is #3 on the NYT children's bestseller list!!!!!!!
i've read it and reviewed it - it's a WONDERFUL BOOK!!!!
i'm taking applications to review it, BUT I GET IT BACK!!!
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I just picked this up for our bedtime reading, as soon as we finish our current book (Diana Wynne-Jones: The Ogre Downstairs). Looks promising.
vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from vj :
]is #3 on the NYT children's bestseller list!!!!!!! ] ]i've read it and reviewed it - it's a WONDERFUL BOOK!!!! ] ]i'm taking applications to review it, BUT I GET IT BACK!!!
ouch! sorry - wrong group again.
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vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "Karen_AZ" :
]I just picked this up for our bedtime reading, as soon as we finish our ]current book (Diana Wynne-Jones: The Ogre Downstairs). Looks promising.
they interviewed him on CNN tonight. what a cutie!
homeschooled. finished HS at 15. parents printed the first copies of the book and started touring with it - then it was picked up by Knopf.
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LOL - oh well - what's the book about?
vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "Kandice Seeber" :
]LOL - oh well - what's the book about?
coming-of-age story of a boy and his dragon. pure classic fantasy. and it has a map. i love books with maps. this is the first in at least a trilogy. Eragon is just becoming a man at 16 when he finds a dragon's egg that hatches. the dragon bonds to him and they start off on their adventures "against the evil empire".
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Vicki, this is probably a stupid question for you, but have you ever read the Griffin and Sabine trilogy by Nick Bantock? I adore his work. Talk about maps!
vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "CLP" :
]Vicki, this is probably a stupid question for you, but have you ever read ]the Griffin and Sabine trilogy by Nick Bantock? I adore his work. Talk about ]maps!
no - i haven't. and i see he isn't listed on Books 'n' Bytes, either.
more info????
----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)
Nick Bantock is an incredible artist who created an intriguing story about two people from different places/dimensions?, Griffin and Sabine. (He's also done pop-up books, and conundrums of all sorts). Griffin is a postcard artist in England, and Sabine is a stamp illustrator on an island in the Pacific. She has "seen" his work for years, knows when he changes something in a painting, even though he just did it that morning... The books are a record of the correspondance between the two, complete with letters that you actually remove from the envelopes, all incredibly illustrated. They are sold as a set or individually - I recommend the set. I love these books for the artwork. I recommended them to a literate friend who hated them! Go figure. . I initially read a first edition - exquisite! (wish I had bought it), but the newer ones are nice, too. I think he is now coming out with a sequel, I haven't kept up. I've bought this series for gifts so many times I can't count them. You can often find the set on EBay. I find them mesmerising and every time I take them out it's all new. That may be due to the increasing frequency of my "senior moments"... It's a quick read. you can skim through the series in an hour, or lounge on the couch with them for a week!
I love them... Lost my set in the move.
This sounds like a book I could love! Diana
vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "Diana Curtis" :
]This sounds like a book I could love!
well, DH and i did.
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vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from snipped-for-privacy@aol.compuppies (Dr. Sooz) :
]The female dragon Saphira!
ah - you've read it!
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