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Type of bind: Hardcover
EAN num: 9781590172759
Format: Illustrated
ISBN number: 1590172752
Label: NYR Children's Collection
Manufacturer: NYR Children's Collection
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 128
Printing Date: July 29, 2008
Publishing house: NYR Children's Collection
Age index: Ages 9-12
Release Date: July 29, 2008
Sale Popularity Level: 1440
Studio: NYR Children's Collection
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Once upon a time, in a gloomy castle on a lonely hill, where there were thirteen clocks that wouldn’t go, there lived a cold, aggressive Duke, and his niece, the Princess Saralinda. She was warm in every wind and weather, but he was always cold. His hands were as cold as his smile, and almost as cold as his heart. He wore gloves when he was asleep, and he wore gloves when he was awake, which made it difficult for him to pick up pins or coins or the kernels of nuts, or to tear the wings from nightingales.
So begins James Thurber’s sublimely revamped fairy tale, The 13 Clocks, in which a wicked Duke who imagines he has killed time, and the Duke’s beautiful niece, for whom time seems to have run out, both meet their match, courtesy of an enterprising and very handsome prince in disguise. Readers young and old will take pleasure in this tale of love forestalled but ultimately fulfilled, admiring its upstanding hero (”He yearned to find in a far land the princess of his dreams, singing as he went, and possibly slaying a dragon here and there”) and unapologetic villain (”We all have flaws,” the Duke said. “Mine is being wicked”), while wondering at the enigmatic Golux, the mysterious stranger whose unpredictable interventions speed the story to its necessarily happy end.
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Without question the best children's book of all time, and high on my list of books to own, regardless of age.
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This was the very first book I ever remember, and the very first book I could read to myself. I have read it out loud to many children, and hope to read it to future grandchildren. My copy, from 1950, sits with Darwin's Origin of Species, Ulysses, and the complete full size edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, and I consider The 13 Clocks to hold its own against these masterpieces. I must have been about 6 when my father very first read it to me, and it inspired me to learn to read myself. I named my doll Saralinda, but I have not had the courage to name a pet The Golux because it would be too important, almost a sacrilege.
In this new era, when I see small children using iPhones and plugged into video games, I hope that this new issue of Thurber's masterpiece and the publicity it has garnered will help at least a few parents to unplug the electronics, and just sit down to read out loud to their children. This book can be read to toddlers - the poetry and rhymes are like Seuss. It can be read to older, wiser 8-10 year olds because it is scary and melodious. And I have read parts of it out loud to 50 year olds, especially those with compassion fatigue, as there is no more clear literary example of burnout than Hagga, who went from crying diamonds to crying costume jewelry and rhinestones.
I am glad that others remember Thurber, and that a new generation can now appreciate what I consider to be the best children's book ever written.
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A wonderful book that is special for children and their parents - the perfect combination of silly and sweet. Thurber tells us in his preface that he had a great time writing the book and you can feel it. Read this book aloud to your kidlets so you don't miss out on the fun of his word choices.
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The 13 Clocks is an amusing tale with lots of dry wit for grown-ups and charming pictures for kids. The story has a satisfying flow and conclusion where the bad guy pays and the good guy wins.
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"Once upon a time, in a gloomy castle on a lonely hill, where there were thirteen clocks that wouldn't go, there lived a cold, aggressive Duke, and his neice, the Princess Saralinda."
Well. that very first line has just about everything you need to start off a fairy tale, doesn't it? And it only gets better from there.
The New York Review has just reissued Thurber's classic, paired with the illustrations by Marc Simont, with a new introduction by Neil Gaiman.
The 13 Clocks is as full of fairy tale as you can get, with a Princess, the evil Duke, and, of course, a Prince. But there's also a Golux, who seems wise, but who sometimes makes things up and is extremely forgetful, the 13 clocks, an old woman who cries jewels, and the Todal ("The Todal looks like a blop of glup. , , , It makes a sound like rabbits screaming, and smells of old, unopened rooms.")
The story, although it's exciting and scary and thrilling, isn't even the best part. No the best part, as far as I'm concerned is the words that make up the story itself and the poetical way Thurber weaves them together. It's not really poetry, yet, at the same time, it is. This story, like poems, uses those glittery, evocative, slippery wonderful words -- like "brambles and thorns and "bonged the gongs of a throng of frogs, all purple and vivid on their lily pads." Words like "gleep" and "made of lip" and "impudence" and "savage clash of swords." -- that together imbue the tale with feeling and delight.
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This is truly a wonderful story and one that simply begs to be read aloud.
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