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The Doldrums
Escrito por Nicholas Gannon
Narrado por Bronson Pinchot
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4/5 (30 avaliações)
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6 horas
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Lançado em:
Sep 29, 2015
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9780062395740
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Archer B. Helmsley has grown up in a house full of oddities and treasures collected by his grandparents, the famous explorers. He knows every nook and cranny. He knows them all too well. After all, ever since his grandparents went missing on an iceberg, his mother barely lets him leave the house.
Archer B. Helmsley longs for adventure. Grand adventures, with parachutes and exotic sunsets and interesting characters. But how can he have an adventure when he can't leave his house?
It helps that he has friends like Adélaïde L. Belmont, who must have had many adventures since she ended up with a wooden leg. (Perhaps a crocodile ate it. Perhaps not.) And Oliver Glub. Oliver will worry about all the details (so that Archer doesn't have to).
And so Archer, Adélaïde, and Oliver make a plan. A plan to get out of the house, out of their town entirely. It's a good plan.
Well, it's not bad, anyway.
But nothing goes quite as they expect.
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Nicholas Gannon studied art and design and held a number of odd jobs before becoming a full-time author and illustrator. He has lived in Tennessee, Minnesota, and upstate New York. He now resides in Brooklyn, and he can sometimes be found eavesdropping on curious conversations at the Explorers Club. www.nicholasjgannon.com
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- (5/5)This is a book about Archer who desperately wants to go on adventure but his mother believes it to be unsafe. In desperation, Archer starts to plan a trip to look for his grandparents who disappeared in Antarctica on a iceberg while studying penguins. Archer gets his two friends to join him. It's funny and beautifully illustrated.
- (3/5)Enjoyed the characters and the illustrations!
- (4/5)Young Archer B. Helmsley is the grandson of a pair of famous explorers, and he has very much inherited their thirst for adventure. But when his grandparents disappear on an iceberg in the Antarctic, his mother becomes so over-protective she barely lets him out of the house. Still, he's not going to let that stop him from planning a trip to look for his grandparents, with the help of a couple of friends (including a one-legged French ballerina).A decent enough kids' book with a bit of humor and some nice illustrations, but not a very memorable one.Rating: I'm sure it would have done a lot more for me as a kid as did as an adult, so I'm going to let Adult Me and Inner Child Me split the difference and call it 3.5/5.
- (3/5)Felt like this story was slowly slowly winding up to the last 2 chapters. Maybe this read is better for younger readers?