back to London, along with many other children that have been shipped into the country from abroad. Rosie faces prostitution, the plight of others much worse off than her, as well as her own demons, and it will take the determination and cunning of her brother Ted and student journalist Martha to find her before it’s too late.
Ring Around Rosie edition by Emily Pattullo Children eBooks
It was a good read, kind of left things hanging at the end though. Seemed rushed and didn't know how to make a good ending.Seemed like Rosie was awfully old for her age. Didn't expand on what her earlier "problems" were.
Parents were portrayed as dumb and dumber. Strange how these young people seem to be able to know and do everything on their own. Wouldn't go out of my way to read another of her books.
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Ring Around Rosie edition by Emily Pattullo Children eBooks Reviews
As a reader, rather than a reviewer, I have the luxury of choosing books that appeal and am happy to share my views on those books I find exceptional. `Ring Around Rosie' by Emily Pattullo didn't disappoint. The subject matter, child trafficking is a difficult one to tackle. The author has done so admirably, weaving something which many might find unpalatable - and therefore are perhaps not in touch with the reality of - with storytelling that is totally readable and, for me, unputdownable. This was a book I kept on my bedside to table. The story is about real flesh blood people rather than fictional characters. Anyone who has been a teenager will relate to Rosie - a young girl caught up by peer pressure and seemingly hell-bent on causing her parents maximum grief - and Ted, her older, brother, whose protective instincts come to the fore, despite his sister being a `pain', when she most needs him. Removed from London and temptation to rural seclusion where she can restart her life, bored Rosie is on a quest for excitement. Her less enthusiastic brother tags along. Without giving spoilers, Rosie is drawn into the horrific world of child trafficking and Ted is riddled with guilt that, at the crucial moment when he might have stopped her wandering too far along the path that led to her nightmare, he wasn't there for her. He loves her, as teenage brothers do, and his quest is now to find her, God willing at least safe, if not unharmed.
Anyone who has been a parent will relate to the parents of Rosie, still a child in an almost adult body, yet adult beyond her years. Unfortunately, however, Rosie is too inexperienced in life to stay away from the danger signs.
In short, I genuinely enjoyed this book. It is extremely well written, will appeal to adult and YA readers alike, and definitely has that something different that holds you attention and keeps you reading. I would absolutely recommend it.
Writing was very similar to the formulaic "chewing gum for your eyes" of Enid Blyton...........but this was supposed to be for adults. Certainly the theme was a serious one but lack of character development made any connection with the characters impossible. This writer should limit her `output to stories in the cheaper monthlies.
Very good book
found this book interesting, on a subject that i have not thought about a lot if at all. this book seemed to be written by a new writer, written very simply. however very interesting. i would read this authors work again,
Interesting story but quite sad. Unexpected ending. Leaves you wondering about all the children out there being abused and makes you want to help them.
The story is short and the reader gets the point of the message, but there seems to be detail missing. Reader fills in the gaps on their own. The information and timeliness of human trafficking is good. It is real and serious.
It's well known that at some point young people begin to believe their parents are stone stupid and worse, "uncool". This normally takes place when the child firmly believes he or she not to be a child any longer. Usually this takes place in the first few teenage years and often lasts until the frontal lobes of the child's brain have fully developed around their twenty-fourth year. During those years the child is at once aggressively exploring their new maturation and extremely vulnerable to those forces and experiences contained within that new maturity. Of those forces, they know little and will listen to descriptions of and learn about even more reluctantly. These are difficult years for the child and even more difficult years for their parents.
In these years of exploration, the young are particularly vulnerable to becoming prey to many of the ills of society. None is more venal than child sex trafficking. Of all the ills that can befall a young person who is exploring their developing adulthood, none can compare with that of being taken by adults who wish to exploit them in the low risk, high profit business of child sex trafficking. This is the subject of Ring Around Rosie by British author Emily Patullo.
Ms Patullo writes in novel form about a young 14 year old British girl who the reader is told was getting into difficulties in London where she lived. The bright lights and "with it" scenes of the big city were too seductive for her youthfulness to manage. To avoid catastrophes her parents could imagine, the entire family moved to a rural setting on the rough coast of England.
It all seemed to work very well for the young girl at first. But she was adventurous and went exploring near the beach not far from her new home. She discovers an old bunker presumably left over from World War II. Although her older brother was with her, he refuses to venture far into the woods, let alone approach the old bunker. What Rosie doesn't know is that human traffickers are using the bunker as a place to hold children they smuggle in from the ocean, landing on the beach in front of the bunker. Before she realizes her danger, she herself is captured. Thus begins her terrible odyssey into human sex trafficking.
