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    <body><![CDATA[I came across this book looking for something to get my niece Hailey for her birthday. The story is reminiscent of Mark Dunn's <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16200.Ella_Minnow_Pea_A_Novel_in_Letters" title="Ella Minnow Pea  A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn">Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters</a>, which also explores issues of hope, love, valor and freedom. Pirates invade the island of Ooroo looking for lost treasure. Their leader,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51328138">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sort of like OULIPO for kids.  Or would it just be a kind of Perec for kids?  Or maybe just a warning to kids to stay away from people who discriminate against particular vowels, and try to rid the world (or the text) of them.  <br/><br/>Pirates attack a small island.  When they find no treasures ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67606937">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A great read-aloud; this was my first Thurber book, so the rhythm of his metre was a delightful surprise. <br/><br/>The story is about a ship captain who follows a map and arrives on an island in search of a treasure. When his crew searches the village and the surrounding area thoroughly but finds...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44771669">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>I like <em>The Wonderful O</em> as much now as I did when I first read it at age 8. If you haven't come across it, imagine that George Orwell and Lewis Carroll got drunk one night and decided to collaborate on a short children's book. No description will do it justice.<br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Published in 1957.<br/><br/>Pirates torment an island's inhabitants to get the details of hidden jewels from them. One main torment is to ban all use of the letter O.<br/>Much of the story is taken up with a life without O: shoes become shes; food must become meal, but then how do you distinguish...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65848066">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[imagine a wrld withut the letter . a wrld withut chicken ndle sup r the mn (well...). where peple can eat ham but nt prk. it is very cmplicated, and incnsistent in its legislatin. but still pretty fun, and its a kids bk, s we can ignre the little  hiccups in lgic. and, n, its nt written withut the l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70757567">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Clever short story about a villain seeking treasure in a kingdom.  The villain lost his mother when she got stuck in a boat's porthole and since then, he has a hatred for the letter 'O'.  He bans everything that contains the letter, so that music is limited to zithers, cymbals, and guitars since hor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65093189">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a word lover's book.  It is inventive and entertaining read that also touches on major topics such as censorship, oppression and dictatorship.  It is also a fantasy on how the world of literature and history saves the island people.  I loved it.  I would caution against giving it to young ch...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45548515">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Neat!  It seems a bit slight next to The 13 Clocks, but I really enjoyed Thurber's rhythmic prose and knack for integrating disconcerting notes in his genial storytelling ethic.  Also, this was obviously a thoughtful meditation on language, if cloaked in nonsense, whimsy, and fairytale.  I'd really ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66506583">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[After a very promising beginning this book quickly devolves into tedium. The interest in wordplay that is evident in Thurber's other children's books becomes, here, unrelentlessly self-indulgent.  If I'd read this first, I doubt I would have gone on to discover <em>The 13 Clocks</em>, his masterpiece of juve...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72627342">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A very short tale about an island that is invaded by pirates looking for treasure.  They can't find treasure so they remove everything with an &quot;O&quot; in it because the captain hates words with &quot;O&quot;s.  At the end I didn't wish I had the time I spent reading back, but on the whole I wa...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[????????????????????????????<br/>There really is no way to describe this odd little masterpiece. If you love words and wordplay, the taste of language and the absurdity of language, the fruits and frivolity of intellect, then by all means, read it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What a great surprise this little book turned out to be.  I loved the rhythm and the simpleness of it, but  you also start to realize how powerful that little letter O is.  And I wonder how Thurber decided to use O, because it was perfect.  It's in the simplest words, and in some of the most powerfu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33619395">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Thurber is a master of the English language.  Pirates invade a peaceful island and banish all of the words and items that contain the letter O.  It is a clever story, that seems to contain every word I've ever heard.  It made the kids and I giggle.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[it is a kids book, despite the title.  lots of clever word play, twice as long as it needs to be, but v. cute.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Cute.  It's pretty much &quot;How the Grinch Stole Christmas,&quot; except the grinch is a pirate who stole the letter O from a small town.  It rhymes.  It reminds readers of the importance of love, hope, valor and (I won't give away the ending) the most important O word of all, which saves the love...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1775727">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What a splendid book!  It must have taken this author ages to think up all the words that have the letter &quot;O&quot; in them!  It's a delightful book, and quite humorous too.  I would encourage anyone to read it.   =.=]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you love word games, clever writing, literary cadence, The Phantom Tollbooth, and dry wit, then this is a fun little book to read.  If you dont like these things, well, youll still probably like it.  Or maybe you wont.  ]]></body>
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