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A carregar... Shadows & Moonshine: Storiespor Joan Aiken
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. These stories are a little spooky but lovely. My 8 year old who likes happy stories refused to keep listening after the first one or two. ( ) Bewitching. I read it once, then had to again right away before returning to the library. If I were a child I'd save up to buy it then read it every season for years. Beautiful, exciting, meaningful, fun.... Reads like a bit of fluff for 9 year-olds, rereads like classic literature. Even the stories that don't have any actual magic are magical, even the ones that are serious have bits of wordplay, even the ones that are funny have beautiful evocative language. Perfect for a family to share, reading aloud a story each evening. Deeply satisfying for fans of [a:Hans Christian Andersen|6378|Hans Christian Andersen|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1183230200p2/6378.jpg], the Brothers Grimm, [a:Charles Perrault|35760|Charles Perrault|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1267516341p2/35760.jpg], or [a:Natalie Babbitt|1954|Natalie Babbitt|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1226361832p2/1954.jpg]. By the author of another of my favorites from my childhood, [b:The Wolves of Willoughby Chase|1311537|The Wolves of Willoughby Chase|Joan Aiken|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1341589642s/1311537.jpg|856203]. To give you a bit of sample, though I'm not sure if something's lost sans context: An adult son reports Mother takes her life in her hands twenty times a day." The old lady reacts with "That's the way life ought to be taken. If you have your life in your hands, then you can steer it, can't you?" And a teacher, Mr. Dibben, has a tape recorder he uses "for teaching the children in school and trying to make them say their a's long and droopy, like an old bellwether, instead of short and crisp like a snapped stick."" sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
A collection of thirteen tales by Joan Aiken. She can be scary (everyone knows her fascination with wolves and witches) and poetic (as in "Moonshine in the Mustard Pot" or "The Lilac in the Lake"). But whatever she sets her hand to, it is the work of a master. And set against the lovely and luminous pencil drawings of Pamela Johnson, we have a a baker's dozen of magical tales that will stay with readers long after the last page is turned and the lights turned out. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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