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| The 13 Clocks | 
 enlarge | Author: James Thurber
Creators: Marc Simont, Neil Gaiman
Publisher: NYR Children's Collection
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  40 reviews
Sales Rank: 7282
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 6.4 x 0.6
ISBN: 1590172752
EAN: 9781590172759
ASIN: 1590172752
Publication Date: July 29, 2008
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my most favorite book October 5, 2001
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
Thurber's "The Thirteen Clocks" is one of the best books ever written. The fairy-tale plot line appeals to both the young and the young at heart. No matter your age, after reading this book you will come away feeling like the world is not as rough of a place as it seemed about a half an hour ago. This book is also great to read to young children. While it doesn't have a poetic meter, the dialogue and narration progress in an almost sing-songy way that will hold the attention of even the most restless child.
why my daughter always asks me to read this December 22, 1999
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
...the writing is so lyrical, the characters so funny, and characteristic of thurber, frought with human flaws while still being heroes, and each adventure solved, in the end, by wit and ingenuity. the prose is beautifully tight. it is written, like E.B. White, for the inner ear -- sonorous, and full of Thurber mischief. "I am the Golux, the one and only Golux -- and not a mere device." My eight-year old loves the rhythm. My 11 year old loves the humor, and I love thurber's wink to me about literary devices...for us, this book is always at hand for the sheer joy of reading it aloud.
A true gem of a book! October 18, 1998
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
"The Thirteen Clocks" is book like a song or a tapestry, weaving bits of alliteration, near-poetic description, and humor-- all in the process of telling a darn good tale. The characters are each like separate jewels, ranging from the evil duke with one leg longer than the other due to kicking so many puppies when he was young, to the whimsical Gollux, a half-magical little man with an indescribable hat. Young-at-heart readers will appreciate the wonderful pictures of Marc Simont and the straight fairy-tale type story in which a wandering prince must rescue the princess from the designs of the evil duke, and other readers will appreciate the sheer craft with which the story was put together.
Timeless Perfection For Young And Old June 6, 2006
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
The Thirteen Clocks, by James Thurber, is a perfect book. The only way it could be better would be by being longer. The story is classic in its simplicity, so elemental that anyone can easily find a way inside. The big setting - a castle - the big players - a Prince, Princess, and wicked Duke (very wicked) - the big themes - courage, redemption, selfless sacrifice, and just a whiff of magic. Best of all, the big problem - time is frozen. Our enterprising Prince must do the impossible to win the hand of Princess Saralinda. This is road-tested material but Thurber breathes new life into it, making it fresh and irresistible. The musicality of his language is delightful, there is so much joy and play in the words, they giggle and dance like water gliding over stones in a stream. His rogue's gallery of secondary characters is just too good; each is slightly more improbable and splendidly cracked than the last. Most of all, this story ends exactly as it should, the resolution is not forced, it's simply correct. The Thirteen Clocks is a slice of heaven that can be enjoyed by anyone able to read. Thurber, it turns out, really was as good as he claimed. This lasting jewel proves it.
We all have flaws... except this book. August 21, 2001
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I first heard this enchantingly wonderful book on cassette tape when i was at art lessons. I would wait impatiently till the next week so I could hear more~ more about the Golux (who resembles only half the things he says he doesn't) and about Princess Saralinda and the Prince whose name begins with X... and doesn't. This book is full of whimsical wonderful wordplay and contains almost all of my favorite quotations of all time. It isn't very long, but every sentence is filled with some little quips or verbal oddities that, quite literally, made me laugh aloud. This book is without question one of my favorites of all time, a truly wonderful tale that can be read over and over again without ever growing old. Really classique. I mean, the book that's given me my tagline HAS to be great: "We all have flaws and mine is being evil."
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