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If you're a fan in whatever fashion of L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Fourth dimension series, I have a feeling you'll dig these books. They're very much their own work, but I'grand trying to give you a identify to leap forth from.
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Okay, the first thing to keep in listen is that Susan Cooper wrote these books long earlier JK Rowling was writing, and then if y'all see the parallels of an English boy who discovers he has magical powers on his eleventh birthday...well, y'all just have to suck it upward and admit that Cooper did it offset.These are Astonishing books. I was trying to recollect of which ane I liked all-time, but they're all so expert! Much darker than most children'south fantasy. Very scary. When I was ten, I didn't sleep for days after reading "The Dark Is Rising." Also, you can read the offset two books out of order--nigh people seem to read "The Night Is Rise" earlier they read "Over Body of water Under Stone." They will feel like they were written past two different people, because "Over Ocean Under Stone," is like a lighthearted children'south adventure story, and "The Dark Is Ascension" is much more, well, DARK.
Likewise, the stories are very much tied to the legend of King Arthur, if that is what floats your boat. Won't say any more...you just have to read it yourself!
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These are the books that made me dear reading, that made me sneak a flashlight under the covers at nighttime to choice up where my father had concluding read aloud. The sequence begins mundanely, with iii children going on holiday in Cornwall in Over Bounding main Nether Stone, and ends in a battle of Arthurian If you similar:
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These are the books that made me love reading, that made me sneak a flashlight under the covers at night to pick upward where my father had last read aloud. The sequence begins mundanely, with iii children going on holiday in Cornwall in Over Sea Under Rock, and ends in a battle of Arthurian proportions in Silver on the Tree. Read this book—it is fluid, well-plotted, excellently characterized, funny, scary, tragic, and awesome. ...more
Although Susan Cooper has been resident for some years now in the United states of america all 5 books are firmly rooted in United kingdom of the
A dstinctive feature of this series of five children'southward books is that there are 2 distinctive groups of view point characters. A "normal" family group of three siblings who are the lead characters in Under Sea and over Stone and in Greenwich, while a boy with magical powers is the atomic number 82 in the remaining iii novels The Dark is Ascent, The Grayness Male monarch and The Silver on the Tree.Although Susan Cooper has been resident for some years now in the United states of america all five books are firmly rooted in Britain of the late 1960s and early 70s developing a potent sense of landscape - that of Cornwall in Nether Sea and Over stone and Greenwitch, the Thames valley betwixt Christmas and New Yr in The Dark is rising, or Wales in The Gray Male monarch and The Silvery on the Tree.
Increasingly the childrens' plunge into magic and mystery angles into Arthurian legend. Recommended for youngsters, information technology is the kind of serial that can abound with the reader as the books go more complex, and take more magical, fantastical and mythological elements as they progress.
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I went on to read all v books in the series:
Over Body of water, Under Stone is the kickoff book in the serial, and was written by Susan Cooper in response to a publishing content organised to honor the retention of Edith Nesbit, ane of the great Golden Age children's writers. She did non finish the manuscript in time to enter, and the book was after turned down by more than twenty publishers, before being accepted by Jonathan Cape and published in 1965.
It tells the story of Simon, Jane and Barney who become to Cornwall on a holiday with their family and end up existence defenseless upwardly in a quest to notice the lost Holy Grail. Drawing on Arthurian mythology but set up in contemporary times, the book introduces the children'due south Great-Uncle Merry, a professor at Oxford who ends upwardly revealing mysterious powers. The book is more like an former-fashioned mystery than a traditional fantasy, except with eerie unsettling moments of darkness and magic, particularly towards the end.
