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Title: The Golden Goblet (Puffin Newbery Library) by Eloise Jarvis McGraw ISBN: 0-14-030335-9 Publisher: Puffin Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1990 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.6 (77 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A GREAT book!
Comment: The book THE GOLDEN GOBLET is an great book for kids. It is about an orphan boy named Ranofer. After his mother and father die, Ranofer is forced to live with his half-brother, Gebu. Ranofer labors at the gold smiths shop and comes home every day to find a half-loaf of bread. Ranofer finds out Gebu is stealing gold, and with the help of his two friends, Heqet and the "Ancient," they try to stopped him. The big theme in the story is family. Throughout the whole book, Heqet and Ancient are becoming Ranofer's family. Ranofer learns to trust in them for help and encoraging. I would give this book 5 stars. It really takes you into the land of Egypt with a view like you have never seen before.
Rating: 2
Summary: Below Expectations
Comment:
"The Golden Goblet", by late childrens book author Eloise Jarvis McGraw, tells the tale of Ranofer, an orphan boy in Ancient Egypt, who lives with his evil half brother Gebu after his father, Thutra the master goldsmith dies. Gebu isn't very fond of Ranofer, so he takes his job at the Goldsmiths, a job Ranofer prides, to make him an apprentice at his stonecutting shop. Gebu also takes the coppers he earns, and only gives him a loaf of bread, and occasionally an onion. Ranofer only has two friends: Heqet, an apprentice whom Ranofer met while he was still at the goldsmiths, and The Ancient, a papyrus cutter who Ranofer meets one night while walking home through the marshes.
This book starts out very, VERY slow. It was hard to pick up on everything, as characters wern't introduced, but act as if we already know them. A common mistake in many books. Then some of the most boring dialogue I've ever read. When Gebu removes Ranofer from the goldsmiths to make him an apprentice at his stonecutting shop is not only the climax, but when things finally start to get interesting, and this is somewhere around 100 pages in! This is when conversations start to have more depth in them, Ranofer starts doing things that are actually interesting, and he starts to get on Gebu's back, which is as action-packed as this gets.
A major crime in this book is tomb-robbing. This was set in a time when tombs were bigger than your house, and had everything the corpse ever had in them, because Egyptians believed the corpses would wake up and resume life by living in the tomb. And if you robbed one, you were stealing from rich people or leaders, and you were put to death. Gebu steals many things. This makes Ranofer uneasy, so he is now out with the Ancient and Heqet to spy on him and prove him guilty of theft. The rest of the book is the process of doing so.
To sum this up, the dialogue and demonstration on Ancient life is very good. Everything else trails by a mile. Only get it if you're not too big a fan on action books, or if you like learning about Ancient history.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Golden Goblet (It's one of the best books i've read!)
Comment: Looking for a really good book??? READ THE GOLDEN GOBLET!!!!!
I thought The Golden Goblet was an excellent book! Set in anicient Egyptian times, the book told a lot about the history of Egypt. Although the beginning of the story seemed like a drag to many people, I didn't think it was that bad, although it didn't explain a lot and didn't seem to be getting anywhere. The book actually started getting REALLY interesting, right at about the fourth chapter. If you are planning to read this book, give it a chance, and if you start getting bored at the second chapter, just keep reading, until after you finish the third chapter.
What I really didn't like about this book was that Ranofer, the main character seemed to be so secretive about lots of things, like the golden goblet, with his own friends! I thought that he should have told his own friends what he thought, so that they could somehow help him. If he had done this, he wouldn't have had so much trouble in the end, when he had problems with trying to catch his evil brother, Gebu, the stonecutter, and Gebu's friend Wenamon, the mason, while they tried to rob the tomb of a pharaoh and his wife, who had only died recently (in the story).
I thought that this book was an exceptional story, and it's good especially if you're studying about ancient Egypt (that's when I read it). So, have i convinced you that this story is REALLY REALLY good? (It is, SERIOUSLY) But the only way you can find out what a good book it is, is if you read it for yourself! I'm telling you, if you're looking for a good book, this is the one for the job!!!
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Title: Mara, Daughter of the Nile (Puffin Story Books) by Eloise McGraw ISBN: 0140319298 Publisher: Puffin Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1990 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare ISBN: 0395137195 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company Pub. Date: 01 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: Tales of Ancient Egypt (Puffin Classics) by Roger Lancelyn Green, Heather Copley ISBN: 0140367160 Publisher: Puffin Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 1996 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt (Landmark Books) by Elizabeth Payne, J. Thomas ISBN: 0394846990 Publisher: Random House Children's Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1981 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Hittite Warrior (Living History Library) by Joanne Williamson ISBN: 1883937388 Publisher: Bethlehem Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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