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Title: Bartlett and the Ice Voyage
Author: Odo Hirsch
Narrator: Roger Cardwell
Format: Unabridged
Length: 3 hrs and 53 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-19-14
Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
Genres: Kids, Ages 8-10
Publisher's Summary:
A young Queen is sent gifts from her seven kingdoms around the world. She receives everything imaginable, from giraffes, monkeys and flamingos, to exotic fruits but the fruit she desires most has never survived the long journey. Frustrated, she orders Bartlett the Explorer across the world to collect the fragile melidrop fruit and bring it back to court.
Join the inventive, irreverent Bartlett on his rollicking adventure from the hottest to the coldest countries in the world as he struggles to complete the task. Will the Queen have patience enough to keep her side of the bargain?
Members Reviews:
Awesome adventure story for kids
This is a marvelous adventure story for children. A spoiled Queen demands the impossible -- she wants to taste a melidrop, an amazing fruit that grows far away. No one can bring her one, because the fruit spoils after only a day. Gallant nobles have tried and failed to bring her one, and with each failure, the Queen's irritation grows. Finally, she commands the services of Bartlett the explorer, who agrees to try.
He gives her an honest assessmant -- this project probably will not succeed, and he will need some time. (He will also need inventiveness, perseverance, and desperation!) He tells her it may take 7 months! The queen agrees, and Bartlett leaves.
He finds the fruit, but can he get it to the Queen?
This is a wonderful story to draw up self-confidence and forthrightness in your child, particularly your son. There is no "bad guy" per se, apart from a few annoying people at court. Time is the antagonist. Time, and distance, and the warmth of the sun.
I'm a parent and a grown-up, and I enjoyed the story. I wish more fiction for boys could be written this way.
This book is a fun and whimsical story
This book is a fun and whimsical story, sure to enthrall and enchant. Beyond that, it also subtly teaches values that everyone benefits from, such as patience and perseverance, without including a traumatic event or series of events, like most of the well-known and award-winning books do these days.
Bartlett's Ice Voyage Adventure
In the novel Bartlett and the Ice Voyage, a very powerful queen is not satisfied with the taste of the fruit she is provided with, and wants to taste a melidrop, a rare and delicious fruit that spoils the day it is picked. The queen asks one of her most trusted advisors what she should do. The advisor recommends a certain explorer named Bartlett to retrieve a melidrop from across the ocean. The queen finds it hard to believe that someone could bring it on a nine-week voyage across the sea without spoiling. Bartlett and his partner, Jacques le Grand, ponder how they could get a melidrop back to the queen without spoiling. They go on a long trip across the sea to the country where melidrops grow most abundantly. They ask the owners of a melidrop field what they should do. One of them, a mere boy, offers to help them with this seemingly impossible task. His family offers to give them shelter, food, and water for a night while they recuperate. Then, while Bartlett is thinking about how cold the water is, his train of thought triggers an idea. He goes to the harbor and looks for a captain who is willing to take his ship into the frigid waters of the arctic sea. They find one captain who agrees to take them up to the Arctic Ocean. They want to find an iceberg large enough to preserve a melidrop for nine weeks on the voyage back to the queen's palace.