The 2nd book in the serial, The Dark is Ascension, was published in 1973. Information technology tells the story of Will Stanton, seventh son of a seventh son, who turns 11 on Midwinter Eve, and finds his safe and comfortable world threatened by foreign and eerie events. For Will is, he discovers, an Old One, destined to fight on behalf of the Light confronting the ancient and malevolent forces of the Dark. Merriman Lyon – the character of Swell-Uncle Merry – returns as the Oldest of the Old Ones, and becomes Will's guardian and mentor. Volition needs to discover Vi Signs if he is to defeat the forces of darkness this midwinter and help fulfil a mysterious prophecy:
"When the Nighttime comes rise half dozen shall turn it back;
Iii from the circumvolve, 3 from the rails;
Wood, bronze, atomic number 26; Water, fire, stone;
Five will render and 1 get alone.
Atomic number 26 for the birthday; bronze carried long;
Wood from the called-for; stone out of vocal;
Burn in the candle ring; water from the thaw;
6 signs the circle and the grail gone before.
Fire on the mountain shall discover the harp of gold
Played to wake the sleepers, oldest of old.
Power from the Green Witch, lost beneath the sea.
All shall find the Lite at last, silver on the tree."
Of all the books in the series, The Dark is Rising is my favourite, perchance because information technology was the first I ever read, maybe because of the vividness of the setting (a small snowfall-leap English village that seems outwardly normal but is still adumbral with magic, menace and danger), possibly because I loved the idea of an ordinary boy who finds himself the carrier of an extraordinary destiny. The volume as a ALA Newbery Accolade Volume in 1974, and is often named on lists of the all-time books for children ever published.
Greenwitch, the tertiary in the series, brings Simon, Jane and Barney back to the petty Cornish village where they had discovered the lost Holy Grail. Jane watches an aboriginal ritualised offer to the sea and makes a wish that then helps the Light unlock the secrets of the Grail. Greenwitch is the favourite of many female person readers of this series, because the primal protagonist is a daughter and she triumphs not because of any battle of strength, but because she is compassionate and empathetic.
The Grey King, the quaternary book, returns to the point-of-view of Will. He wakes after a long and terrible illness with no retentivity of his role as an Old One and at take a chance from the forces of the Dark who seek to strike him own while he is vulnerable. Sent to Wales to recuperate, Will meets an albino teenager called Bran who has a strange dog like a wolf. Guided just past snatches of retentivity, Volition and Bran must find the golden harp that will waken the Sleepers under the colina. This is my favourite 2d of the series, again because of the setting – the wild mountains and moors of Wales is brought so wonderfully to life – and too considering of the sense of the great struggle between the forces of skillful and evil. The Grey King won the 1976 Newbery Medal.
Silverish on the Tree is the final book in the series, and brings Will and Bran together with Simon, Jane and Barney and their mysterious Neat-Uncle Merry. They are searching for a magical crystal sword which will enable them to cutting the mystical mistletoe, the 'argent on the tree', in the terminal battle against the Dark. Drawing on Welsh mythology and stories of a drowned land, the suspense is heightened by the presence of a hidden enemy, someone who is trusted but betrays them in the cease.
It was truly wonderful to re-read this series, which had such a powerful shaping force upon my imagination equally a kid. And a great deal of the pleasure came from sharing it with like-minded people. The twitter book club gear up by Robert Macfarlane and Mary Bird intends to choose other great works of fantastical literature to read over the year. I'll can't look to be a part of it.
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I loved these when I read them aged 9 or 10, and have very fond memories of feeling enveloped within their earth.
Book 1 - Over Body of water, Under Stone
I recall having found this series in my local library when I was in middle school and loved information technology. The first book I read was GREENWITCH, but then I went back and read the whole series.
When I saw that the whole series was in 1 book, I decided to go back and relive my youth. Would information technology be as proficient? The answer is yeah!
I am still enthralled and thrilled. The suspense and the wonder is still there. I love it!
Volume 2 - The Nighttime Is Rise
I saw the movie of this a while dorsum. I remember at the fourth dimension thinking that I didn't remember reading that book. Well, at that place'southward a reason! There's no comparing between the book and the pic!
Merriman is dorsum and so is the Nighttime. Sinister horseman, time travel, magic imbued in trees, and Twelfth Dark.
