The Serial Garden: The Complete Armitage Family Stories
Autor Joan Aiken, MBE Ilustrat de Peter Baileyen Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 aug 2015 – vârsta până la 14 ani
Notăm cu interes modul în care The Serial Garden transformă banalul cotidian într-un spațiu al posibilităților infinite, pornind de la o premisă pe cât de simplă, pe atât de fermecătoare: dorința unei mame ca viitorii ei copii să aibă parte de o viață plină de evenimente neobișnuite. Rezultatul este o colecție completă de proză scurtă care ne invită în universul familiei Armitage, unde ziua de luni poate aduce lecții de latină predate de o fantomă sau descoperirea unei grădini magice ascunse chiar într-o cutie de cereale. Subliniem faptul că Joan Aiken, MBE reușește să mențină un echilibru fragil între umorul sclipitor și o logică a visului care captivează cititorii de toate vârstele. Ca și The Gift Giving: Favourite Stories, această antologie reușește să educe imaginația fără a deveni didactică, oferind o alternativă plină de spirit la literatura pentru copii convențională. Ilustrațiile realizate de Peter Bailey punctează vizual momentele de grație și absurd, oferind o ancoră estetică volumului. Față de lucrările sale anterioare mai orientate spre aventură pură, precum The Kingdom and the Cave, aici Joan Aiken, MBE explorează o latură mai domestică, dar la fel de inventivă, a fantasticului. Putem afirma că ritmul narativ este unul alert, infuzat cu o eleganță lingvistică ce refuză să simplifice excesiv experiența lecturii, transformând fiecare capitol într-o mică bijuterie de ingeniozitate literară.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0349005850
Pagini: 448
Dimensiuni: 167 x 198 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Virago
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Recomandăm această carte părinților care doresc să le cultive copiilor (8-12 ani) un simț al miraculosului în viața de zi cu zi. Prin aventurile familiei Armitage, cititorii câștigă o perspectivă ludică asupra lumii, învățând că imaginația este cel mai bun remediu împotriva plictiselii. Este o operă fundamentală a literaturii britanice, esențială pentru orice bibliotecă ce prețuiește umorul inteligent și fantezia clasică.
Descriere
'She's one of the most important and interesting children's fiction writers of the last fifty years' NEIL GAIMAN
'What a thrill to discover this gem from the witty and endlessly inventive Joan Aiken' CHRIS RIDDELL
'She is one of the writers I admire most in the world' KATHERINE RUNDELL
'She was a literary treasure, and her books will continue to delight for years to come' PHILIP PULLMAN
'The most swooningly romantic story you'll ever read - The Serial Garden' FRANK COTTRELL-BOYCE
'I wish we'll have two children called Mark and Harriet. And I hope lots of interesting and unusual things will happen to them. It would be nice if they had a fairy godmother, for instance. And a phoenix or something out of the ordinary for a pet. We could have a special day for interesting and unusual things to happen - say, Mondays. But not always Mondays, and not only Mondays, or that would get a bit dull'
As a result of their mother's honeymoon wish, Mark and Harriet Armitage have a fairy godmother, a pet unicorn and are prepared for anything life can throw at them (especially, but not always, on a Monday): hatching griffins in the airing cupboard, Latin lessons with a ghost, furious Furies on the doorstep and an enchanted garden locked inside a cereal packet. Life with the Armitages can be magical, funny, terrifying - but never, ever dull.
'A delightful summary of one side of Aiken's talent: whimsical, funny, a series of brilliantly imaginative ideas stitched together with dream logic . . . It is the mixture of irrepressible gaiety and invention with the tragic that makes Aiken one of the great children's authors . . . impossible to calculate the number of people who have enjoyed her books - who have had some magic injected into the mundane' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
Recenzii
Joan Aiken's invention seemed inexhaustible, her high spirits a blessing, her sheer storytelling zest a phenomenon. She was a literary treasure, and her books will continue to delight for many years to come
She was a consummate story-teller, one that each generation discovers anew
A writer of wild humour and unrestrained imagination
A delightful whimsical set of stories about young Mark and Harriet Armitage and the fantastical things that just happen to them, where if the lawn is full of unicorns you can count on their father to rush out and try to stop them eating the roses. These stories are funny and often unexpectedly poignant. They also don't have a wasted word or scrap of information. They're both charming and genuine in a way that few things manage
Inexhaustibly imaginative, Aiken was one of the twentieth century's greatest children's authors. Witty, zany and entirely sane, this is a necklace of diamonds
Often bonkers stories, always written with cut-glass precision . . . Aiken is a superb storyteller
She's one of the most important and interesting children's fiction writers of the last fifty years
A delightful summary of one side of Aiken's talent: whimsical, funny, a series of brilliantly imaginative ideas stitched together with dream logic... It is the mixture of irrepressible gaiety and invention with the tragic that makes Aiken one of the great children's authors...impossible to calculate the number of people who have enjoyed her books - who have had some magic injected into the mundane
Joan Aiken is a superb storyteller who refusal to skimp on sophisticated language, and the Armitage parents' droll indifference, is guaranteed to give children and parents a Ready Brek glow