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Opere di Gordon Snell

Oh No! More Canadians (1998) 10 copie
The Library Ghost (2000) 9 copie
Hysterically Historical (1990) 7 copie
Wonderful Thursday Club (2001) 6 copie
Fear at the Festival (2001) 6 copie
Curse of Werewolf Castle (1996) 5 copie
The Thursday Club (2000) 4 copie
The Deadly Camera (2005) 4 copie

Opere correlate

Adventure Stories (1988) — Collaboratore — 82 copie
Wild and Free: Animal Stories (1997) — Collaboratore — 7 copie

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Informazioni generali

Nome canonico
Snell, Gordon
Sesso
male
Nazionalità
UK
Ireland
Luogo di residenza
Dalkey, Ireland
Attività lavorative
children's book author
scriptwriter
Relazioni
Binchy, Maeve (wife)

Utenti

Recensioni

I thought that this was a very interesting story and could keep the reader’s attention through the pictures and especially though the rhyming of the text. The words were very playful and the rhyming flowed very well. I like how this book captures children’s’ imaginations and questions about travelling to the “edge of the earth.” It keeps their creativity going while teaching a lesson about questioning others and not believing everything they hear; there are multiple sides to an argument.… (altro)
 
Segnalato
kedwards1991 | Sep 7, 2012 |
John Peters (Booklist, Jan. 1, 2001 (Vol. 97, No. 9))
In these 12 new stories, young people approach or step over the threshold of adulthood, driven by soul-deep infatuation, a glimpse of girls in underwear, failures of parents or older sibs, beginning a new life in America, or ending one in a Liverpool abortion clinic. Some ominous or horrifying experiences (a teenager discovers bulimia, a girl is physically tortured by peers for dating a "proddy") alternate with profound or triumphant discoveries (a girl turns lemons to lemonade after losing her hair to chemotherapy). Aside from Chris Lynch and Maeve Binchy, the authors here may be new even to well-read American teens, but brief biographical notes provide some background as well as leads to other titles. As editor Snell points out, Ireland is moving away from it's violence-ridden, economically depressed past, so readers whose vision of the country has been shaped by immigration and potato-famine stories may be surprised by how often the teenagers and the concerns in these selections seem familiar.… (altro)
 
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Jen8 | Nov 27, 2007 |
This is a postive book about a librarian, Joan Bright, who is helpful to the children as well as being open to new ideas. However her replacement (and one of the obvious bad guys of the story)Miss Carr is almost a cliche of all that is bad about some librarians and some of the cliches about librarians. If I was to seriously nit-pick the story I would point out that she would have been stopped earlier for some of her actions and that her appointment was dodgy at the least, but that's because I know a lot about public libraries. However the entire thing works for the story.

This is the story of the Ballygandon Gang, a group of children in Ballygandon who get involved in mysteries and adventures, a missing doccument and further run-ins with some previous nemesis'. It's a fun read and although it's part of a series and it would be better to read in sequence as there are references to previous adventures it works on it's own.
… (altro)
 
Segnalato
wyvernfriend | Nov 24, 2007 |

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Chris Lynch Contributor
Shane Connaughton Contributor
Peter Cunningham Contributor
Vincent Banville Contributor
June Considine Contributor
Ita Daly Contributor
Tony Hickey Contributor
Jenny Roche Contributor
Helena Mulkerns Contributor

Statistiche

Opere
40
Opere correlate
3
Utenti
246
Popolarità
#92,613
Voto
½ 3.7
Recensioni
3
ISBN
61

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