

The Real Boy
Author: Anne Ursu
Narrator: Chris Sorensen
Unabridged: 8 hr 40 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Walden Pond Press
Published: 09/24/2013
Categories: Children's Fiction, Children's Social Themes, Fairy Tales
Author: Anne Ursu
Narrator: Chris Sorensen
Unabridged: 8 hr 40 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Walden Pond Press
Published: 09/24/2013
Categories: Children's Fiction, Children's Social Themes, Fairy Tales
Anne Ursu is the author of the acclaimed novels The Troubled Girls of Dragomir Academy, The Lost Girl, Breadcrumbs, and The Real Boy, which was longlisted for the National Book Award. The recipient of a McKnight Fellowship Award in Children’s Literature, Anne lives in Minneapolis with her family and an ever-growing number of cats.
Moments of great prose, and a fabulous finish that touched everything together into a very topical allegory with themes about the greed of the wealthy, and the potential to lose humanity through the pursuit of perfection. With that acknowledged, I have a lot of misgivings about this book. These misg......more
A lovely, lyrical tale, alternately heart-warming and heart-rending, this book tackles some deep and thorny issues (autism, abuse, overconsumption, hedonism and exploitation of the poor by the rich among them) without bogging down or losing the fantasy-mystery plot. There's some beautiful language h......more
My two-year-old is dealing with the concept of personhood. Lately she's taken to proclaiming proudly "I'm a person!" when she has successfully mastered something. By the same token, failure to accomplish even the most mundane task is met with a dejected, "I'm not a person". This notion of personhood......more