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Sally Gardner
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Pages: 288 (Paperback)
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
ISBN: 0142407631
Pub: Puffin Books
Pub date: 2007-03
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 62956
Reader Reviews:
Best book ever!!! (1/1 people found this helpful)
This magical Classic had me hooked from the first word up until the last sentence, i just could not put it down. Parts of it were tricky to follow but i highly recommend it to anyone who likes magical,murderous spell binding tales. This well written book has to be my favourte book of all times. Coriander is a normal girl with loving parents and a wonderful life. But she tries on some beautiful shoes and from that day on she learns how evil this world is. Her mother murdered by evil Rosemore, her father arrested and if that is not enough she lives with the 'devil' himself, who goes by the name of Arise Fall. He locks Coriander up in a chest and leaves her to die. But what happens when she discovers her dead mothers secret? Will it be enough to save her!!!
A page turner! (0/0 people found this helpful)
I was recommended this book by a friend who said it was a historical fantasy type novel. Fantasy genre is not really for me but this book totally suprised. After about the third or so chapter I just had to read on and finished it really quickly as it was so gripping...
The book is about a girl who lives in the time of the english civil war when her mother dies and her father a royalist gets sent away and Corriander is left with her father's second marrige to a horrible lady called Maud. She treats Corriander terribly and Corriander sees nothing doom. But her mother before she died had lived in a different world and when Corriander locked up in a chest travels there she realises her life has only just begun....
Please do not think that this book is a soppy fairy story because it really is not it is a fantastic serious novel with a really good plot and much deeper than a fairy story. The novel is a really great read and kept me captured in it till the very last page.
The book would best suit aged 10+ and if you like anything historical, fantasy or a really gripping you HAVE to read this. But really anybody would enjoy it as it has something for everyone.
Great story, needs to work on her history (0/1 people found this helpful)
"I, Coriander" is a lovely story. And taken purely as a story, it's probably one of the best new pieces of children's fiction to crop up in the post-Potter landscape.
So why only two stars? Well, although she's written a strong narrative, Sally Gardner has done her readers a serious disservice by her misrepresentation of what actually happened in the 1650s.
Having fallen completely for the Royalist view of the Interregnum she drops in all the old cliches about what a horrible bunch of killjoys the Parliamentary victors were. Not everyone on the Parliamentary side was a Puritan (as she'd have us believe in her historical afterword), and quite a few Puritans were thoroughly admirable characters, even by modern standards (Milton, among many others).
So although "I, Coriander" is a good novel, I don't think Gardner should be allowed to get away with pumping all this misinformation about the English Revolution into kids' heads. Some of the values many Parliamentarians stood for - freedom of speech and of conscience, for starters - need all the support they can get at the moment.
Fantastic! (1/2 people found this helpful)
This is the best book that I have ever read. It is fantasy and adventure mixed together!! It's amazing!!!!!!!!
The Silver Shoes (1/4 people found this helpful)
I was lent this book by a very dear friend. I finished it quickly but it stuck in my mind. It was fabulous. Beautiful. I arrived at work the following week to find a parcel had been left for me containing the most beautiful pair of silver shoes. I am dying to wear them to London Bridge... just in case. A well recommended read. Just be careful if you are reading it on the Tube - you might miss your stop, more than once :)
xoxo
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