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Barkbelly: A Magical Adventure (Hardcover)

by Cat Weatherill (Author) "Fish Patterson pulled out a grubby handkerchief and mopped his brow ..." (more)
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  • Hardcover: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Puffin Books (7 April 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0141381167
  • ISBN-13: 978-0141381169
  • Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14.2 x 3.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 506,839 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The Independent, April 4, 2005
Falls squarely into the glorious category.

Funday Times, April 10 2005
A memorable, magical adventure, bursting with imagination and wacky characters.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A wonder to the world, 2 Nov 2006
By Birdman (Astbury, Cheshire, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Barkbelly (Paperback)
A fantasy story set in many places, this book thrills any reader to the bone. Barkbelly is a wooden boy, hatched out from a wooden egg that his foster parents threw in a blazing fire. His foster mother was delighted to find that it was a baby as she had been cursed with an illness that meant she could not have a child. However, worst comes to the worst when Barkbelly is involved in a game of Bull Run at his local school. He hits Little Pan Evans, the weakest child in school, and sends him flying like a bird through the sky and hits the playground with a crack. He is dead.
Barkbelly sets on a journey, doing everything to try to forget this unforgettable trauma. He recovers from a series of accidents and runs far enough to find out where wooden people like him live. He is on the trail for his family. Yet when he finds them he gets rejected. Nothing is going right for him, or is it? A cracking novel from the famous Cat Weatherill
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5.0 out of 5 stars A story of adventure and redemption, 6 May 2006
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I really loved this book. It has been with me for most of the past month, a chapter or two read at bedtime every night to my boys aged 8 and 6. At times I thought I was losing my young audience - it's a very big book for the age group - but never for long. It is a terrific book to read aloud, showing clear evidence that it was written by a woman used to telling stories. My 8 year old loved it for the adventure, my 6 year old clearly followed the story and was particularly thrilled at the appearances of the circus. I loved it for its central message of redemption, to paraphrase 'that you may have done a bad thing but that an essentially good person deserves to find peace'. My only reservation was the ending - just a little too Narniaesque - but that really didn't detract from the book, especially not for its target audience. I look forward to sharing more of the author's books with my three children.
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