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Title: The Ink-Keeper's Apprentice by Allen Say ISBN: 0-395-70562-2 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books Pub. Date: October, 1994 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A powerful book - but be prepared
Comment: At first when I saw that someone had given this book two stars, I was amazed ... then I read the whole review and saw the person gave very appropriate reasons. This book is excellent reading for a wide variety of people; the author had a highly unusual childhood, essentially becoming unofficially "emancipated" from his parents and living on his own from early adolescence. We learn a great deal about the thoughts and experiences of a talented author and writer who saw into a number of unfamiliar and intriguing worlds.
At the same time, I know what the reviewer means when she says there are a number of places in the story where events are scary or off-putting to many readers. The author isn't trying to write a shocker or a gross-out book, but he tries hard to be honest about his youthful life, and along with the delightful experiences he had in developing his artistic talents, there were some disturbing events that left him confused and hurt at the time. People who know his wonderful children's picture books might not be prepared for this one, in which not everything is "sweetness and light." So the lone "two-star" reviewer has done an important favor in cautioning you what to expect.
Nonetheless, young people looking for books that reflect some of the hard realities of life -- or who at least can read about them without being too discouraged -- can gain a lot from reading this powerfully account of the good and the bad in the life of a very unusual boy who grew into a very unusual man.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Best Simply Put
Comment: This is the best because the japanese culture is a whole new unexplored area for us 'Americans', we hardly know anything about anything in countries like Japan or China and this book displays almost the whole life of an average kid in Japan. I myself know because I used to live there. I studied there for years and I had hobbies like reading their great manga and watching their anime and this story relates to a kid like me. I love this so please if you want a great reading experiance get this and if you do read it, really read it it is truly great.
Rating: 2
Summary: Not a high ranked book on my shelf!
Comment: The beginning of this book is a nice, calm, peaceful story
about a boy interested in cartooning. But then the story
changes and is suddenly about a boy growing up, and going
through adolescence. I thought some chapters were very
gross, and other chapters were just really scary and frightful.
I am reading this book when I am eleven, and I think that
it is too old for me to read. It is about 13-15 year olds,
and the problems and things people of that age group face scare
me, or don't interest me. I don't really no whether to suggest
or not to suggest this book, but I can say you should be older
than 13 to read it, and you should be ready for a big change
in plot in the middle of the book.-Katharine Manning, American
School In Japan, 6th grade.
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Title: The Bicycle Man by Allen Say ISBN: 0395506522 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books Pub. Date: March, 1989 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: Home of the Brave by Allen Say ISBN: 061821223X Publisher: Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books Pub. Date: 30 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Tea with Milk by Allen Say ISBN: 0395904951 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 29 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: The Lost Lake by Allen Say ISBN: 0395630363 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books Pub. Date: April, 1992 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: Under the Cherry Blossom Tree : An Old Japanese Tale by Allen Say ISBN: 0395845467 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 04 April, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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