5/31/2023 0 Comments The 13 Clocks by James ThurberWired: A story you'll love to read out loud not too long so even little kids can enjoy it. I do think it's an excellent tale well-told, unlike much of what you've seen, and I'll enjoy reading it out loud to my kids again.īoth The 13 Clocks and The Wonderful O (which is also silly and quite fun) are available on Amazon. The language is flowery and whimsical, and Thurber is fond of throwing in words that aren't real but sound like they might be.ĭo I think the book is "the best in the world"? Well, no, but I'm not the sort of person who makes such sweeping pronouncements. My daughter absolutely loved it, even if (as I suspect) she didn't really understand some of what was going on. It's not a lengthy book-only eight chapters, just about the right length for reading at bedtime. Oh, and there's a woman who weeps jewels, an invisible spy, and "something very much like nothing anyone had seen before." And, of course, as in a fairy tale, the good guys win, the Prince rescues the Princess, and the evil Duke gets what he deserves but the true joy of the story is in the telling, and finding out how it happens. The story of The 13 Clocks is sort of a fairy-tale-ish one, with a Prince in disguise, an evil Duke with his Princess niece, an extraordinary character called the Golux, and a terrifying "blob of glup" called a Todal.
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