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The Unwritten Girl: The Unwritten Books (édition 2006)

par James Bow (Auteur)

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Rosemary Watson lives in the small town of Clarksbury, where news travels fast and gossip sticks around. Years before, her brother Theo suffered a nervous breakdown, and Rosemary, now entering junior high, is constantly teased about it. She wonders if she might go crazy like her brother, and she feels guilty for not being able to save him. She tries to hide in books, but even there she's uneasy: she can't stand to see characters suffer. She's happiest in the cool world of fact and figures. Rosemary and Peter - the new kid in school with issues of his own - are thrown together, and soon find themselves on a life-or-death quest to rescue Rosemary's brother, who has lost himself in a book. With the help of Peter and her guide, faerie shape-shifter Puck, Rosemary must face the storybook perils of the Land of Fiction and learn to open her heart, before it is too late.… (plus d'informations)
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Titre:The Unwritten Girl: The Unwritten Books
Auteurs:James Bow (Auteur)
Info:Dundurn (2006), Edition: 1st Edition, 180 pages
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Review by Nancy Holzner

You’re reading a book and then you put it down, turning your attention to other things. What happens to the book’s characters when you stop reading? That’s the question James Bow asks in The Unwritten Girl, a charming and imaginative fantasy for middle-school readers.

Rosemary Watson prefers facts to stories; she’d rather read the Encyclopedia Britannica than get emotionally involved in the pain and conflict of literature. But when her older brother Theo literally loses himself in a book, Rosemary must venture into the Land of Fiction to find him and bring him home.

Rosemary is helped on her quest by Peter, a new boy at her school, and Puck, Midsummer Night’s Dream character and their guide in the Land of Fiction. Every bit as strange as you might image, the Land of Fiction is the kind of place where ideas grow on trees and a boy can turn into an eagle just by asking, "What if?" It’s populated by all kinds of characters: from numbers to knights, from detectives to a villainous mad scientist. There’s also a girl very much like Rosemary, who was left in a terrifying situation when Rosemary stopped reading her book.

Puck describes the Land of Fiction as “a patchwork of stories,” and that’s how Rosemary and Peter experience it. With each new story they enter, their clothes and surroundings change, and they encounter new characters and a new test. Rosemary is smart and resourceful, and Peter makes a likable and loyal sidekick. As they themselves become characters in a series of stories, they face increasing danger and learn important life lessons.

Author Bow clearly had a lot of fun creating this world. The Unwritten Girl is the kind of book that richly rewards imaginative involvement. Middle-school-aged readers will enjoy Bow’s silly puns and sometimes mind-bending ideas, although they’re likely to miss literary allusions to writers such as Shakespeare, Agatha Christie, and Arthur Conan Doyle.

http://www.romancing-the-book.com/2009/05/review-unwritten-girl-by-james-bow.htm... ( )
  RtB | Apr 27, 2011 |
Reviewed by Carrie Spellman for TeensReadToo.com

Rosemary Watson likes the company of books much better than that of people her own age. Which explains her hesitance to accept the help of the new boy, Peter. That and the weird thing she saw in the library right before. It looked like a girl, but it folded up and disappeared. The only thing Rosemary knows for sure is that it was angry. And if there’s anything worse than a hallucination, it’s one that’s mad at you. Maybe she’s just going to have a nervous breakdown like her older brother, Theo.

Due to a huge freak storm, and missing the bus, Rosemary is forced to bring Peter home. Theo seems to be literally lost in a book; he can’t put it down or stop reading it. He won’t even let Rosemary look at it. When she manages to get a peek, she is shocked to realize the book is blank until Theo reads it. Theo snatches the book out of her view and warns her to “look out for the books."

After another visit from angry ghost girl, a near breakdown from Theo, and a message from Puck, it appears that it is up to Rosemary and Peter to save Theo. He has gone to the Land of Fiction to try and keep Rosemary safe, and now she needs to rescue him.

Rosemary and Peter must navigate the Land of Fiction, with Puck as their guide. They must meet challenges, find their strength, face their fears, and find out why so many of the characters in the Land of Fiction are so angry with Rosemary.

I can’t describe to you how great I thought this book was! Between the idea of being truly sucked into a book, to living in the stories that you’ve read, to the fabulous reason that all of the characters are upset. It’s hilarious, scary, exciting, and impossible to put down. I’ve always loved Puck, and the fact that he speaks mostly in iambic pentameter, intended or not, is just too perfect. If you’re a book fanatic, this is an absolute must! ( )
  GeniusJen | Oct 13, 2009 |
A young girl named Rosemary must face the perils of fiction in order to save her brother's life.

I initially agreed to review this book because the synopsis reminded me of the sort of Canadian children's lit I loved when I was little. I got a real Carol Matas vibe from the descriptions, and I was all over her books when I was nine and ten. I'm pretty sure I'd have loved this book at that age, too. I'm not sure that it has as much crossover appeal for adults who read children's lit, but kids are going to get a real kick out of this.