Book iii - Greenwitch
Back to Cornwall and the Dark is threatening one time again. Merriman, Volition, and the children from the first book. Jane has a more than prominent office in this one, and Will seems to have matured with his power.
Book 4 - The Grey King
So powerful. The darkest of the books yet. We are in Wales in the wilderness. A underground comes along.
Book 5 - Silverish on the Tree
The final fight confronting the Night! The Drews, Volition Stanton, Bran, and Uncle Merry become to Wales for the concluding boxing.
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I showtime read these books about twenty years ago, when I was just 9 years old. I afterward forgot most them, although certain images and scenes have been rumbling around in my caput for the better office of a decade. These scenes had managed to imprint themselves very deeply, then that long afterward the name of the writer and the titles of the books were forgotten, I kept coming dorsum to these flashes.Recently I managed to get someone to identify the story on the scifi stackexchange. I immediately purchased this box set and read through all 5 books in nigh two days fourth dimension.
Needless to say, I was sorely disappointed. The books are terrible. I know that at least two of them are Newberry award winners, simply I really found them unbearably difficult to read. In fact, I tin can't imagine how hard information technology must have been to slog through at the historic period of nine. The books tell of an ancient and ongoing battle between the Lite and the Dark, with champions on either side striving to have control of the earth and humanity. Arthurian fable is Heavily recycled. There are objects of power, Edith Blyton type children running about on quests, and seemingly all-powerful beings who yet are always just one footstep backside the enemy.
The storyline is just barely articulate. The characters are extremely flat. Substantial explanation and pontificating on the part of a narrator. At no point toes one actually experience that the characters actually worked through a problem. The respond is always just suddenly clear, or someone swoops in to save the day. I found it most impossible to relate to them.
Bottom line: I would probably not recommend these to my 9-year-old cocky. Meliorate to get an early commencement on true epic fantasy from Jordan, Rothfuss and Sanderson.
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Over Sea Under Stone is aimed at the youngest audience of the five books, but it's still readable and the prose is lovely. The characters are instantly recognisable as children, rather than the mini-adults some writers make children, and they're easy to identify with. If nothing else, you have to be charmed past Barney. There's real suspense in this book: if your middle isn't in your mouth while Barney and Simon are crawling through the tunn
This is probably my favourite series of books of all time.Over Ocean Nether Stone is aimed at the youngest audience of the five books, simply information technology's still readable and the prose is lovely. The characters are instantly recognisable as children, rather than the mini-adults some writers make children, and they're piece of cake to identify with. If goose egg else, yous take to be charmed past Barney. At that place's existent suspense in this book: if your heart isn't in your rima oris while Barney and Simon are itch through the tunnel, yous have no soul. More detailed review here: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
The Dark Is Rising, the 2d book, seems to be for a bit older audience. It constantly amazes me how well even minor characters, like Paul Stanton, are developed. Will Stanton is both man and alien -- equally he should be. His coming of age rings very true: one moment he's accepting his ability, but the next he's still a immature boy setting fire to things. I accept a more than detailed review here: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Greenwitch is the shortest volume. Information technology's the ane I think of as focusing more on Jane -- I got to care about her more in this 1. Again, the characters are amazingly believable, and there'south real tension and suspense. Longer review here: http://world wide web.goodreads.com/review/bear witness/...
The Grey Rex is lovely. It introduces the final member of the Six, Bran Davies. It's too set in Wales, which naturally endears it to me. The characters in this volume are all believable and spectacular. And the very stop, where Owen and Bran stand together, brings a lump to my throat every fourth dimension. Proper review here: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Silver On The Tree is the final book. Everything comes together hither. More tension, more glorious characters -- and a wonderful ending that kinda makes me want to kill Susan Cooper for what she'southward done to some of my favourite characters. Full review here: http://world wide web.goodreads.com/review/show/...
The groundwork mythology is extremely interesting and drawn from all parts of the United kingdom. The picture stripped all of this away, among other things, so I boycotted it.
