It's been many, many years since I first read this series. It was one of my favorites as a child, so I just recently bought the boxed set to work my way through it again.Over Sea, Under Stone is, if I recall correctly, not really part of the main series, being more of an introduction to the war betw...
Jane, Simon and Barney are on holiday with their parents in Cornwall. They are staying in the Grey house and one day, while exploring in the attic they found a very old map. They think it must be to some sort of treasure.The Drew children soon find out that the map is much more important than they t...
And thus begins the Great Childhood Novel Reread of 2011. Alas that Over Sea, Under Stone does not hold up as well as I'd like. It was never my favorite of the Dark is Rising sequence, but I did love me some Jane Drew back when I was her age. Turns out, fifteen years down the line, that the Drews ar...
Tolkiens meets Blyton. That's how I feel about this book. Thankfully the villains were a tiny bit more subtle than in Blyton's book and the children slightly less goody-goody. Still a bit too reassuring for children where they know they can always count on the adult, unlike The Complete Wreck (The U...
Lovely setting, could feel Wales, but neither the story nor the characters actually interested me. I tried and tried, very hard, to like them or be excited or even remotely interested in the story but I was terribly bored.But let not that put you off of the series! Over Sea, Under Stone is the odd o...
work mp3Dramatised in 4 parts by David Calcuttwith Ronald Pickup, Naomi Kerbel and Ben GutteridgeBroadcast 20th Aug to 10th Sep 1995, Children's BBC Radio 4Blurb - When the age old legend of King Arthur's battle for Good against the forces of Evil springs into life again in modern Cornwall, the thre...
Fantasy written for children that I found quite engaging as an adult reader. Cooper plays with Arthuriana and other British and Celtic legends, and themes of light/dark, good/evil and destiny that really scratched my itch as a fantasy reader. I found this series much more interesting than Harry Pott...
This was good. Solid adventure, pretty scary/exciting in places. But the language is very florid, overly descriptive for my tastes, so it felt like her voice wasn't keeping pace with the story. In every chapter I kept flipping ahead to find out what she was leading up to, then I would go back, bette...
Ostensibly the first book in the Dark is Rising series, but I read it after I'd already been introduced to Will Stanton. It's my least favorite of the series and I like the Drew siblings the least of all the characters in the series, but it's still far and away better than all other fantasy.
This book is so much better by itself as opposed to being a park of 'The Dark is Rising' sequence. I read this many, many times growing up, conservatively, perhaps six times before I picked up 'The Dark is Rising'. 'Over Sea, Under Stone' was a brilliant, dark successor to books like E. Nesbit's 'Th...
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