At least, kids who read will. Rosemary comes up against a number of different challenges as she travels through the Land of Fiction, all of which have firm roots in genre traditions. She faces off against a set of shapes from a children's picture book, a knight from a fairy tale, a haunted house, a train of mystery... you get the picture. Young readers who're already familiar with these sorts of stories should have a lot of fun disecting them and trying to guess which book each reference comes from. Teachers, too, may find that they can use THE UNWRITTEN GIRL as part of a unit on different types of stories.

I also really liked Rosemary's family. Her parents are great, and her little sister's brief appearances are just adorable. I appreciated how Bow dealt with some darker themes, too; Rosemary and her friend Peter come up against issues like mental illness, parental death and sacrifice, even as they hobnob with dancing squares and child detectives.

On the down side, I did feel like Bow could've gone deeper in some areas. I wasn't particularly concerned about Rosemary's brother, for example, as we saw so little of him. We know that he's had some emotional problems in the past and that his family worries about him, but we don't spend enough time with him to form any sort of a connection to him. It also would've been nice to see a little more of the budding friendship between Rosemary and Peter. What we do get is very nice, but I think there was room for a bit more.

Overall, though, this was a quick, enjoyable read that I'd recommend to young readers. (It's marketed as YA, but I got more of a middle grade feel from it). This would be a great option for kids who aren't quite old enough for Jasper Fforde. And to top it all off, it's likely to scare the younger set into finishing every book they start.

(Review copy provided by the author. A slightly different version of this review originally appeared on my blog, Stella Matutina). ( )
  xicanti | Feb 24, 2009 |
The Land of Fiction, is not only populated by characters from the books Rosemary and Peter have read, (and there is great fun to be had spotting these) but also characters representing narrative devices such as the ‘Fearmonger’ and the ‘Mystery Man’ characters you won’t necessarily recognise but whose work you certainly will.

Rosemary’s journey with the help of Peter and the mischievous Puck is not only to rescue her brother, but also to understand why. Why her brother was taken in the first place and why bad things and people like the Frearmonger are necessary.

And of course the best sign that a book is good is when upon finishing you immediately want to know more, what happens next? What’s the next adventure?

Read my full review at:
http://www.bartsbookshelf.co.uk/2006/09/10/book-review-the-unwritten-girl/ ( )
  bart154ce | Aug 6, 2008 |
Rosemary Watson tries to slip through life unnoticed, although the other students at her junior high tend to make her the butt of all their jokes. She tries to be normal, to keep life as quiet and nondescript as possible so people won't think she's like her older brother Theo, who suffered from a nervous breakdown years earlier. She manages to have a fairly normal life, that is, until the day in the school library when she sees a girl fold herself up until she disappears. Which just happens to be the day she meets Peter McAllister.

The Unwritten Girl is the story of Rosemary’s quest to rescue her brother Theo who has been trapped in The Land of Fiction by a book he is unable to stop reading. Assisted by her new friend Peter and the mischievous Puck, most recently read in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Rosemary must overcome her fear and desire to be invisible if she has any hope of success.

First and foremost, The Unwritten Girl is a story about books. James Bow says in his blog that "The Land of Fiction is a compilation of a number of stories I read when I was younger (or had read to me) that had a lasting effect on me." He goes on to state that he loves children's literature for "the clarity of the storytelling, the innocence, the wonder and the sense of transformation."

Bow has taken the standard quest formula and turned it on its head or as he describes it: “The Unwritten Girl is a sorta fairytale. We take very unfairytale characters through a fairytale setting, taking the mickey out of a number of cliches, while at the same time celebrating the genre." His love of this literature is evident in the style and content of his writing as he riffs a bit on the standard characters of fairy tale fare: the damsel in distress complete with attitude; the Fearmonger - specific to no book but present in all; and the Mystery Man whose Magical Mystery Train holds many familiar tales, including a nod to Murder on the Orient Express.

For adult readers, Bow takes us on a delightful, nostalgic trip with The Unwritten Girl; however, what is more important is how young adults will respond to this book. Despite its fantasy/fairy tale setting, The Unwritten Girl addresses some fairly serious issues; mental illness, being an outsider, the death of parents and bullying. In many ways, this is a fairly dark book and Bow deftly handles these significant topics without resorting to clichés or becoming preachy.

Given that Bow has short excerpts of what appear to be "future" adventures of Rosemary and Peter on his blog, I am hopefully that we'll soon see more books featuring these engaging characters. I read this through in one sitting and my autographed copy is going into my permanent collection.

http://antheras.blogspot.com/2006/07/book-review-unwritten-girl-by-james.html ( )
  Antheras | Jul 9, 2006 |
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Rosemary Watson lives in the small town of Clarksbury, where news travels fast and gossip sticks around. Years before, her brother Theo suffered a nervous breakdown, and Rosemary, now entering junior high, is constantly teased about it. She wonders if she might go crazy like her brother, and she feels guilty for not being able to save him. She tries to hide in books, but even there she's uneasy: she can't stand to see characters suffer. She's happiest in the cool world of fact and figures. Rosemary and Peter - the new kid in school with issues of his own - are thrown together, and soon find themselves on a life-or-death quest to rescue Rosemary's brother, who has lost himself in a book. With the help of Peter and her guide, faerie shape-shifter Puck, Rosemary must face the storybook perils of the Land of Fiction and learn to open her heart, before it is too late.

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