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Title: The Great Good Thing by Rod Townley, Roderick Townley, Blair Brown, TBA ISBN: 0-8072-0497-8 Publisher: Listening Library Pub. Date: May, 2001 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 2 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.23 (13 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Everyone should do "A Great Good Thing"
Comment: I have very little time for reading lately, but when my kids both recommended the library book I had casually picked out for them, I settled in for a quick read. I ended up reading the entire, short book before I would budge from the couch. It is an entertaining, imaginative, well-written, beautiful book for all ages.
I plan to give copies of this book for Christmas presents.
Do yourself a favor - use a Saturday afternoon to do "A Great Good Thing".
Rating: 1
Summary: An interesting idea, but it falls flat...
Comment: Most people never thing of what happens after they close a book. Yet, what if the characters were alive, and carried on lives until the next reader opened their story? That's the idea of this tale of Sylvie, a princess who is starting to grow weary of her almost forgotten story. Sylvie ends up being able to escape the book and walk into the newest reader's dreams. The new reader happens to be the granddaughter of the very first reader of the book. However, I found the story to be utterly confusing, boring, and lacking details that could really make it interesting. It was advertised as a YA book, but I doubt it would hold the attention of many, or even young children.
Rating: 5
Summary: An unexpected treasure
Comment: It may not be a big secret anymore, but there are a lot of adults who like reading "children's books". No, though it made me take a second look at today's "kid's lit", Harry Potter(as much as I love it)did not start this. I digress.
I am reading a lot of "juvenile fiction" these days and while on a search at my local book store for new authors and stories, I happened upon a hard back of Into the Laberynth and learned of this earlier book by the same author.
I don't want to give much away about the plot, but it is a sweet, wacky and humorous story about what might go on inside your old storybooks when you are not reading them. The characters go on living their lives and when a person is reading the book .....it's like the characters are stage performers.
The main character is Sylvie a princess who is called upon to do a great good thing to save her kingdom and her story. In her journey she meets and befriends one of her readers a little girl named Claire. It is a fun story but poignant. It is in turns...exciting,humorous,suspenceful,sweet and sad. I finished the book and(I might be getting a little carried away, but who cares)found it quite frankly one of the most enjoyable novels(not just "children's novels" I have read in a long time.
A most unexpected and pleasurable treasure. I would recomend it to anyone who ever read a story book or listened to a story.
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Title: Inkheart by Cornelia Funke, Anthea Bell ISBN: 0439531640 Publisher: Chicken House Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Into the Labyrinth by Roderick Townley ISBN: 0689846150 Publisher: Atheneum Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Bartimaeus Trilogy Book One: The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud ISBN: 078681859X Publisher: Miramax (Kids) Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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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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