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From: The Horn Book Magazine(Primary) The fertile imagination and laconic style that Sachar employed to great effect in Holes work equally well for this latest volume [Marvin Redpost: A Flying Birthday Cake] in an often-brilliant series. Marvin...
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From: Isaac Asimov Book WorldOne of the more important hard sf writers of the 20th century was Isaac Asimov (1920-1992). Among Asimov's most endearing qualities as a writer was his enthusiasm, his joy in explaining to his readers the delights of...
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From: Grand StreetIn 1697 Charles Perrault, poet, courtier, deviser of pageants for His Majesty Louis XIV, published a collection of stories, under the title Tales of Olden Times, or Mother Goose Tales (Contes du temps passé, ou Contes de...
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From:To err is human. But to correct surreptitiously is fishy, especially to Harry Potter fans. In July, careful British and American readers of J.K. Rowling's children's fantasy series took immediate notice of an error...
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From: Appraisal: Science Books for Young PeopleLIBRARIAN: This is an updated version of "Isaac Asimov's Library of the Universe" series. Although the titles have been changed and new information added, much of the written and illustrative material is exactly the same...
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From: School Library JournalGr 4-7--This fourth book in the series about the Baudelaire orphans [The Miserable Mill] works fine as a standalone. The "poor little rich kids" lead lives filled with unhappiness, gothic horror, and melodramatic...
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From: ExtrapolationAs a psychologist specializing in psychobiography, and as a science fiction fan for over thirty-five years, I have become intrigued by the psychology of science fiction writers. Why do they write, and why science...
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From: ExtrapolationTwo characteristics seem central to Isaac Asimov's immense writing productivity over nearly fifty years. One is a strong self-confident energy he calls his "rationality"; the other is his almost militant disregard for...
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From: Fresh Air[Gross:] My guest is the author of eight best-selling, mock Victorian novels for children. They tell the tales of three unlucky orphans, who lead lives filled with misery and woe, as they are constantly on the run from a...
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From: Children's Book Review ServiceCamp Green Lake requires each juvenile who is sent there to dig a five by five foot hole as punishment for crimes. The area is a dried up-lake which makes the task difficult. Stanley unravels the mystery of the detention...
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From: School Library JournalGr 2-4--In this first book [Marvin Redpost: Kidnapped at Birth?] in a new series, Sachar introduces Marvin Redpost, a typical third grader. Written almost completely in dialogue, the story is fast paced, easy to read,...
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From: Christian Science MonitorDear Reader, I'm sorry to say that this book is extremely unpleasant. It tells the sad story of three unfortunate but clever orphans who must fend off a wicked relative who is determined to oppress them, steal their...
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From: Science Fiction for Young ReadersOne of the best-known science fiction writers in the world, Isaac Asimov has become a household name. He is solidly identified with the genre, although the majority of his 400 plus books have been non-fiction, covering a...
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From: Texas MonthlyYou may not know his name, but he wrote last year's best Texas novel. Louis Sachar's dislike of the summer heat kindled the writing of 1998's best Texas book. Holes chronicles life at a hellish boot camp for juvenile...
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From: Fairy Tale Romance: The Grimms, Basile, and PerraultBeastly Bridegrooms The indirect or symbolic portrayal of maidenly ambivalence about marrying is not limited, in fairy tale romance, to encounters with animal suitors. The bridegroom may be portrayed as subhuman or...
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From:It's time now to put aside all the talk of hype and rumors and huge first printings, time to stop fretting about whether innocent children are being sucked into a media frenzy (no--next question?). And most of all, it's...
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From: School Library JournalGr 3-6--These additional anecdotes about Wayside School [in Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger] will surely tickle the funny bones of Sachar's fans. Thirty more "time outs" are miraculously conflated into a...
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From: BooklistGr. 4-6. The Beaudelaire orphans enroll as students at Prufrock Academy in the fifth Series of Unfortunate Events book [The Austere Academy]. The Academy, run by nasty, mimicking Vice Principal Nero, is shaped like a...
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From: Perrault's Popular Tales'Madame Coulanges, who is with me till to-morrow, was good enough to tell us some of the stories that they amuse the ladies with at Versailles. They call this mitonner, so she mitonned us, and spoke to us about a Green...
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From: School LibrarianStanley Yelnats comes from a family unlucky to the point of persecution ever since 'No good (etc.) great-great-grandfather' came over from Latvia. Wrongly accused of stealing a basketball star's smelly sneakers being...