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Title: Adam of the Road (Puffin Newberry Library) by Elizabeth Gray Vining, Robert Lawson, Elizabeth Janet Gray ISBN: 0-14-032464-X Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: November, 1987 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.61 (23 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Book
Comment: If you like action, drama and romance (well not much romance) then you will like "Adam of the Road." The story begins at St.Albans abbey in the June of 1294. When Adam Quartermayne, the son of Roger, the minstrel of Lord De Lisle, gets picks him up at the abbey by his father the adventure begins. Adam's father loses their horse, Bayard, to another minstrel Jankin. Jankin rides Bayard so hard that Bayard becomes lame and Jankin does not want Bayard anymore. In the middle of the night, Jankin steals Nick, Adam's cocker spaniel, and heads out before Adam awakes. Then the case begins taking Adam all over England. I won't tell you anymore about the book other than it is a great book and you should read it!!!!
Rating: 4
Summary: A good introduction for Children to Medieval England
Comment: I bought this book for my daughter. I read it first. It is a good introduction for children to medieval English life, somewhat unrealistic in spots, but nonetheless nicely written. It is just a simple story about a boy, whose faithful dog is stolen, and in his search for the dog, his father Roger the Minstrel loses him. Adam's adventures and misadventures help him learn courage, self-reliance, gratitude,as well as generosity. He learns the value of work, perserverance and friendship. It is a little slow in places, but the story is more about a boy growing up than it is about a boy looking for his dog. The illustrations by Robert Lawson are beautiful and really capture the spirit of the book. In general it's a very good book.
Rating: 1
Summary: totoally unrealistic for the times
Comment: I recently read this as part of a survey of childrens' literature about the Medieval period. Let me say first, that the dialogue is completely modernized, with not even a complex word to redeem it. I know this is because the original is supposedly in dialect, but please, our children are more sophisticated than that. Adam is self-involved, careless, and annoyingly stupid. Despite it's touted 320 pages, this could have been printed in 150, and contained much the same material. The only thing that redeems this novel from being totally forgettable is the snatches of Latin and Old English ballads scattered throughout. If you want your children to have a much clearer understanding of the times, with a book focussed more on character than on plot or modern accessability, have them read Song of the Gargoyle. It's also about a boy who loses his father, and has to search for him, in the company of a dog-like being, but has ten times the depth and realism of this piece of trash. The boy is also a minstrel, of sorts, but he has more likable qualities than Adam, as well as more adventures in less pages. The ending is a happy one, but it involves a twist, which isn't at all forseeable, as theat in Adam of the Road. Please, just skip this, I don't care if it won a Newberry Award, and read Song of the Gargoyle, by Zylpha Keatly Snider.
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Title: The Door in the Wall by Marguerite De Angeli ISBN: 0440402832 Publisher: Yearling Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 1990 List Price(USD): $5.50 |
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Title: The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare ISBN: 0395137195 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 01 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: The Trumpeter of Krakow by Janina Domanska, Eric P. Kelly ISBN: 0689715714 Publisher: Simon Pulse Pub. Date: 01 April, 1992 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: The Golden Goblet (Puffin Newbery Library) by Eloise Jarvis McGraw ISBN: 0140303359 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: October, 1990 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Hawk That Dare Not Hunt by Day by Scott O'Dell ISBN: 0890843686 Publisher: Bob Jones Univ Pr Pub. Date: October, 1988 List Price(USD): $7.49 |
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