- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: Usborne (April 29 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0746060416
- ISBN-13: 978-0746060414
- Product Dimensions: 13.4 x 21.5 x 1.9 cm
- Shipping Weight: 200 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,024,976 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Product Description
A riotousy funny and deeply personal story of wonder, discovery and friendship, full of eccentric characters and fantastical adventures, by one of America's best-loved authors. When David falls ill his tough old Aunt Annie offers to tutor him, and he soon grows fond of The Gawgon, as he nicknames her because of her resemblance to the terrifyuing Gawgon Medusa of Greek myth. Together they embark on exciting imaginary adventures rescuing King Tut's treasure, scaling mountains and outwitting master criminals.
About the Author
Lloyd Alexander is one of America's most distinguished writers and the award-winning author of The Chronicles of Prydain. He has won the Newbery Medal and has received a Lifetime Achievement Award for Children's Literature from Parents' Choice and another from the World Fantasy Convention.
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Not About an Invisible Boy at All but the Story of a Sick Boy and His Imagination!, Aug 27 2007
By James N Simpson - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Fantastical Adventures of the Invisible (Paperback)
I have to admit I bought this story based on the title (I mean Amazon provides no information nor does anyone else) and was kind of expecting it to be about an invisible boy and his adventures (I assumed they supposedly would be fantastic). I anticipated a story along the lines of H.F. Saint's classic Memoirs of an Invisible Man or Donald E Westlake's book Smoke but you know with a kid as the main character and from the picture on the cover maybe it was set back in the era of sailing ships and explorers and stuff.
So I was to be honest somewhat annoyed when I started reading the book to find out it's the story of a boy called David who seems to be living in the Charles Dickins era of London (although he says he's in Philadelphia, USA in the 1920's) but anyway he is forced to stay home sick and being set in an historic era where doctor's use bizarre and strange remedies of treating patients he outlines what he is medically going through while breaking into a fantasy world between treatments of being a pirate captain of a ship called the Sea Fox and his adventures in that fantasy world. About half way through the book David's ecstatic state of mind of being away from school is brought crashing down when his boring Aunt Annie volunteers to tutor him and he knows his fantasy world is going to turn into a boring reality. David however couldn't be more wrong!
If a boy from the Charles Dickins era's fantasies about being a pirate and other stuff are what you are after then you probably can't ask for a better book. Don't know why they didn't call the title something that would attract that target market though. Mentioning an invisible boy and having a story about something else is a little bit wrong and unethical though in my opinion.
If adult fiction invisible man adventures were what you were after read Memoirs of an Invisible Man or Smoke. If junior fiction invisible man/boy tales were what you were really looking for then the best of this genre are My Best Friend Is Invisible (Goosebumps) by R. L. Stine, You Are Invisible: CYOA #48 by Susan Saunders, The Invisible Day by Marthe Jocelyn, Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich by Adam Rex, you can even get an illustrated version of H.G. Wells 1897 classic The Invisible Man (Great Illustrated Classics).
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