Macmillan Children's Books Framed

Eine Geschichte für Kinder, interessant und spannend und sehr gut und verständlich gelesen. Unsere 12jährige liebt sie. Zusammen mit dem Buch einfach perfekt.

The delicery was fast and the book was as described also the price was pretty fair.. . .Thanks

Farfelu, drôle, tendre....A lire absolument comme remède contre la grisaille et la mauvaise humeur!Et ensuite on est pris d'une irresistible envie de visiter les musées londoniens et le pays de Galles.

I love this book! The characters are colorful and touching, and the story never wanes. It may not be the book for young or struggling American readers (or would at least have to be read with support), as the dialect differences need to be understood through context, but I think the majority of readers would really enjoy this story.

This review is being given by my 9-year-old:Last year we went on a plane trip to the United States for Christmas. We bought two books for the plane: Millions and Framed. When we landed in the States, we lost Framed, but when it was found I read it all in one go because I couldn't put it down.I felt like a whole new world had all of a sudden been opened up. The content is great for children, and the story is just fantastic! I never tire of reading it. The writing is brilliant and I get a perfect idea of what the town of Manod is like. I love arts and crafts, so this was the ideal book for me. I love the idea of a bunch of pictures hidden like buried treasure under a mountain and I learned so much about the pictures in it (though I would have loved it if the painting 'Whistlejacket' was featured in it too!)For example, The Grotesque Old Woman by Massys and Manchester Madonna by Michelangelo. They're all in the National Gallery in real life, so you could take a trip to see them, or just look them up on the internet.Even now, I re-read it and can't put it down. The main character is quiet and doesn't know anything about art -- the most he knows is the names of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which he uses Donatello and Michelangelo as names for his two chickens. The man hiding all the paintings meets the main boy, Dylan, when he stops at the petrol station that Dylan's dad owns. He mistakenly thinks Dylan likes art because of the chickens' names, shows him a lot of pictures of paintings, and then Dylan, his sister, and a character named Daft Tom, join together to steal Sunflowers by van Gogh in order to rescue his dad's ailing garage.Plot and character come together to make a fascinating read for both adults and children, and if I wrote down a list of the top ten best books of all time, this would be at the top!