The Several Lives of Orphan Jack - Sarah Ellis 电子书mobi+epub
Product details
Age Range: 7 - 10 years
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Paperback: 88 pages
Publisher: Groundwood Books; First Trade Paper edition (February 10, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0888996187
ISBN-13: 978-0888996183
The Several Lives of Orphan Jack Paperback – February 10, 2005
by Sarah Ellis (Author), Bruno St-Aubin (Illustrator)
https://www.amazon.com/Several-Lives-Orphan-Jack/dp/0888996187
Product details
Age Range: 7 - 10 years
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Paperback: 88 pages
Publisher: Groundwood Books; First Trade Paper edition (February 10, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0888996187
ISBN-13: 978-0888996183
For young Jack, life is tough at the Opportunities School for Orphans and Foundlings. But Jack is good at staying out of trouble.
But when Jack turns twelve, he is given the biggest opportunity of all, and suddenly his life is nothing but trouble.
Jack is made an apprentice to a bookkeeper, which at first sounds like the job of his dreams. Taking care of books -- what could be better for a lad whose most treasured possession is a grubby, torn dictionary that he received from the Benevolent Ladies Auxiliary one year for Christmas. But Jack soon learns the hard way that bookkeeping does not involve keeping books safe. Life becomes a misery, and he decides he has no choice but to run away.
But Jack is a clever and resilient boy, and he takes to the traveling life like a creature of the field. Then he arrives in the market town of Aberbog. Lacking worldly merchandise, he becomes an ideas peddlar, selling whims, concepts, plans, opinions, impressions, notions and even fancies. After a rocky start, the dour Aberbogians take him to their hearts, and Jack must decide whether it is time to settle down, or continue his life on the road.
Review
[An] agile tale about wanderlust and the power of words. Ellis demonstrates through her creative - and often surprising - use of metaphor that an active imagination and rich vocabulary are a healthy combination. (Horn Book 2003-12-03)
...there is real strength in Ellis's turns of phrase, use of imagery, and alliteration, and in showing readers the power of words and ideas to liberate the imagination. (School Library Journal 2003-12-01)
Ellis has created a small gem here, with messages about following your heart tucked into the sentences, phrases, thoughts, and ideas that she seamlessly weaves together. (Booklist, STARRED REVIEW 2003-12-03)
The playfulness of this picaresque short novel is utterly engaging. Words, words and more words, alliterative pairs of words like villains and volumes, scholars and scoundrels, toffee and tyrants, fall in torrents from the pages... (Globe and Mail 2003-09-03)
Told with the outsize zest of a tall tale, this vibrant, well-crafted novel starts strong and gets even better. (Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW 2003-08-03)
This special book is filled with often humorous and extraordinarily rich descriptive prose that is always a pleasure to read and full of surprises. (Marya Jansen-Gruber Through the Looking Glass Children's Book Reviews 2011-05-02)
About the Author
SARAH ELLIS is a celebrated author, teacher and children’s literature expert. She has written more than twenty books across the genres, and her books have been translated into French, Spanish, Danish, Chinese and Japanese. She has won the Governor General’s Literary Award (Pick-Up Sticks), the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award (Odd Man Out) and the Sheila Egoff Award. Her first novel, The Baby Project, remains a children’s classic, still in print more than thirty years after publication.
Sarah is a masthead reviewer for the Horn Book Magazine, and she is a former faculty member at Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Bruno St-Aubin is one of Canada's most renowned children's book illustrators and to date has written or illustrated over 130 picture books and novels.
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