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Because of Alfie, this gets 5 stars. This is the 3rd book by this author that I've read. I didn't love his 'The Boy in the Striped Pajamas'...it was only 3 stars for me. 'The Absolutist' got 4 stars. I love this author's writing. His prose is absolutely beautiful. So many times, I felt wowed. He has a gift with words. I loved the story too. Alfie was such a sweet and endearing character. He also felt like a real child who had to grow up too fast. I was sad to see this book end. I think I'm still...
Check out Scott Reads It for more reviews! Few books have left a greater impression than The Boy In The Striped Pajamas did and years after reading it, I still get goosebumps thinking about it. I decided I would read Stay Where You Are & Then Leave because I was eager to see how John Boyne would tackle World War One. Though Boyne's latest novel isn't as memorable or unique as The Boy In The Striped Pajamas, it still has a lot going for it. Alfie's character is beaming with innocence and he doesn...
As 2014 is the 100th anniversary of World War I (or, The Great War), we should expect many children's and young adult historical novels to come. (I hope). I grew up watching war films and Dad's Army, so I'd love to read more novels set during that period of history. Stay Where You Are and Then Leave is one of the first novels for young people to be published ahead of the centenary, written by John Boyne, author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas .Alfie Summerfield was just five years old when
Despite the heavy themes surrounding World War I this children's book is surprisingly light in tone.Actually, to me it had vibes similar to 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' by Roald Dahl.The atmospherical writing style certainly makes me want to discover more of this well known author whose work I'd never read before.Some of the events were a bit too coincidental and the end maybe a bit too saccharine.But then again, that way it leaves the reader with a hopeful feeling.This book certainly for...
The story narrated through the view of a 5~9 years old boy about the WWI and the families left behind. And his adventure that saves his dad. Lovely little book (which you can probably finish in one gulp) about love and friendship :)
Thanks to Netgalley and Henry Holt and Company for the advanced copyAlfie Summerfield discovers on his fifth birthday that his father is going off to war, World War I to be exact, and will return when the war is over, before Christmas. That time before Christmas lasts for more than four years. He was told by his mother that the reason why letters didn't come in through the mail was because he was on a secret mission, but to Alfie, all he could translate this to was that he was dead.It wasn't unt...
"I'm nine," said Alfie for the second time. "Well, you'll be ten soon enough, I imagine. Nine year-old boys usually turn ten at some point. It's the nineteen-year-olds who have difficulty turning twenty." (122)Stay Where You Are And Then Leave is a triumphant story of a young English boy named Alfie who's father enlists in the army during the first world war. Alfie stays behind in London with his mother, grandmother, and their various neighbours as he braves a new world that makes little sense t...
John Boyne is quickly becoming one of my favourite authors, every time I read one of his books I end up reading another one straight away. Well it’s happened again, this is another book well worth reading.Five year old Alfie Summerfield worships his father and on the day the First World War broke out his father promised he wouldn’t go away to fight, only to go back on that promise the very next day. When his father’s letters stop he is told by his mother that his father is on a special mission a...
Does a different take on the typical "war novel for kids". It's good to see a light cast on all the mental torture endured and afflicted upon the soldiers. It is an often overlooked detail.
https://ravenandbeez.wordpress.com/20...If you X-rayed me right now, you would see shards of my heart all over my chest. So before beginning this review, WARNING!: YOU WILL BE EMOTIONALLY TRAUMATIZED BY THE HANDS OF A PAPERBACK!Moving on... I love history. It's something that surprises people for some reason. I might not know everything about history but I love knowing more about it. There is the appeal of the unknown. So I guess that is one of the reasons why I picked up this book from the libr...
Simply beautiful.What we learn from this book is,Love conquers all, True love make it all possible,The purest love moves mountains!“It's a big world, isn't it?' said Georgie. 'Do you think they hate each other on other planets too?”“It was the fact that I didn't want to kill anyone. I wasn't put on this earth to murder my fellow man. I'd grown up with violence - can't you see that? I can't bear it.”
