- Hardcover: 144 pages
- Publisher: Faber and Faber; illustrated edition edition (7 July 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0571225489
- ISBN-13: 978-0571225484
- Product Dimensions: 18.2 x 13.8 x 2.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 229,842 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'A magical, intelligent and blackly comic collection.'
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'The kind of book that Wednesday Addams might have enjoyed.’
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Another great book from Mick Jackson,
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This review is from: Ten Sorry Tales (Hardcover)
This book will appeal to parents looking for a good book of tales to read to their children, to children looking to read independently and there is plenty to entertain adults alone.The ten tales highlight the quirky side of life, with excellent illustrations to accompany the tales, including an illustration of the author himself. For me Ten Sorry Tales took A Roald Dahl type tale (twits, matilda) and developed it further. A great read.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: Ten Sorry Tales (Hardcover)
I bought this book on a review in one of the Sunday papers although when I received it, I wasn't sure whether it was intended for adults or children. Perhaps that doesn't matter as I think both will enjoy it. It is nicely presented and the illustrations suit the stories very well. The stories are a mixture of dark and disturbing through to rather comical and I wanted to cheer out loud after reading 'The lepidoctor'. All in all, a very entertaining (if short) read and I shall certainly be investigating Mick Jackson's other books having read this one.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Is this for an adult? is this for a child? And does it matter?,
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This review is from: Ten Sorry Tales (Paperback)
What an interesting writer Jackson is. I read his empathic, dark and funny The Widow's Tale earlier this year, marvelling at his ability to get into his female narrator's psyche. Then I picked up this book of quirky dark stories, beautifully illustrated by David Roberts' detailed, textured line drawings. I've only just realised that 'The Widow's Tale' Jackson is THIS Jackson.
What we have here is a sort of Cautionary Tales for Children married with the way certain authors use fable to write for adults - The Book of Lost Things. I think there's stuff here to delight a child being read to, and the reading adult will also find subversion for his/her own delight in its pages, whether or not there's a child to share the reading with. These are not MORAL tales, or tales of instruction, unlike fairy tales of myth. What they are is a celebration of the anarchic, and the eccentric, whether its a child-stealing wild man getting his own back on aspirational sophisticates, the boy who loves butterflies pitted against the conceptual artist with no empathy, or the problems of dealing with the bureaucratic nightmare caused by a group of schoolchildren upholding the rights of extra-terrestrials. And funny.
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