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Chargement... The Haunted Playground (1997)par Shaun Tan
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Part of a series of simple chapter books from Australia, recently released in the U.S. by Stone Arch Books, a publisher specializing in "Hi-Lo" books. These are titles intended for older students who are reading below their age and grade level - "high interest, low level." The Haunted Playground follows young Gavin as he becomes involved in a series of eerie late-night games with a strange group of children. It has the necessary combination of simple language, and suspenseful, non "babyish" narrative, that will appeal to reluctant readers. As an admirer of Shaun Tan's picture-book work, I was curious to see what he would do with a longer, more textual book. Although I found the plot-line itself rather pedestrian, I believe that it will function quite well as a tool to improve literacy. But the primary charm of the book, for me, was Tan's series of delicate and intricate etchings, which convey a real sense of menace to the reader. Interest Level: Grades 5-9, Ages 10-14 Grade Level: 2-3 A young boy in search of hidden treasures decides to take his metal detector to a new park far from where he lives in hopes of finding a greater bounty there, but is sorely disappointed when he doesn't find anything at all. Then as night falls and the lights are switched on, he is shocked to discover several children appear seemingly out of nowhere. Are they ghosts? Are they just making fun of him? And why does he find it so physically difficult to get back home once he's gone well past his curfew? I borrowed this very small and short novel from the lending library, hoping to discover more artwork by Shaun Tan, the genius behind The Arrival, and was slightly disappointed to find only a handful of (necessarily) small black and white illustrations, albeit good ones. Still, a good story from the strange mind of the man also responsible for The Lost Thing and The Red Tree, among others. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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When Gavin takes his metal detector to a new playground to hunt for lost objects, he instead discovers a group of mysterious children who only appear after dark, and who tease him and try to persuade him to play with them until late into the night. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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