Wildwood
Roman
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- $19.99
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- $19.99
Publisher Description
Der Jugendbuchbestseller aus den USA – wundervoll erzählt und atemberaubend schön bebildert
Das Leben der zwölfjährigen Prue verläuft völlig normal. Zumindest bis ihr geliebter kleiner Bruder Mac eines Tages von einer Schar Krähen in die Lüfte gehoben und in die Undurchdringliche Wildnis verschleppt wird, ein großes und dicht bewachsenes Waldgebiet am Rande von Portland. Um ihren Bruder zu retten, überschreitet Prue die Grenzen des Waldes und entdeckt eine unglaubliche Welt …
Colin Meloy ist mit seinem Debütroman ein zauberhaftes Leseerlebnis für Jung und Alt gelungen.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Meloy, the lead singer of the band the Decemberists, delves into middle-grade fiction with a story that pairs classic adventure novel tropes with cool, disaffected prose. The book opens as 12-year-old Prue McKeel loses her baby brother to a murder of crows, and sets off to rescue him from the Impassable Wilderness, a strange country alongside Portland, Ore., (where the actual Forest Park lies). Her classmate Curtis tags along, and the two are soon separated. Prue takes refuge with the postmaster in his delivery van, while Curtis is captured, then suddenly made an officer in an army of talking coyotes led by the beautiful and intimidating Dowager Governess. It becomes apparent that Prue and Curtis have landed on opposite sides in a war and neither side may be right. Without a good side to cheer for (disappointments and betrayals abound), the story lacks a strong emotional center, and its preoccupations with bureaucracy, protocol, and gray-shaded moral dilemmas, coupled with the book's length, make this slow going. Ellis's spot art, not all seen by PW, is characteristically crisp and formal, further lending the story a detached quality. Ages 8 12.
