Lob - Rilegato

Newbery, Linda

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ISBN 10: 0385610815 ISBN 13: 9780385610810

Casa editrice: David Fickling Books, 2010

Riassunto

Stand quietly in a park, garden, or the woods one day. Listen! Watch! If you are one of the lucky ones, you will see him. Lob! A green man.

You have to be a special person to see Lob, that's what Grandpa Will says. Lucy's parents don't believe he exists, but Lucy does. And she's delighted when she finally catches sight of the Green Man in Grandpa's garden.

Then something awful happens, and Lucy feels that her life has turned upside-down. Back at home in London, she wonders whether she'll ever see Lob again. Will he come and find her?

Linda Newbury, with the vivid embroidery of Pam Smy's illustrations, has conjured a real green man right out of the woods and stories of legend.

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Recensione:

"Newbery has stepped into timelessness with her short novel, ostensibly for middle-grade readers, entitled LOB (2010). It is a charming retelling of the Green Man legend, rich and playfully reinterpreted, which also has a contemporary thread" (Oxford Companion to Children's Literature)

"Laced with poems, and beautifully illustrated, this is a magical story of believing in the unknown" (Guardian)

"There is something intensely comforting about this book that I'm sure parents will enjoy as well as children. Especially if they are gardeners!" (Madeline Wheatley Bookbag)

"One of the most gifted writers around must surely be Linda Newbery, and Lob, her latest novel for younger readers, is the kind of book that will inspire in children a deep love of nature, and in adults a yearning for the wonderment of childhood" (Independant on Sunday)

"There's something timeless about this lovely story, not only in its theme, which links us back to generations past, but also in the telling of it: elegant, sedate, beautifully crafted, filled with a warm kind of hope and old-fashioned charm" (The Ultimate Book Guide)

Descrizione del libro:

A beautiful and touching story filled with gardening magic from a classic storyteller.

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• Editore: David Fickling Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0385610815
• ISBN 13: 9780385610810
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 224