The Real Boy
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.33 (598 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0062015087 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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Oscar's world is small, but he likes it that way. Children in the city are falling ill, and something sinister lurks in the forest. Oscar has long been content to stay in his small room in the cellar, comforted in the knowledge that the magic that flows from the forest will keep his island safe. The real world is vast, strange, and unpredictable. Oscar is a shop boy for the most powerful magician in the village, and spends his days in a small room in the dark cellar of his master's shop grinding herbs and dreaming of the wizards who once lived on the island generations ago. Now, even magic may not be enough to save it.. And Oscar does not quite fit in it.But now that world is changing. National Book Award Longlist2014 Bank Street Children's Book Committee Best Book of the Year"Beautifully written and elegantly structured, this fantasy is as real as it gets."—Franny Billingsley, author of ChimeThe Real Boy, Anne Ursu's follow-up to her widely acclaimed and beloved middle grade fantasy Breadcrumbs, is a spellbinding tale of the power we all wield, great and small.On an island on the edge of an immense sea there is a city, a forest, and a boy named Oscar
"is magic good or bad?" according to Kristin Howell. Oscars knows he's different but he doesn't know why. He understands cats, but not people. The magicians's apprentice tells Oscar he's useless; worthless. When something unknown attacks the village and the magician is gone, Oscar wonders if he can possibly help - and how. Ursu's robust fantasy will have readers questioning the role of magic in fairy tales and in sir own lives. This is good for fantasy and fairy tale readers is magic good or bad? Kristin Howell Oscars knows he's different but he doesn't know why. He understands cats, but not people. The magicians's apprentice tells Oscar he's useless; worthless. When something unknown attacks the village and the magician is gone, Oscar wonders if he can possibly help - and how. Ursu's robust fantasy will have readers questioning the role of magic in fairy tales and in sir own lives. This is good for fantasy and fairy tale readers 4th grade and up.. th grade and up.. Experienced Editor said More than a magical fairy tale. I'm not sure which I like better: the story, the characters, or the writing. I mean, you've gotta love a book that contains sentences like "The apprentice's name was Wolf, because sometimes the universe is an unsubtle place."Wolf makes life miserable for the orphan by Oscar, who also works for the magician Caleb. Oscar is only a hand, doing menial tasks that Wolf wouldn't touch. He spends his days in the cellar of Caleb's magic shop in the Barrow, a tangle of forest circling the gleaming hilltop town of Asteri. Oscar has no social . Reality fights My two-year-old is dealing with the concept of personhood. Lately she's taken to proclaiming proudly "I'm a person!" when she has successfully mastered something. By the same token, failure to accomplish even the most mundane task is met with a dejected, "I'm not a person". This notion of personhood and what it takes to either be a person or not a person reminded me a fair amount of Anne Ursu's latest middle grade novel "The Real Boy". There aren't many children's books that dare to delve into the notion of what it means to be a "r
From Booklist Oscar knows he’s different. That changes when a mysterious destructive force begins obliterating anything magical, and the city’s perfect children start falling curiously ill. As the apprentice to Caleb, the last magician in the magic-steeped Barrow, Oscar doesn’t need to worry about how different he is: all he needs to do is collect the herbs, prepare the charms and tinctures, do his chores, and avoid trouble. He can’t remember where he comes from, he has an encyclopedic knowledge of magical herbs and their uses, and he just does not understand human interaction. --Sarah Hunter . And has Oscar discovered why he’s so different? Ursu (Breadcrumbs, 2011) also presents a rich world filled with natural magic and a troubling origin