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Timothée de Fombelle

Autor(a) de Toby Alone

27+ Works 1,707 Membros 110 Críticas

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Séries

Obras por Timothée de Fombelle

Toby Alone (2006) 482 exemplares
Vango: Between Sky and Earth (2010) 386 exemplares
Toby and the Secrets of the Tree (2007) 263 exemplares
The Book of Pearl (2014) 154 exemplares
Captain Rosalie (2014) — Autor — 52 exemplares
Saving Celeste (2007) 48 exemplares
Victoria rêve (2012) 17 exemplares
Gramercy Park (2018) 17 exemplares
101 Ways To Read A Book (2022) 12 exemplares
Vango (2012) 7 exemplares
Neverland (2017) 7 exemplares

Associated Works

The Great War: Stories Inspired by Items from the First World War (2015) — Contribuidor — 108 exemplares

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Conhecimento Comum

Nome canónico
Fombelle, Timothée de
Data de nascimento
1973-04-17
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
France

Membros

Críticas

Saving Celeste Review

I enjoyed this book! I liked the climate change link-up as well, which made me think quite deeply about what this planet would be like in a century! This is a great dystopian novel that I would highly recommend teenagers to read. 4 and a half/5 stars!
½
 
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AA1706 | 1 outra crítica | Jan 9, 2024 |
Sounds kinda like Ferngully, but I may give it a try.
 
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LibrarianDest | 17 outras críticas | Jan 3, 2024 |
Klassiek avontuur- en coming of ageverhaal in een nieuwe bijzondere setting, mix er doorheen het-omgaan-met-de-aardevraagstuk, de boom als metafoor voor de wereld en een populistische leider die bijv. kampen heeft voor nieuwkomers Door de bijzondere setting zijn de gevaren, problemen, middelen en oplossingen ook net even anders dan bij klassieke avonturen. Met een Robinson Crusoë (De Wand) als intermezzo. De wetenschapper vraagt zich af of er leven buiten de boom is, waar komen anders de noten vandaan? :)

Soms wordt pas later iets verteld hoe een situatie zo is gekomen, of hoe met welke bewoners contact is ontstaan, dat wordt steeds duidelijk ingeleid.
Bijna aan het eind lijkt het alsof je al in het tweede boek bent, maar aan het einde weet je waarom. Het einde de clifhanger naar het echte deel twee.

Thema's: goed/kwaad, vriendschap, verraad, familie, zorg voor/ uitputting van je omgeving, xenofobie, overleven, coming of age,
… (mais)
½
 
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EMS_24 | 17 outras críticas | Dec 14, 2023 |
First line: J'ai un secret.

Rosalie is a precocious five and a half year old girl who lives with her mother in a French village, her father away fighting in World War I. When her mother begins working in a munitions factory, she makes a deal with the teacher of eight year old boys to let Rosalie sit in the back of the classroom and draw. Captaine Rosalie wiles away the hours by pretending to be a spy on a secret mission vital to the war effort.

In the evenings, her mother reads letters from her father, but Rosalie is suspicious that her mother is fabricating some of the stories she tells about going fishing when he returns and eating delicious food. One day she sneaks back to the empty house to read the letters for herself. Although she can't read all the words, some jump out at her, and they are not words that her mother has read to her:

Je n'ai pas plus assez de souffle pour suivre l'écriture escarpée de mon père, mais je prends les petits mots du papier, ceux qui me sautent au visage dès que je me penche.

Le mot rats, le mot sang, le mot peur.

This poignant story of a child's life on the homefront is particularly sweet because Rosalie is such an intelligent, creative, and brave little girl. Heavily illustrated by gorgeous illustrations by Isabelle Arsenault, the story was easy enough for me to follow, yet it is not a children's book per se. Instead it is a story told from the perspective of a child, but with complex overtones. I loved it.
… (mais)
 
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labfs39 | 7 outras críticas | Oct 29, 2023 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
27
Also by
1
Membros
1,707
Popularidade
#15,031
Avaliação
4.1
Críticas
110
ISBN
194
Línguas
16

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