Friday, July 29, 2005


Daddy Long Legs

Last week I bought a lot of books from the book fair. One is Daddy long legs Chinese version, another is Daddy long legs 2. Remember that in form 2, Daddy long legs was a must-read novel and it was 'taught' during English classes. And at quite the same time, the cartoon episode of this novel was launched in TVB Jade children's period. Then, Daddy long leg became the very special collective memory of St. Cat girls of our form. I am sure a lot of girls even dreamt they would meet their own Daddy long legs when they grow up. The story of Daddy long legs made me feel that the world is filled with love and hopes!!

'Daddy long legs' in this story means, as I know, a kind of spider, not the long legs of Daddy. The story consisted of 76 letter from an orphan Jerusha Abbott to a rich, secret benefactor who paid her to college. As Judy could just seen the shadow of this benefactor during the first time they met, his shadow crawled over the wall and was lengthened, which was like a daddy long longs on the wall, that is why the story had such a funny name. Highly recommend if you have not read it!!

2 comments:

Prudence said...

...長腿叔叔你好嗎,交出溫馨的心是你嗎,可否每個季節來伴我,解開牽掛...la la, la la la...

還記得這首歌嗎?

Anonymous said...

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