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Title: Through the Tempests Dark and Wild : A Story of Mary Shelley, Creator of Frankenstein by Sharon Darrow, Angela Barrett ISBN: 0-7636-0835-1 Publisher: Candlewick Press Pub. Date: February, 2003 Format: School & Library Binding Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Fact and fiction blend in this survey of Shelley's life
Comment: Sharon Darrow's story of Mary Shelly, creator of Frankenstein, comes to life in the picturebook story Through The Tempests Dark And Wild, which will require good reading skills or parental assistance for the picturebook crowd. Fact and fiction blend in this survey of Shelley's life and writing talents.
Rating: 5
Summary: VALUABLE FOR ALL YOUNG READERS
Comment: Award-winning illustrator Angela Barrett utilizes luminous watercolor illustrations to vivify the life of Mary Shelley. Author Darrow skillfully weaves some fictionalized accounts into the facts known about Mary Shelley's life.
Born August 30, 1797, Mary was the child of two famous writers, philosopher William Godwin, and Mary Wollstonecraft. Sadly, the elder Mary died only a few days after her daughter's birth.
As a child Mary told stories, often ghost stories, and she spoke of a girl who could not forget the mother she had never known. She also read the books written by her parents in which they envisioned a better world with education and freedom for all.
Her relationship with her father was to change when he remarried. There were disagreements between young Mary and her stepmother. So, at the age of fourteen she was sent to Scotland to live with friends, the Baxters.
One can imagine that the child was bereft; she had lost her mother and now her father turned from her. But the Baxters offered her not only love but intellectual stimulation as well. Some are of the opinion that Mary's Gothic masterpiece, Frankenstein, began to grow in her mind during this time.
Mary later eloped with the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. She was to write novels, plays, stories, and poems. Today, some 200 years after her birth, she is well remembered.
"Through the Tempests Dark and Wild" is masterfully presented, and would be a valuable addition to the libraries of all young readers.
- Gail Cooke
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Title: The Random House Book of Shakespeare Stories by Andrew Matthews, Angela Barrett ISBN: 0375816100 Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers Pub. Date: 25 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
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Title: Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread (Newbery Medal Book) by Kate Dicamillo, Timothy B. Ering ISBN: 0763617229 Publisher: Candlewick Press Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.99 |
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Title: Eragon (Inheritance, Book 1) by Christopher Paolini ISBN: 0375826688 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 26 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Reading Lolita in Tehran : A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi ISBN: 0375504907 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 25 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: The Painters of Lexieville by Sharon Darrow ISBN: 0763614378 Publisher: Candlewick Press Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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