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Title: Me, All Alone, at the End of the World
Author: M. T. Anderson
Narrator: Norm Lee
Format: Unabridged
Length: 18 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-05-13
Publisher: Recorded Books
Genres: Kids, Ages 5-7
Publisher's Summary:
National Book Award Finalist M. T. Anderson is an acclaimed author of childrens books. This Junior Library Guild Selection is his poignant praise of peaceful independence. At the edge of a lofty cliff lives a young lad in his rough-hewn shack. He loves the simple pleasures of book reading, fossil finding, and treasure hunting. He enjoys the wind whistling through the bristly pines and the sun setting over the vast horizon. And then a bold dreamer promises him nonstop fun and friends galore with the End of the World Inn and Amusement Park.
Members Reviews:
Magical Family Favorite
My husband and I and our two year old son love this book; we first borrowed it from the library and had to get our own copy. The illustrations are full of detail and little surprises, but not so detailed that my son is uninterested, rather poring over the pages on his own. He also sits still for reading it aloud despite the length. The language has a subtle rhythm, a bit hypnotic, making it easy to read aloud. The reader is naturally pulled along as the pace of the story increases and then slows with the spacious exhalation at the end.
The story itself is deeply satisfying. While it may be read as a caution against commercialism and a frantic "go go go" life, I think it is more an example of balance and "knowing thyself". The boy is happy in his solitary life, but does feel the lure of companionship and enjoys new experiences with his friends. When he is burned out and returns to simple solitude he writes letters to his friends and plans to visit them "someday". We can dive into the world, whirling with new things, experiences, ideas, people, and then also give our true selves room to expand.
"There is a luxury in being quiet in the heart of chaos" Virginia Woolf
I love reading it to my
Precious book! I love reading it to my grandchildren
Great and thoughtful read aloud for older kids too.
This is one of those picture books that is really meant for older kids. It's thoughtful and funny and the illustrations are tremendously detailed and suit the book's quirkiness perfectly. It is really kind of a morality tale--about how we always want more and more and more and are never satisfied with what we have. As well as that plot, the beautiful natural place where the young boy lives at the end of the world is destroyed by the developer who just keeps building and building and building more and more and more. It's a bit lengthy for young kids, but oh, how they need to hear it. I've read it out loud to second through sixth graders; it's the kind of book that's a great discussion starter for all ages. And the illustrations really draw you in. Beautifully done.
Five Stars
This book is wonderful and I love the illustrations!
To Thine Ownself Be True
The narrator of ME, ALL ALONE, AT THE END OF THE WORLD is a boy who lives by himself at the edge of a cliff "at the end of the world." Although he has no friends and is alone, he is quite content. Then one day a stranger appears. His name is Constantine Shimmer and he can't believe the boy is alone and that he doesn't really do anything for fun. "I think things are going to change around here," Shimmer says. And boy, do they ever. Shimmer turns the quiet paradise at the end of the boy into the most exciting place in the world; a place where there's so much fun, there isn't time to think. At first, the boy gets caught up in everything.
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Title: Me, All Alone, at the End of the World
Author: M. T. Anderson
Narrator: Norm Lee
Format: Unabridged
Length: 18 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-05-13
Publisher: Recorded Books
Genres: Kids, Ages 5-7
Publisher's Summary:
National Book Award Finalist M. T. Anderson is an acclaimed author of childrens books. This Junior Library Guild Selection is his poignant praise of peaceful independence. At the edge of a lofty cliff lives a young lad in his rough-hewn shack. He loves the simple pleasures of book reading, fossil finding, and treasure hunting. He enjoys the wind whistling through the bristly pines and the sun setting over the vast horizon. And then a bold dreamer promises him nonstop fun and friends galore with the End of the World Inn and Amusement Park.
Members Reviews:
Magical Family Favorite
My husband and I and our two year old son love this book; we first borrowed it from the library and had to get our own copy. The illustrations are full of detail and little surprises, but not so detailed that my son is uninterested, rather poring over the pages on his own. He also sits still for reading it aloud despite the length. The language has a subtle rhythm, a bit hypnotic, making it easy to read aloud. The reader is naturally pulled along as the pace of the story increases and then slows with the spacious exhalation at the end.
The story itself is deeply satisfying. While it may be read as a caution against commercialism and a frantic "go go go" life, I think it is more an example of balance and "knowing thyself". The boy is happy in his solitary life, but does feel the lure of companionship and enjoys new experiences with his friends. When he is burned out and returns to simple solitude he writes letters to his friends and plans to visit them "someday". We can dive into the world, whirling with new things, experiences, ideas, people, and then also give our true selves room to expand.
"There is a luxury in being quiet in the heart of chaos" Virginia Woolf
I love reading it to my
Precious book! I love reading it to my grandchildren
Great and thoughtful read aloud for older kids too.
This is one of those picture books that is really meant for older kids. It's thoughtful and funny and the illustrations are tremendously detailed and suit the book's quirkiness perfectly. It is really kind of a morality tale--about how we always want more and more and more and are never satisfied with what we have. As well as that plot, the beautiful natural place where the young boy lives at the end of the world is destroyed by the developer who just keeps building and building and building more and more and more. It's a bit lengthy for young kids, but oh, how they need to hear it. I've read it out loud to second through sixth graders; it's the kind of book that's a great discussion starter for all ages. And the illustrations really draw you in. Beautifully done.
Five Stars
This book is wonderful and I love the illustrations!
To Thine Ownself Be True
The narrator of ME, ALL ALONE, AT THE END OF THE WORLD is a boy who lives by himself at the edge of a cliff "at the end of the world." Although he has no friends and is alone, he is quite content. Then one day a stranger appears. His name is Constantine Shimmer and he can't believe the boy is alone and that he doesn't really do anything for fun. "I think things are going to change around here," Shimmer says. And boy, do they ever. Shimmer turns the quiet paradise at the end of the boy into the most exciting place in the world; a place where there's so much fun, there isn't time to think. At first, the boy gets caught up in everything.