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My own years become by and too many things change, but I still come dorsum to these stories once again, over and over. I've read them aloud to my first child. I can't wait to read them aloud again to my two younger children, as much to revisit the fictional friends who anchor me to the wonder and magic of youth as to share that magic with my daughters and son. ...more
To understand the whole y'all apparently demand to read all the books. However, I would propose starting with the second book The Nighttime is Rising (same name as the whole).
My favorite in the series, and the outset I read, was The Grey Rex. I did not feel that I suffered for doing so, in fact perchance information technology was why I liked the entire series.
Enjoy...if yous dare.. A series I take enjoyed for many years. It is a children's book, so not for everyone.
To understand the whole you obviously demand to read all the books. However, I would suggest starting with the second book The Dark is Ascension (aforementioned name as the whole).
My favorite in the series, and the kickoff I read, was The Greyness King. I did not feel that I suffered for doing and then, in fact maybe it was why I liked the unabridged serial.
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There are 5 novels in this sequence, which is for immature readers, perhaps ix upwards, I'd estimate, though ten is suggested on the jackets. I missed them in my ain childhood. The starting time (Over Sea, Nether Stone) must have seen the low-cal of twenty-four hour period in the early seventies, and by then I was seventeen or xviii and had read The Lord of the Rings several times, likewise every bit a huge range of scientific discipline fantasy for adults. But had I been 10 when information technology was first printed, I would have loved it.I would have loved information technology because I was a sucker for anything with magic in it. Now, going back, I worry about that a flake, because some of the things I loved were neither well-written nor well-conceived. At the age of nearly fifty-nine I wonder whether some developed influence might accept introduced me to the mysteries of science, rather than science fiction. Just the imagination was my master, and to some extent that continues to exist truthful.
I imagine that anyone who read this sequence, and loved it, at the right historic period would battle to the death on its behalf. Even at my age, I can witness to the fact that the step is compelling, that the style is slick and convincing, that there is at least one potent female character (give thanks goodness). Of the five novels, The Nighttime is Rising is the second, Greenwitch the third, The Grey Male monarch the fourth, and Silver on the Tree the last.
So what'southward the plot?
Volition Stanton, the youngest of the children in the series, is as well one of the 'Old Ones', which is a bit similar being a Time Lord in Physician Who. He is the seventh son of a seventh son, and he must exist the character most kids would identify with, unless you're a daughter, in which case you may be stuck with Jane Drew. Non quite so sure about Jane. "The world where we live is a world of men, ordinary men, and although in information technology there is the Old Magic of the world, and the Wild Magic of living things, it is men who control what the world shall be similar."
Okay and . . .
". . . beyond the world is the universe, bound by the constabulary of the High Magic, equally every universe must be. And beneath the Loftier Magic are two . . . poles . . . that we telephone call the Dark and the Light. No other ability orders them. They merely exist. The Dark seeks by its nighttime nature to influence men then that in the end, through them, it may command the globe. The Calorie-free has the task of stopping that from happening."
Needless to say, Will (who is young simply Former) is on the side of the Calorie-free and then are the other children, and their great uncle "Merriman" who disappears into the twilight at the end (sorry, that's a spoiler, though you would have guessed anyway) and is also, probably, Merlin. In that location'due south a lot of Arthur in this sequence, but also various other mythological threads, and Herne the Hunter drops in more than once. (Herne really gets around in children's fiction and one 24-hour interval possibly someone will describe some conclusions about that.)
"From time to time the Dark has come ascension and has been driven back" and this sequence focuses on the biggest rising of all. For the children the chore is to "bulldoze it dorsum, then that the earth of men may be free."
Yes, it is a bit vague, only on the other hand, Night is not exactly bad, and Lite is not exactly good, which is in Susan Cooper's favour. There are bits of prophetic verse hither and there, from which the favourable outcomes can always be predicted. And some of the well-tried recipes for children's fiction are operational: no parents in evidence, for example. Children pitched against villains and defeating them. Children with insight that adults practice non have. And lots of mystical language and allusion. In two of the novels, Welsh names and terms are specially evocative.
