The Keeper of Wisdom
Language: English
Published by Barefoot Books, 2000
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Bay State Book Company, North Smithfield, RI, U.S.A.Bay State Book Company
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Condition: Used - Good
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The book is in good condition with all pages and cover intact, including the dust jacket if originally issued. The spine may show light wear. Pages may contain some notes or highlighting, and there might be a "From the library of" label. Boxed set packaging, shrink wrap, or included media like CDs may be missing.
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- Title
- The Keeper of Wisdom
- Author
- Berkeley, Laura
- Publisher
- Barefoot Books
- Publication year
- 2000
- Condition
- good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 184148203X
- ISBN 13
- 9781841482033
- Illustrator
- Dexter, Alison
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Reviews
K-Gr 3-An old woman and her donkey come to the marketplace of a prosperous city. She unpacks 12 ancient books said to contain all the wisdom in the world and offers them for sale to the mayor. He isn't interested, but he later dreams about another city buying half of the volumes. The following year, the old woman offers the remaining texts, but again the mayor turns her down and has a similar dream. In the end, there is only one book left, and the city has fallen on hard times. The mayor buys it, then becomes a pilgrim in search of the other city, "-so that we can learn to live like its people." This preachy tale falls flat, and its heavy-handed message may confuse children. While the prosperity of one city, whose only crime seems to be that of complacency, foreshadows its doom, the city that purchases the old woman's wisdom is rewarded with-prosperity. Just in case readers don't get it (and they probably won't), the message is spelled out in an overlong publisher's note. Dexter's jewel-toned, mosaiclike watercolors are attractive but cluttered, a look that is not enhanced by the Bradley Hand typeface. It's wise to pass on this one.-Donna L. Scanlon, Lancaster County Library, PA
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