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Middle grades fun look at the history & customs of Halloween. As usual Bradbury's writing is excellent.
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Even though I'd been warned, this was written for a younger audience than I expected - more middle grade than young adult, really.
My 1974 edition has some wonderfully creepy pen and ink drawings that remind me of Tim Burton's "Nightmare Before Christmas." And there's a few built-in references to Dickens's A Christmas Carol, with the neighborhood boys traveling to Halloweens of the past to witness what they were like.
Bradbury is wonderful at making me feel what it must have been like to be a boy ...more
My 1974 edition has some wonderfully creepy pen and ink drawings that remind me of Tim Burton's "Nightmare Before Christmas." And there's a few built-in references to Dickens's A Christmas Carol, with the neighborhood boys traveling to Halloweens of the past to witness what they were like.
Bradbury is wonderful at making me feel what it must have been like to be a boy ...more
Halloween/Samhain group read - three days too late. Better late than never, I guess?
Why, oh why did they mess with the illustrations?
The new Grimly ones look cartoonish compared to the pen & ink versions in my vintage edition.
The house & tree:
Moundshroud:
I confess, I do like the Grimly version of this scene and am baffled as to why Mugnaini gave Moundshroud bat wings, but it's sad that you have to wait until halfway through to get a decent portrait of Moundshroud in the Grimly book. ...more
Why, oh why did they mess with the illustrations?
The new Grimly ones look cartoonish compared to the pen & ink versions in my vintage edition.
The house & tree:
Moundshroud:
I confess, I do like the Grimly version of this scene and am baffled as to why Mugnaini gave Moundshroud bat wings, but it's sad that you have to wait until halfway through to get a decent portrait of Moundshroud in the Grimly book. ...more
I was pleased to find this available to listen for free on Audible, so I grabbed it to read in October. Ray Bradbury has such a poetic and illustrative way of writing. It was very fitting for this story about boys who go on a quest to save their ailing friend and to learn the authentic origins behind Halloween. They go many thousands of years back in time and work their way forward until they learn about how humanity has learned to conceptualize their fears about death and what lurks in the dark
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A great book for kids who want to learn about the origins of Halloween. It is a good springboard to learning more about the different traditions.
Nov 26, 2009
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