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The howevers cost reflection
Young readers discuss and analyse children's and youth literature and edit the online literary review literaturzeitung berliner jugendlicher xyz. wir für uns.
Examples using the following books:
Philip Ardagh: Schlimmes Ende. Translated by Harry Rowohlt, illustrated by David Roberts, Omnibus Taschenbücher 2002, 128 pages, as of 10 years
English Titel: Philip Ardagh: Awful End. Faber Children's Books, 2002.
Phillip Gwynne: Wir Goonyas, ihr Nungas. Translated by Cornelia Krutz-Arnold, Sauerländer Verlag 2001, 284 pages, as of 13 years
English Titel: Phillip Gwynne: Deadly, Unna? Puffin, 1998.
Jerome A. Salinger: Der Fänger im Roggen. The Catcher in the Rye. Translated by Heinrich Böll, Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag 1992, 155 pages, as of 14 years
English Titel: Jerome A. Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye.
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Reviews
Philip Ardagh, Awful End
... there are a lot of word repetitions in this book, for example ».. Mad Uncle Jack stopped at a coaching inn called The Coaching Inn.« When you start reading this book, these wordplays are funny, but gradually start to become boring and - to be blunt - annoying. I had to force myself to read this book at least up to the middle. To be perfectly clear: I think it's an awful book and would not recommend it under any circumstances.
Paula, 11 years old (Die LesArtigen)
... Don't misunderstand me: this book is somehow stupid, but great at the same time. This book is about a child and two adults with appropriate names - Even Madder Aunt Maud and Mad Uncle Jack ... The story itself is completely mad, but very well written. I would recommend it to all those who like crazy stories, but not children under ten because I do not think they would understand the joke.
Robert, 10 years old (Die LesArtigen)
... This suits young readers perfectly. He explains difficult words that you cannot know at a certain age. ... I would like to quote a funny passage from the book: »Now, you may be forgiven for thinking that a peeler is something you use to take the skin off potatoes, and you'd be right … but this peeler was a different kind of peeler. The peeler was named after a man called Sir Robert Peel, and if you think that this is beginning to sound like a history lesson, then you'd be right again - so I'll keep it short. As well as being famous for being a British prime minister, Robert Peel also founded the first proper police force in Britain, and the policemen were nicknamed peelers after him. If his name had been Sir Robert Bonk, they'd have been nicknamed 'bonkers', so they should think themselves lucky.« The author somehow speaks with the reader in the book and I liked that.
Philipp, 12 years old (Die LesArtigen)
Phillip Gwynne: Deadly, Unna?
BOONGS, GO HOME is written on the wall of a shed in the Australian village Port. Only Gary finds this graffiti directed at the Aborigines annoying. Gary Black is called Blacky by everyone, but he is not black. He is second least talented football player and is called a weakling by his father. He still dares, however, to become friends with the Nunga, a black child called Dumby Red. Dumby Red lives in a reservation for Aborigines and is a really good football player. But the Black/White conflict stands between the two of them.
Phillip Gwynne wrote this book from the perspective of the first person singular, making it easy to enter the world of the 14-year old boy. Although this novel deals with a highly controversial topic which plays a primary role in many other books, a more subtle approach is adopted in the storyline. Unfortunately, the tension is often interrupted as many of the words are explained in lengthy passages. I would, however, still recommend this book as the subject is dealt with in a different way.
Rebecca Hinzmann (Die LesArtigen)
Salinger: The catcher in the rye
The Catcher in the Rye is one the best books ever written - at least in my opinion. Right from the start, it should be mentioned that this book is no conventional rubbish that we have all already seen a thousand times. Anyone expecting a serious novel written in the best German will be disappointed.
The book is about a sixteen year old schoolboy named Holden Caulfield who tells of a few days in his life, written in his own language augmented by swearwords and so on. The narrative is in the first-person singular. He either likes people a lot or has an indescribable hatred of them. He calls them as phoneys or snobs. Whole passages in the book deal with these people. He smokes constantly and always want to drink, but most barkeepers think that he is too young despite his height and a few grey hairs ... All I can say is that The Catcher in the Rye is a funny and odd book. Holden Caulfield's way of assessing and dealing with the things that happen around him is wonderful. Sometimes he does not care about things, such as school, and on occasion he becomes cross about other things, such as the phoneys. My recommendation is: buy this book and you will love Holden Caulfield and his philosophy of life. Eno Wohlgemuth (xyz, Nr. 7)
Eno Wohlgemuth (xyz, Nr. 7)
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