I think, of the five novels, the title novel –The Dark is Rise – which is where Volition Stanton comes into his own, is the strongest. Information technology is set at Christmas, in England, and the Dark invokes mammoth snow (among other things) and the pace is wonderful. But all the five books are readable, enjoyable, practise that affair, whatever it is, create a spell.
I worry a bit virtually the mixing of myth in children's fiction. While reading this I had at the back of my heed Alan Garner (who too draws on the Mabinogion, but far more disturbingly and more consistently, and as he goes on, he is not really writing for children); J R R Tolkien (because you tin't read this without being aware of the influence); E Nesbit; J Chiliad Rowlings; John Masefield; and C S Lewis. By no ways a comprehensive list, of form.
On balance, I recollect Lewis is strengthened by existence able to draw on one consequent myth – the Christian story, in which he believed, though many of his readers may not. Tolkien is head and shoulders above the rest, to me, because he creates a whole world of his ain, in a way that has never been paralleled (only and then I would say this, because I have been his slave since I was most ten years old). Rowlings scrapes upwardly scraps and remoulds them, and they are scraps that work again and again: witches and Old Stuff and no parents in the vicinity. Masefield invokes Herne the Hunter as well, but too history and poetry and dream.
I don't call up Susan Cooper believes in Arthurian legend in the same way that Lewis believes in Christianity, though there may exist a apparent pantheistic thing going on. I don't know a lot about Susan Cooper, but I think it to her credit that she conceived this sequence as v short novels and stuck to that. No sequels. No spillage. No merchandising.
On the downside, she uses the word 'malevolent' and 'malevolence' an atrocious lot. When the Night creeps up, and then does a feeling of imminent malevolence. It takes over everything. Something impish in me wants to banish this by slightly taking the piss, and I'thou reminded that Joss Whedon, who exploits the whole nineteenth century vampire myth-kitty, manages to have fun at the aforementioned time.
So in the stop, I'm non certain how adept I think these novels are. I'm merely sure that I'm now the wrong age to judge. But when I was the age to have enjoyed them, I am sure they would have had me riveted. I hope I would have emerged with my sense of humour intact, but I'g not 100% certain.
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So Shelly Radmall and I were talking most being Anglophiles when nosotros were chatting terminal at a girls' night out. I asked her if she'd read these books as
I'1000 sure most of y'all friends who might end up reading this review have already read this series, but for anyone who hasn't, these books are the pre-Potter classics that may have really sparked J.K.'s joy of reading when she was a daughter (in fact, I do think reading one particular article in which Rowling mentions Susan Cooper as a favorite hero).Then Shelly Radmall and I were talking about beingness Anglophiles when we were chatting last at a girls' night out. I asked her if she'd read these books equally they definitely satiate an English and Welsh appetite for all things classic regarding: expert vs. evil/wholesome children post-obit a good-old mystery regarding ancient British lore/and exquisite details of the European countryside. She said she wanted me to mail this series so she could bank check information technology out. Then, in that location they are! Savor! I can't wait to share these with Rees in iv or v years.
(They are and then well-written, they actually should be considered developed literature, but they're commonly branded for kids every bit the chief characters are children, though they are pretty mature and intellectual kids...)
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The writing is simple, elegant and bright, the characterisation much more detailed and complex than one might wait from books aimed at children, and the descriptions of settings are always spot on, then real that you can smell them.
Once more, my aunt Michele (who is probably barely talking to me just now, apologies once more) was the wonderful person who gave me this book. She gave it to me for my 11th birthday, and someone else gave me scented pillows, and I can nevertheless scent those pillows everytime I opened the book. Sadly, my copy has finally disintegrated, then I shall have to replace it again before Christmas of this year.
