Mattimeo - Brian Jacques

The Ribbajack: And Other Curious Yarns - Brian Jacques

Two gargantuan, clawlike hands… Huge hairy arms with octopi suckers… A single bloodshot eye… He had done it…the Ribbajack was alive! Brian Jacques has assembled a superb collection of six short stories in the The Ribbajack & Other Curious Yarns. This is a collection worthy of the twisted minds of children s authors Lewis Carroll and Roald Dahl if they had ever got together to write horror and suspense stories. Indeed, The Ribbajack pays obvious homage to Carroll s Jabberwocky. The monstrous "Ribbajack", product of a twisted child s making, is the stuff of nightmares and as frightening as any bogeyman my teenage son could conjure. The Ribbajack is ...

Brian Jacques in general

Harry Potter series, victory is usually shown to have a price, and on many occasions you are in suspense wondering who’s life will be laid down to free the land. Jacques, in a similar fashion to J.K Rowling also throws in some good plot twists that keep you gripped to the book and eager to read on. Characters often go questing, usually from the abbey in a bid to rescue a comrade or to recover a lost important item. Jacques also uses puzzles well as a device, weaving them into the plot as an important mystery that the characters must solve in order to discover a secret find or important information. Through plays on words and riddles, Jacques draws the reader deeper ...

Brian Jacques in general

I just bought myself a book because it was about Redwall, a mysterious place written about by Brian Jacques. I wouldn't classify the books as children's books as they would be too hard going for the average kid, they might be a good book to read to a child and they did make an excellent cartoon out of them. Be that as it may I've been collecting books from the Redwall series for some time now and I found this book which is more like a folder and it was being sold quite cheap so I bought it for myself. Basically it contained a 3d model of the Redwall Abbey made from several pieces of thin card and a new short story. The short story isn't really worth ...