This is a review of the audio book.
Author: Jodi Lynn Anderson
Reader: Bernadette Dunne
Producer: Random House
Production Year: 2005
Lexile: 810L
Most of the listeners will be: Late elementary to middle school boys and girls.
Listeners Advisory: For another well read book with a female protagonist, listen to Cornelia Funke's Inkheart.
Summary:
May Bird lives in Briery Swamp, West Virginia with her mother and cat, Somber Kitty. She doesn't quite fit in with the kids at school and prefers wandering the woods to spending time with other children. After May and Somber Kitty find a letter to May buried in the ruins of the old post office, strange things start to happen. A map in the letter guides May to a lake hidden behind a wall of brambles. One night May falls in the lake and wakes up in the Ever After. It is where people go when they die, but May isn't dead! She has been rescued by her house ghost, Pumpkin. May finds herself in great danger because most ghosts and specters in the Ever After are deathly afraid of "live ones" and are under strict instructions from the ruler, Bo Cleevil, to call the Bogey on any "live one" they see. May has to make a difficult decision. Should she try to get home to Briery Swamp, or travel North to find the lady who wrote the letter requesting her help? In this first book (of the trilogy) May makes it as far as the city of Ether to ask the Book of the Dead what she should do. And although May doesn't know it for most of the book, her loyal cat, Somber Kitty, is never too far off her trail.
My favorite passage:
Shortly after May arrives in the Ever After she sees the word "help" graffitied on a wall. She wonders to herself how she can help anyone when she needs so much help herself. (Disc 2)
What I really think:
Bernadette Dunne brings the characters to life with her wonderful voices and is definitely in touch with her inner child. This story is truly beautiful. We feel for May as she struggles to gain the self confidence to help both herself and others. Somber Kitty is a real hero and a perfect example of unconditional love. This is a book for all the misfits out there and everyone who has ever said "I can't."
Reader: Bernadette Dunne
Producer: Random House
Production Year: 2005
Lexile: 810L
Most of the listeners will be: Late elementary to middle school boys and girls.
Listeners Advisory: For another well read book with a female protagonist, listen to Cornelia Funke's Inkheart.
Summary:
May Bird lives in Briery Swamp, West Virginia with her mother and cat, Somber Kitty. She doesn't quite fit in with the kids at school and prefers wandering the woods to spending time with other children. After May and Somber Kitty find a letter to May buried in the ruins of the old post office, strange things start to happen. A map in the letter guides May to a lake hidden behind a wall of brambles. One night May falls in the lake and wakes up in the Ever After. It is where people go when they die, but May isn't dead! She has been rescued by her house ghost, Pumpkin. May finds herself in great danger because most ghosts and specters in the Ever After are deathly afraid of "live ones" and are under strict instructions from the ruler, Bo Cleevil, to call the Bogey on any "live one" they see. May has to make a difficult decision. Should she try to get home to Briery Swamp, or travel North to find the lady who wrote the letter requesting her help? In this first book (of the trilogy) May makes it as far as the city of Ether to ask the Book of the Dead what she should do. And although May doesn't know it for most of the book, her loyal cat, Somber Kitty, is never too far off her trail.
My favorite passage:
Shortly after May arrives in the Ever After she sees the word "help" graffitied on a wall. She wonders to herself how she can help anyone when she needs so much help herself. (Disc 2)
What I really think:
Bernadette Dunne brings the characters to life with her wonderful voices and is definitely in touch with her inner child. This story is truly beautiful. We feel for May as she struggles to gain the self confidence to help both herself and others. Somber Kitty is a real hero and a perfect example of unconditional love. This is a book for all the misfits out there and everyone who has ever said "I can't."
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