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May 31, 2011
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Stop.....the.....presses! A thoughtful, intelligent children's book?...Yeppers, it's true...behold...
...The Ice Dragon.
That wascally wabbit, George R. R. Martin, has done it yet again! He's written an elegant, pulchritudinous children’s/YA novella that spins a captivating tale that has the added virtue of respecting the brain matter of its readers. Well done, Ser Martin, well done...
...okay, you've been dipped in glory and praisified...now get yon self back to thy scribing of the next SOIAF ...more
...The Ice Dragon.
That wascally wabbit, George R. R. Martin, has done it yet again! He's written an elegant, pulchritudinous children’s/YA novella that spins a captivating tale that has the added virtue of respecting the brain matter of its readers. Well done, Ser Martin, well done...
...okay, you've been dipped in glory and praisified...now get yon self back to thy scribing of the next SOIAF ...more
Picked this up at Books-a-Million for $5 in the clearance bin, started reading it to my girls as a bedtime story. Two chapters in, it successfully put the 4-year-old asleep and kept the 6-year-old's attention.
Having finished it, the story kept their interest and every night they wanted me to read it to them, but I think a lot of it went over their heads and, for that matter, it had some pretty dark material for kids my daughters' ages. There's a fair bit of death here, from the "off-screen" dea ...more
Having finished it, the story kept their interest and every night they wanted me to read it to them, but I think a lot of it went over their heads and, for that matter, it had some pretty dark material for kids my daughters' ages. There's a fair bit of death here, from the "off-screen" dea ...more
I decided to read this book because I'm a big fan of George R. R. Martin, and was curious what a children't book written by him would be like (since his regular novels are very adult). The story was interesting enough, but I missed some of the heft and grit his adult novels have (which was understandably absent from this book). I couldn't quite figure out, also, how the main character got 'winter' in her in the first place...maybe I didn't read carefully enough, or maybe it wasn't explicit. Any
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Reading this little volume was interesting, as I couldn't shake the feeling that I was re-reading it. I know I've never read this book before, but it's possible that GRRM has published it separately as a short story elsewhere, because the entire book was as if I'd read it previously.
Others have praised this as a "non-pandering" children's book, but to me it seemed pretty pedestrian. It's a fairy tale in the tradition of Hans Christian Andersen (not to mention Martin himself), in that there is a ...more
Others have praised this as a "non-pandering" children's book, but to me it seemed pretty pedestrian. It's a fairy tale in the tradition of Hans Christian Andersen (not to mention Martin himself), in that there is a ...more
I loved this little short story and now I want to know if we will see the appearance of ice dragons in the bigger Songs of Ice and Fire series.
Being a "winter child" myself, I was a little disappointed in the ending, but all's good for a children's book. :)
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