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A little arty, a little abstract, a little sad. I'm not sure to whom I would recommend this odd, brief little story of loneliness -- certainly not to children, it would be depressing and potentially upsetting.I don't think everything distressing is necessarily inappropriate for children, but there are plenty of important real topics they should know about without inflicting this strange, artificial tale of a girl trapped alone in a model castle in a museum case upon them. When I was little it wo...
If I were to give a review based on illustrations alone, then The Girl in the Castle Inside the Museum would be five stars. Sadly though, the actual story is lacking. The concept of The Girl in the Castle Inside the Museum is brilliant. It's a story of a little doll that lives in a castle inside a display globe at the museum. She's very curious about the children who come to see her. She's also very lonely when they go home, and dreams about having friends. Again, it's a beautiful concept, but I...
I was attracted to the art and the title. I was hoping for a light fantasy fairy tale but nothing much happens. There's a girl inside a castle, which is a minature inside a museum, which is inside this book. She's lonely and likes when you visit.
The art here is lovely, so lovely that I had the urge to rip out the pages to hang them framed on my wall. And since there's really no substance to the text, maybe that wouldn't be such a bad idea. As much as I loved the illustrations, I think the story (about a lonely princess in a castle who dreams about children visiting her) was sort of boring and lacked kid appeal. The inside cover calls it an original fairy tale but the book lacks any of the traditional fairy tale elements aside from the f...
The three stars are for the amazing illustrations, they're really great.The story wasn't what I expected when reading the title. I found it to be a bit short, it is a children book, but I would've loved more events.
actual rating: 1.5 starsWhat a disappointment :(Those 1.5 stars are entirely awarded to the illustrations. Nicoletta Ceccoli deserved to illustrate an actual worthy story, not this... thing.The story is absolutely pointless. "Reminiscent of The Lady of Shalott'"? How? Because they were both in a tower? "An original fairy tale"? Where? This was artsy fartsy stringed nonsense attempting to be taken as ~deep~. There was absolutely no writing skill, very little imagination where the story is con
I give this five stars for its otherworldly illustrations. Anyone who noticed the great cover of "Horns and Wrinkles" will enjoy these pictures, "rendered in acrylic paint, clay models, photography, and digital media." This is way I love to see the computer being used for art: to polish technique, save time, and add layers, but to leave the execution mysterious, and not have the final result scream "I drew this in PhotoShop." This is the same reason I will always prefer "The Ugly Truckling"'s il...
I was distinctly underwhelmed by this first children's book offering from Kate Bernheimer, the editor of the journal Fairy Tale Review, as well as such collections as Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales and Brothers & Beasts: An Anthology of Men on Fairy Tales . I'm not sure what I was expecting - probably something more along the lines of an actual fairy-tale - but The Girl in the Castle Inside the Museum didn't have enough of a narrative to retai...
This was a peculiar and rather creepy book. I do think some young children would enjoy this but I’d be cautious about introducing it to children who are very sensitive or who easily over empathize with others. It’s a sad story that the gimmick of the child/children reader(s) putting their photo in the book toward the end (to be company for the lonely girl trapped in the castle inside the museum) doesn’t suffice to make it an consoling or uplifting experience, at least it wouldn’t have for me whe...
Inside the Castle inside a Museum that is Inside the Story that is this book, which was inside the imagination of Kate Bernheimer and Nicoletta Ceccoli. Dreamers inside dreams who have dreams wherein the reader is brought to mind.The story and its images would defy the dimensions of a page. Ceccoli plays with dimensions (some Escheresque details), media, and shadows, while Bernheimer acknowledges the reader in a theatrical violation of the fourth wall. The story resides in simultaneity, multiple...
*I moved my introduction to the end of the review, since it was a bit long and boring...First of all, the illustrations. Obviously. They were simply haunting, beautiful, disturbing and altogether fantastic. Like the porcelain dolls at that bed 'n breakfast. You know the one, you're worried they'll come alive, but somehow you're hoping for it as well because they're sad and lonely and beautiful. ...I'm not talking about the creepy porcelain dolls. ... the ones that you're afraid will come to life...
This is a picture book unlike any book I've ever read. The premise is that there is a girl who lives in a castle inside a museum. The castle is encased in a glass globe, and when children come to the musem, they press their noses against the glass globe and get a glimpse of the girl in the castle. When the children leave at night, she gets lonely even though she is surrounded by beautiful things. At night she dreams of children her own size visiting her, and "sometimes the girl in the castle eve...
I'm not sure what to think of this. I definitely liked the illustrations, which were fuzzy around the edges like a dream and filled with fantastic images. There really wasn't a plot; it seemed to be more of an attempt by the author to create a story within a story or a book within a book, to make the reader feel like they're part of the story. It didn't quite work for me. I can see that it might appeal to children who like fantasy and fairy tales.
