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The Long Surrender
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《学校图书馆杂志》(School Library Journal)书评
Gr 3-6-They say every book is an adventure, and that certainly is the case here. When Anne, Emily, and Will come home from the library, there is an odd book in their basket. Soon they discover the book's amazing powers. Anne and Emily are transported to Sherwood Forest, where they help Robin Hood. Will is shrunk to the size of an insect and sent on a quest where he must solve a riddle to return home safely. Then all three find themselves in a struggle for survival at a winter festival in Tsarist Russia. Woven through the tales are references to literature and music that deepen the text and add subtle layers to the stories. Katie Firth narrates Nina Bernstein's book (Farrar, 2005) with style and elegance. She creates unique voices for the different characters, adds interesting accents, and gives the text the expression it deserves. She even sings the songs found within the stories in a sweet, lyrical manner that aptly suits the book's character. While similar to Mary Pope Osborne's Magic Treehouse tales, this is for a slightly older audience. The text is more complex, and the risks the characters face are more life-threatening and suspenseful. While the vocabulary sometimes fails to mesh with the ages of the characters in the book, and the villain of the piece is never fully explained, young fantasy readers (and their parents) who enjoy books by Edward Eager, Eva Ibbotson, and Bruce Coville will find this a delight.-Teresa Bateman, Brigadoon Elementary School, Federal Way, WA (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
出版社周刊评论
Lacing together strands of folklore, history and literature, Bernstein's (The Lost Children of Wilder) debut children's book is a cleverly convoluted celebration of fantasy, of reading and of the imagination. Anne and Emily, sisters living in mid-20th century Queens, begin reading a "small, shabby volume" and discover that they are characters in the story. In the first of three episodes, the girls suddenly find themselves in Sherwood Forest. The girls use their historical and literary knowledge to help Robin Hood and his band foil devious Prince John's plans to arrange for the execution of his brother, King Richard the Lion-Hearted. The girls' younger brother, Will, next enters the magical book, which transports him to a land of diminutive creatures called Gnomblins, who draft him to break a sorcerer's curse, which has caused all insects and bugs to expand to enormous proportions. Touches of humor keep the proceedings light ("The g is silent, but we rarely are I'm afraid," the Gnomblins state by way of introduction), and a subtle message about literacy threads through Will's adventure. In the novel's final, most cryptic caper, all three siblings follow an interloper at their parents' garden party into the mysterious book to become players in a scene from Tolstoy's War and Peace. Amusing anecdotes about the children's home life with their likeable, absentminded parents balance these fanciful, frequently suspenseful forays. Kulikov's voluptuous pen-and-ink chapter openers (which bring to mind Sir John Tenniel's work) contribute to the elegant storybook feel of the experience. Ages 10-up. (Mar.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
《儿童读物杂志》(Horn Book)书评
Siblings Anne, Emily, and Will enter the pages of a magical book; it brings them to Sherwood Forest, a world of giant insects, and finally Tolstoy's Russia. The plethora of literary allusions is off-putting, and few young readers will get the references to War and Peace, but the novel will appeal to those looking for a long and meaty magical adventure. (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. All rights reserved.
Kirkus评论
A mildly engaging and very bookish fantasy, with a rich undercurrent of sibling lore, rivalry and affection. Like Diane Duane's So You Want to Be a Wizard (1983), these children check out a book that has certain powers and, like Roderick Townley's The Great Good Thing (2001), they find themselves actually in the stories they're reading. The first adventure finds Anne, 11, and Emily, nine, in Sherwood Forest, transplanted from their home in New York. Their parents write for a great metropolitan newspaper, and have filled the children with old stories and ballads, so the girls know how their story should end and how to help Robin rescue them from the Sheriff of Nottingham. The second adventure belongs to their small brother Will, whose love of insects and difficulty in learning to read bring him to a quest that's part Borrowers and part Jack story. In the third, a scene from War and Peace finds all three children transported from their parents' summer garden party to a winter fest in Russia, where they get to save the world, more or less. Graceful language and pretty interplay between the three children and between their loving, distracted parents adds interest. (Fiction. 9-12) Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
《书目》(Booklist)书评
Gr. 4-6. In her first effort for children, Bern-stein, a journalist and author of nonfiction National Book Award finalist The Lost Children of Wilder 0 (2001), explores a fantasy premise in the tradition of Edward Eager and E. Nesbit, in which a mysterious library book launches siblings Anne, Emily, and Will into "the kind of enchanted adventures they had always dreamed about." The children's recent readings supply the rough framework for their magical journeys, which plunge them into a tale straight from Robin Hood0 , a heroic confrontation with giant bugs, and a scene from War and Peace.0 Between bouts of brisk action, Bernstein probes realistic childhood themes--sibling tensions, ambivalence about growing up, the thrill of mastering a challenge. Some children may feel, as young Emily does, that they are "missing half the story," and artist Kulikov's slightly homely figures probably won't be universally appreciated. But voracious readers, particularly those who share the protagonists' quirky intellectual upbringing, will be captivated by the narrative's classic feel and the ever-thrilling notion of books opening literal doors to fabulous worlds. --Jennifer Mattson Copyright 2005 Booklist