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Title: Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan Cooper, Margery Gill ISBN: 0-15-259034-X Publisher: Harcourt Children's Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1988 Format: School & Library Binding Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.43 (63 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Darn good, consarn it.
Comment: The first book in the "Dark Is Rising" series and, in many ways, the most readable. In this story, three siblings struggle to follow a series of clues leading them to the Holy Grail. Aided by their mysterious guardian, Merriman, the kids solve riddles and try to escape the clutches of the Dark. This is undoubtedly the most engaging book in the "Dark Is Rising" series, though the later books are certain more sophisticated. Oddly bereft of magic, it taps into a lot of plot elements that kids love. Mystery and escape. A summer free of parents and school. And a treasure to be found, thanks to a map in a dusty old house. Heck, it even has an abandoned attic full of junk. What's not to like?
The kids themselves are particularly engaging. Cooper has a good ear for dialogue, and the kids never sound like an age that they aren't. Too often I'll read books about eight year-olds that talk, walk, and act like they're thirty-five. Here, an eight-year-old is eight, and the reader never doubts the author's tongue. As for the story, who could complain? Susan Cooper knows how to instill fear. Her villains are always most villainous when they're cool and collected. Her plots are carefully planned and rarely forced. And her writing is melodic. She does suffer from a dire need to often put rhymes and poems in her books that the heroes must solve. But otherwise, one cannot complain. If you've kids looking for something in a Tolkein vein, this is the book for them.
Rating: 4
Summary: The subtle, mysterious beginning of a great series.
Comment: This book starts the classic five-volume fantasy series "The Dark Is Rising Sequence." Although listed as books for teenagers, adult fantasy fans will also find much to love in these novels. Author Susan Cooper writes with intelligence and respect for her readers, and fills all the books with fascinating layers of history, folklore, and mysticism. This first book establishes the conflict that will continue through the remaining books in the series: a group of modern-day English children find themselves embroiled in the hidden battle between the forces of good and a mysterious force known as The Dark, a battle that has its roots in the shadowy legends of King Arthur.
"Over Sea, Under Stone" differs from the other books in the series in that it avoids the overtly supernatural. This is an unusual fantasy novel in which nothing obviously fantastic occurs. The terrors of The Dark and the workings of magic remain subtle hints and hidden undertones beneath the action, as if they are occurring just out of sight of the main characters. This gives the novel a spooky sense of reality, and the reader can easily imagine him or herself in the place of the three children who, during a vacation in Cornwall, slowly discover the battle with The Dark that has existed for centuries. The novels that follow, especially "The Dark is Rising," plunge headlong into the supernatural, but "Over Sea, Under Stone" provides a perfect, gradual introduction.
The story introduces us to the three Drew children, Simon, Barney, and Jane, and their mysteriously knowledgeable Great-Uncle Merry, all who will play major parts in the saga. While the Drew children are on vacation in Cornwall (a land steeped in legends), they discover a map which may lead to the Grail of the King Arthur stories. With Great-Uncle Merry's help they start to unravel the clues on the map. But The Dark will do anything to seize the Grail first, for it contains a power that can defeat them. The story unfolds as a fascinating mystery as the Drew children unravel clue after clue while the danger from mysterious individuals grows greater with each stride they make toward the final goal.
Few young adult fantasies offer such intelligence and subtlety as "Over Sea, Under Stone." Readers of all ages will become entwined in its mysteries and read swiftly to the tense conclusion. After that, they will definitely want to continue to the epic next book in the sequence, "The Dark Is Rising," where the hidden magical forces of this book burst through the surface to start their titanic battle. The story continues in "Greenwitch," "The Grey King," and concludes in "Silver on the Tree."
Rating: 4
Summary: Lewis
Comment: The story begins when a family moves to a new house and they find a manuscript in there atic.And the manuscript has words and symbols that they can not under stand on it. And they have to get clues from there map to get from one clue to the next clue to find a tresure they think is at the end of the clues that they follow. But along the way people are trying to catch them so they can get the map and go to the tresure when they are going clue to clue. The people are first shadowy so you can not think or visualize of what they look like. will not tell you who is tring to catch them you will have to read the book to find that out. I liked the book because there is a lot of adventure in the book and because it is not that hard to read because it does not have big words. It does not get boring
bacause of the adventure. In the front of the book it says a fifth grader can read. It has two hundred and fifty two pages.
And the auther is Susan Cooper.
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Title: Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper ISBN: 0689829833 Publisher: Aladdin Library Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: Greenwitch by Susan Cooper ISBN: 0689710887 Publisher: Simon Pulse Pub. Date: 30 November, 1986 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: Silver on the Tree by Susan Cooper ISBN: 0689711522 Publisher: Simon Pulse Pub. Date: 30 April, 1987 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: The Grey King by Susan Cooper ISBN: 0689829841 Publisher: Aladdin Library Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: The Book of Three by LLOYD ALEXANDER ISBN: 0440407028 Publisher: Yearling Books Pub. Date: 15 November, 1978 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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