The intention of the author was to write a novel that would discuss and display the dangers of human sex trafficking to youthful readers. The girl Rosie apparently has had serious disagrements with her parents sufficient to warrant their moving from busy, exotic London to the more rural, quietude of the seacoast. We're introduced to Rosie as she is painting which is a form of therapy and it appears her parents consulted a therapist in their search for ways to keep Rosie safe without crushing her growing spirit. I wondered why Ms Patullo didn't spend at least a few pages discussing or displaying Rosie's behaviors before her family uprooted not only their own lives, but the life of their nearly grown son, Ted. He exhibited no substantial issues with either his relationship with his parents, nor particularly his relationship with the city of London or its attractions, his friends or his sister. I felt the story of Rosie would have been much more complete with a further portrayal of her life in the city. As it was she seemed a rather ordinary young girl, given to exploring her surroundings, but there seemed no tension between Rosie and her parents certainly she was not a rebellious young girl, bent on exploration to self-destruction which is a great fear that most parents of teenagers share.
Rosie seems slow to figure out what is happening. In captivity, she meets a young Nigerian girl who was sold into the sex-slave business by her father while she was still in Africa. She is at once younger yet older than Rosie, but even she doesn't understand what she's doing in England until later in the story. There are some other children who have been caught up in the awful web of sex slavery, but none so important than the young Nigerian girl.
When Rosie doesn't follow her older brother home that first night, he tries to pretend she will appear by morning. When morning arises he realizes something terrible had happened, not long afterward confessing the previous night's adventure to his parents. The young man and his father go looking through the bunker in the woods and finding no one there, they call the police.
I have a bit of a problem accepting that the parents would have allowed their seventeen year old son to then run off to London to mount his own search for his younger sister, but that is what happens. He goes to the city, reconnects with some of his old chums and they begin to look through the huge labyrinth that London's seamy side can be.
We see Rosie in various states of confinement, eventually to be "sold" for evenings of sexual depravity. Fortunately for her these evenings happen to her while she is under the influence of some sort of drug which is given to her by her captor to make her malleable and inhibits her remembering too graphically what happened the night, or nights before. As I read through these scenes I found myself wondering if this was graphic enough to really drive the point home to the intended youthful reader. As an educational tool as well as an entertainment vehicle, Ring Around Rosie treads a perilously narrow path, much as a parent treads when raising a teenager who may or may not want to continue to accept that what Mommy or Daddy says is always dependably true. Perhaps if the accounts of the depravity and brutality of the human sex trade were more graphic, rather than educate and elucidate, the story might have crossed the line into stimulation of curiosity, defeating the author's intended purpose entirely. Surely the presence of "baskets of condoms" in these chambers of sexual depravity speaks a bit about the author's unwillingness to really paint the ugly picture of desperation that is being a captive to the sexual gratifications of the depraved. I felt at least the Ms Patullo should have established that young children captured into the sex slave business will not be able to look forward to anything approaching "safe sex". There is violence mentioned and even described at arms-length, and I wondered if there should not have been some real violence graphically presented at least once to drive home the message that once a sex slave, a young person could look forward to no happy ending. That is the truth and I was left wondering if that truth should not have been told, other than as a lecture.
Rosie's big brother Ted is the hero. He embarks on a heroic search through London's dark barrios, connecting with an interesting young woman, a student journalist who is researching the child sex trade in London. Together they are able to locate places where Rosie has been, and ultimately take the steps necessary to at least free some of the children. It's a good story, full of some suspense and action. For Rosie the story has a happy ending because her brother Ted, his friends and her parents are all advocates for her. The author's message that not all children who fall into this slavery have such advocates is clearly presented to young and older readers alike.
In the end, there is enough detail about what happens to young people captured or sold into the sex slave business to educate young readers. I think Ring Around Rosie is a "must read" for young girls especially, but young teenage boys should understand that the sex trade is evil for youth of both sexes and their gender does not give them a free pass.
First of all, young parents of children nearing the exploration age should read Ring Around Rosie and particularly the Ms Patullo's notes at the end of the book. FOUR STARS
It was a good read, kind of left things hanging at the end though. Seemed rushed and didn't know how to make a good ending.
Seemed like Rosie was awfully old for her age. Didn't expand on what her earlier "problems" were.
Parents were portrayed as dumb and dumber. Strange how these young people seem to be able to know and do everything on their own. Wouldn't go out of my way to read another of her books.
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