Klik op een omslag om naar Google Boeken te gaan.
Bezig met laden... The Last of the Dragons and Some Others (1972)door E. Nesbit
Used books to buy next (560) Bezig met laden...
Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. This was another book I read aloud with my kids. They love dragons for some reason, and they really enjoyed these stories. They have a fairy tale feel to them, with moral lessons, (somewhat) gruesome endings, and all. My children especially liked the baby that would cry and cry and cry whenever its mother was asleep. (No real surprise that my daughter felt a kinship with that particular character.) I especially liked that the princesses weren't all just waiting to be rescued and that so many of the dragons' scales clattered like metal. I like the idea that perhaps a dragon sounds a bit like a very large wind chime. Maybe these stories will act as a gateway to other Edith Nesbit books that my children might finally allow me to read to them. Sure, I could read children's literature to myself, but it just feels more efficient to read it aloud to my kids since I read to them constantly anyway. It could also be a good introduction to The Hobbit. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Onderdeel van de uitgeversreeks(en)Puffin Story Books (760)
Nine stories featuring dragons by the famous author. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
Actuele discussiesGeenPopulaire omslagen
Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)823.8Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Victorian period 1837-1900LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
Ben jij dit?Word een LibraryThing Auteur. |
Two lines made me laugh out loud and show the humor that permeates these tales. In "The Dragon Tamers", a blacksmith and his family live in a long-abandoned castle with a dungeon and a crumbling stairway leading deeper. "Even the lords of the castle in the good old times had never know where those steps led to, but every now and then they would kick a prisoner down the steps in their light-hearted, hopeful way, and, sure enough, the prisoner never came back".
The other quote kicks of the last and weakest story, The Last of the Dragons". "Of course you know that dragons were once as common as motorized omnibuses are now, and almost as dangerous."
Highly recommended, especially if you're a fan of authors such as Diana Wynne Jones. ( )