Review: Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow by Jessica Day George
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(5 votes, average: 4.40 out of 5)
Loading ...| Title: | Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow |
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| Author: | George, Jessica Day |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Children's Books |
| Pages: | 336 |
Jessica Day George has once again taken a beloved and not so over told fairy tale and fleshed out the details to give us a full feature story with all the great elements needed to make one wish to read the tale. Lass (or Pika) is unloved by her mother and is refused a name. Everyone in the village knows an unnamed child is bound to be claimed at some point by the trolls, so Pika’s father tries to appease the beasts by laying out the families precious food and sweets for the troll’s as a way to keep his Pika.
Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow takes through Pika’s young life and tells us the secret story of the Ice Castle and the Polar Bear Prince who inhabits it.
Lass is given the chance to go live in a castle with the bear for a set amount of time, her family will be well taken care of and things will be much easier on the. The Mother who never cared for her sends her off with the bear as her father is left to worry about his Lass.
Now the twists and turns of the book start, this tale is fairy tale standard, dark turns and sunny happy outcomes are marred by the morals of the story. If you love a good fairy tale and one longer and more fleshed out than most you will enjoy this book immensely as I have.
By: Sheila Deeth
Sounds really intriguing. Thanks.
By: Sarah
I really enjoyed this one too. This was my first introduction to this fairy tale too. There are a couple other books about this same fairy tale-East by Edith Pattou (which I haven’t read, but heard great things) and the upcoming Ice by Sarah Beth Durst. I think I’m going to check both out to see how they compare.
By: J.T. Oldfield
What fairy tale is this a take on? Is it the Beauty and the Beast?
By: Laura/BookingIt
I stopped by to let you know I’m passing an award on to you– see http://imbookingit.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/my-first-blog-award/
By: Amber
I love the cover to this book. I don’t think I’ve come across this fairy tale before – it doesn’t sound like one of the Grimm tales and those are the ones I’m most familiar.
By: Katie
I have read East– it’s excellent– and I want to read this but it’s not on my nook and I couldn’t find it at Borders or Barnes and Noble. I did read Princess of the Midnight Ball, a retelling of The Twelve Dancing Princesses, by the same author, and I was immediately sucked in. She has great talent and really got me interested in retellings of fairy tales. I guess it’s another phase. I had a vampire phase that lasted quite a while, a brief fairy phase, and now it’s on to fairy tales!