This book is wonderful - magic, mystery, bang-up bad
Long before there was Harry Potter, in that location was Will Stanton.Again, my aunt Michele (who is probably barely talking to me merely at present, apologies once again) was the wonderful person who gave me this book. She gave it to me for my 11th birthday, and someone else gave me scented pillows, and I can still olfactory property those pillows everytime I opened the book. Sadly, my re-create has finally disintegrated, so I shall have to supersede it once again before Christmas of this yr.
This book is wonderful - magic, mystery, swell baddies (who would win - The Dark Rider v Voldemort)and a series of books that enthral me even now.
If you like Harry Potter - you will love this.
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They are also wonderful on tape.
My full reviews for each individual volume may be found at my blog (except spoilers for each book). The links are below:
Over Sea, Nether Stone
The Dark is Rising
Greenwitch
The Grayness King
Silver on the Tree
Happy Reading!
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Very imaginative, and grippingly good to read.
Susan Cooper was born in 1935, and grew up in England'due south Buckinghamshire, an expanse that was greenish countryside then simply has since become part of Greater London. Equally a child, she loved to read, as did her younger brother, who also became a writer. After attending Oxford, where she became the start woman to ever edit that academy'south newspap
Susan Cooper's latest book is the YA novel "Ghost Hawk" (2013)Susan Cooper was born in 1935, and grew upward in England's Buckinghamshire, an area that was green countryside then but has since become part of Greater London. Equally a child, she loved to read, every bit did her younger blood brother, who likewise became a writer. After attending Oxford, where she became the first woman to ever edit that university's newspaper, Cooper worked equally a reporter and feature writer for London'south Sunday Times; her commencement boss was James Bond creator Ian Fleming.
Cooper wrote her offset book for young readers in response to a publishing house contest; "Over Ocean, Under Stone" would later form the basis for her critically acclaimed 5-book fantasy sequence, "The Dark Is Ascent." The quaternary book in the series, "The Grey Male monarch," won the Newbery Medal in 1976. By that time, Susan Cooper had been living in America for 13 years, having moved to marry her starting time husband, an American professor, and was stepmother to iii children and the mother of two.
Cooper went on to write other well-received novels, including "The Boggart" (and its sequel "The Boggart and the Monster"), "King of Shadows", and "Victory," as well as several picture books for immature readers with illustrators such as Ashley Bryan and Warwick Hutton. She has also written books for adults, every bit well as plays and Emmy-nominated screenplays, many in collaboration with the actor Hume Cronyn, whom she married in 1996. Hume Cronyn died in 2003 and Ms. Cooper now lives in Marshfield MA. When Cooper is not working, she enjoys playing pianoforte, gardening, and traveling.
Contempo books include the collaborative project "The Exquisite Corpse Adventure" and her biography of Jack Langstaff titled "The Magic Maker." Her newest book is "Ghost Hawk."
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Three from the circumvolve, three from the track;
Wood, bronze, fe; Water, fire, stone;
Five will render and one go lone.
Iron for the birthday; bronze carried long;
Wood from the called-for; stone out of song;
Burn down in the candle band; water from the thaw;
Half-dozen signs the circumvolve and the grail gone before.
Fire on the mountain shall notice the harp of gold
Played to wake the sleepers, oldest of old.
Power from the Dark-green Witch, lost beneath the sea.
All shall find the Light at last, silver on the tree."
Must the youngest open up the oldest hills
Through the door of the birds, where the breeze breaks.
In that location fire shall fly from the raven boy,
And the silver optics that run into the wind,
And the lite shall take the harp of aureate.
By the pleasant lake the Sleepers prevarication,
On Cadfan'due south Way where the kestrels call;
Though grim from the Grey Rex shadows autumn,
Yet singing the gold harp shall guide
To pause their slumber and bid them ride.
When low-cal from the lost land shall return,
Half-dozen Sleepers shall ride, six Signs shall burn,
And where the midsummer tree grows tall
By Pendragon'due south sword the Dark shall autumn.
Y maent yr mynyddoedd yn canu,
air-conditioning y mae'r arglwyddes yn dod."
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