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Title: William S. and the Great Escape
Author: Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Narrator: James Colby
Format: Unabridged
Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
Language: English
Release date: 12-02-09
Publisher: Recorded Books
Genres: Kids, Fiction
Publisher's Summary:
Edgar nominee Zilpha Keatley Snyder is a three-time Newbery Honor winner, and her book The Unseen was named as both a School Library Journal Best Book and Parents' Choice Silver Honor Winner. In William S. and the Great Escape, Snyder pens a middle-grade adventure sure to be ranked with her very best.
©2009 Zilpha Keatley Snyder; (P)2009 Recorded Books, LLC
Members Reviews:
Good book
I enjoyed this story, but I felt that the ending was a let-down. The story was fast moving and kept my interest, but it appeared that the author either got tired of writing it, was running late for a deadline, or didn't really know how to end it, so used a quick summary of the ending to just finish it off. Whatever the problem was, it definitely lacked the quality of writing that was in the main part of the story. I have debated about whether to give this book a 3 or a 4 star rating. I decided on the 3 star because the way the story ended was a major detraction to me.
... Keatley Snyder that I have read I have really liked and this one was no exception
Every book by Zilpha Keatley Snyder that I have read I have really liked and this one was no exception. Two middle grade siblings pack up their two younger siblings and run away from their abusive father, stepmother and older siblings. They hope to find their dead mother's sister and they do. She takes them in with open arms. Except the abusive father shows up......... Great story, couldn't put it down, cried my eyes out, just loved it.
William s and the great escape
It was good but I didn't like the ending. It had a great storyline and the author is an AMAZING writer
Great story. Be you a kid or adult you ...
Great story . Be you a kid or adult you will enjoy it
Rather dull
The premise for William S. and the Great Escape sounded really good. However, I felt that the book simply didn't deliver on the premise. I wanted to read it because the author had won so many awards, so I was surprised to find this book a letdown. It makes me wonder if this was perhaps and "off" book for her.
I found it difficult to really connect with the characters. They didn't seem flesh and blood to me, so there was never that magical reading moment where I forgot that they were creations on a page. I think the major problem with William was that he was defined too much by his role as Ariel in The Tempest. I would also have liked some more background on William and his sisters. I wasn't looking for a graphic depiction of the abuse and neglect that they'd suffered, but it seemed like their experience growing up as Baggetts was mentioned in a sort of off-hand manner. As a reader, I connected with a character like Harry Potter because I saw and experienced what he was experiencing. This didn't happen with the Baggett children.
As ardent a lover of Shakespeare as I am, I didn't enjoy the incorporation of his works. I thought the middle section of the book was little more than a retelling of The Tempest. I was anxious for the action of the Baggetts to continue to unfold, and so I felt as though the scenes with William reenacting his role as Ariel were disruptive to the overall narrative flow. Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine that I would say a novel contained too much Shakespeare--this one did.
Lastly, I did not like the resolution of the novel.
