[book_talk] book review - Cornelia Funke
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- Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2014 15:36:47 -0800
_The Thief Lord_
by Cornelia Funke
narrated by Simon Jones
Threatened by Aunt Esther Hartlieb wanting to separate them, Prosper
and his five-year-old brother Boniface chose to run away to Venice,
which had been the subject of so many of their mother's stories. They
certainly never expected Aunt Esther and her overbearing husband to
follow them to Italy and to hire a private detective to find them and
see them returned to Esther's control.
But Victor Goetz finds himself empathising with the two brothers,
although he is amazed by the company they are keeping. The two boys
have come under the protection of an older boy who has named himself
the Thief Lord, and they now live with Moska, Riccio, and Hornet in the
Stella Theatre, a dilapidated movie palace in a maze of dark alleys.
But when the Thief Lord is hired by someone calling himself the Comte
to steal a wooden wing from a figure from a lost merry-go-round, the
six children find themselves facing magic and mystery on a large scale,
particularly when they find themselves having to deal with a much
reduced red-bearded scoundrel in the mix!
The story is delightful, with characters I found to be sympathetic and
a situation that in spite of being fantastic still seems most natural.
And the narration is wonderful!
Bonnie L. Sherrell
Teacher at Large
"Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. For even the very wise
cannot see all ends." LOTR
"Don't go where I can't follow."
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