Breadcrumbs
Anne Ursu, Erin McGuire,Hardcover, English-language edition,Pub by HarperCollins Publishers on 09-27-2011
Anne Ursu, Erin McGuire,Hardcover, English-language edition,Pub by HarperCollins Publishers on 09-27-2011
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Format: Textbook
ASIN: 9780062015051
Publish date: 27-09-2011
Publisher: HarperCollins
Edition language: English
I wanted to like this more than I did for a few reasons. I loved the author's Chronus Chronicles series, and I am absolutely crazy about the fairy tale, "The Snow Queen." Another wonderful aspect of this novel is that the main character, Hazel, is a young girl who is Indian in ethnicity (from the co...
That was an adorable, clever, and delightfully developed fairytale retelling. It's hard to live up to a storyteller like Hans Christian Andersen, but Anne Ursu manages to pull off a modern Snow Queen story with aplomb.
I was confused as to the audience this book is geared towards as the cover lent itself to be young children,the players in the book were fifth graders and the story had an evil queen who was not so evil. The book was not scary and the message had to do with friendship and the book was rather slow so...
This book was a cute Middle Grade read, but not one of my favorites. It was fun and had some really good parts, I just don’t think it was the best fit for me.The story itself was pretty good. It followed the basic plot outlines left by Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen, but added many of it’s...
Anne Ursu's Breadcrumbs wasn't quite what I was expecting. For some unknown reason, I had assumed that the novel would immediately launch into something at least vaguely recognizable as "The Snow Queen," but that wasn't the case. In retrospect, this makes sense and gives Breadcrumbs a modern, semi-b...
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