Magic Ark - Hardcover

Brian Price-Thomas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0517567059 ISBN 13: 9780517567050

Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers, 1987

Synopsis

After spying through the garden fence as his neighbor, Mr. Antrobus, builds an ark, a young boy is summoned to join the mystical ark builder on a round-the-world trip to deliver the animals in pairs

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

Mr. Antrobus wears a top hat and frock coat. He lives next door to a boy who has been trying to get to his neighbor's yard for some time and see the Noah's Ark, where Mr. Antrobus keeps his wooden animals. On the boy's sixth birthday, Mr. Antrobus offers him a ladder for a present. The boy discovers that it floats, but he's not surprised, for he has seen his neighbor pass over the garden gate in the ark. One day, the boy rides with him and witnesses how he carries his animals to the far edge of the world so that they can roam freely. Price-Thomas's watercolors are exquisite; in contrast to their aura of unreality, his sculptured animals have a three-dimensional solidity. Although this story is the product of a potent imagination, it remains shrouded in poetic haze; and while the author attempts to draw conclusions to the wise, the boy's questionsand those of readersremain unanswered. A book with much to offer is really just another pretty sight. Ages 4-8.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0517567059
• ISBN 13: 9780517567050
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32