- Paperback: 160 pages
- Publisher: Puffin Books; New edition edition (25 July 1974)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140306927
- ISBN-13: 978-0140306927
- Product Dimensions: 18 x 10.8 x 1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,026,871 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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CASTLE OF BONE is a brilliant novel about the transformation and the borderline between fantasy and reality.
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Hugh's father buys him a cupboard to put his clothes in - but that is the one thing he cannot do because this cupboard changes things. It changes a wallet into a frightened pig, it changes Hugh's friend, Penn - in fact it affects them all, eventually.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The story is about a boy called Hugh who has a new cupboard, but whenever he puts something inside and closes the doors when he opens them the item will have transformed into something earlier in its life, eg. a leather purse turns into a pig, etc. The book is very, very strange. It describes Hugh's feelings very well, and successfully manages to blur the lines between fantasy and reality. It's a quiet sort of book - even the ending focuses on feelings and thoughts instead of action - but this works quite well, thanks to the theme. It's not a book for someone who likes a fast-paced adventure, but it does change the way you look at things and makes you think.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I read this story over 30 years ago and I still remember parts of it well. Many aspects are dreamlike, mythical, and I guess that's why. It's a story about growing up. It brings sci-fi elements and myths like the Arthurian legends and elements of Greek or Egyptian mythology (eg the story of Isis). I wouldn't be surprised if the writer wasn't a member of one or other 'schools of the soul' that use these kinds of myths in their teachings. The cupboard reminds us of 'The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe', of course, but the story's more modern than CS Lewis and the children are more 'ordinary'.
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Wonderful Children's Fantasy
17 April 2004
Format:Library Binding
"It couldn't happen--yet it did. A pigskin wallet, placed in the old wardrobe cupboard that Hugh had just acquired secondhand for his room, turned into a large white pig that fell out, terrified, the moment the cupboard was opened. Hugh, his sister Jean, and Penn and Anna, their next-door neighbors, all gave chase to it. Then they experimented--and it was true. Anything left in the cupboard was returned to some earlier stage of its existence. But there was no telling how far back the change would take things.
For Hugh, sleeping in the same room as the cupboard, the nights became a series of haunting dream-adventures all centering around a strange castle. These he kept to himself. And then, by accident when they were roughhousing, Penn fell backward into the cupboard--and came out as a very small boy. The children's panic mounted, finally becoming terror, as they strove to return Penn to his rightful self and at last went into the cupboard with him."
The above is a short summary of "A Castle of Bone" by Penelope Farmer, a suspenseful fantasy novel perfect for young readers intrigued by strange worlds beyond our own and the magic that can happen in ordinary life. It bears some comparison to "The Chronicles of Narnia" and "The Indian in the Cupboard" but is a wonderful original novel in its own right. This inventive and imaginative book would appeal to readers who enjoy fantastic adventures with a good dose of suspense!
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