Albion's Dream

By Roger Norman

Book Overview

Edward Yeoman encuentra un antiguo juego de mesa escondido detr s de un librero. el sue o de Albi n se titula, y no se parece a ninguno que haya visto antes. Lo juega en la escuela con su primo, y... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385305338
• ISBN13: 9780385305334
• Release Date: August 1992
• Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
• Length: 209 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 1.0" x 5.8"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

One of my favorite books, very nostalgic

I read Albion's Dream in 7th or 8th grade. It was one of those books hidden away in the corner of the school library that nobody ever read. Another boy happened to read it and told me I should read it. He wasn't the kind of person I normally listened to, but I found it, looked at the cover and decided to give it a chance. From the start, the story takes on a dream like quality for me. Perhaps it is because I have always been entranced by well written accounts of life in the British Isles. Norman does a very nice job of giving us a taste of that life. It also takes little time to realize there is something more to this story, and to get drawn into a sort of young adult thriller. The draw of this story to me, is much the same as it was when I read (and looked at) Jumanji. The difference is, where Allsburg captures your mind with ideas and brilliant art, Norman captures it with ideas, mental images, and feelings. The story gets much deeper as the protagonist meets more and more people who are connected with the game he found. He uncovers some of the game's past and finds that it is connected with not only the people around him but also the geography. In a figurative (and sometimes literal) battle against the book's (and the game's) antagonists, we finally realize what Albion's Dream is. The ending does get rather quick compared to the rest of the story, but it is not an overly abrubt ending and I found it to be an adequate conclusion to a very well written story. I never could find this book after leaving middle school, but I mentioned it to my wife once and she found a very nice used copy online and bought it for me. I have since read it twice and still find it to be a very nice read, especially on rainy, dreary days.

buy it now

this has been one of my favorite books since i first found it in the town library when I was ten. yes, that was only six years ago, but it still blows me away every time that I read it. It's a hard book to describe because the writing, not style-wise, but appreciation wise, is similar to A.A. Milne in the sense that kids can easily understand it, but those looking for crafted beauty in the words find it. Here's a sample: "It took me a long journey, two thousand miles, to learn to dig a post hole and to hoe a long row, to plant a tree, to kill a chicken and to build a stone wall, but the soil here is not like Wessex soils, the trees are stunted, the rivers run dry and the hillsides are clad in thick, coarse scrub covering the ancient conformations."

Vaguely remembered dream scapes

I only vaguely remember this book, from reading it just after it had come out. Yet to meet anyone who has read it who wasn't intrigued. The book has a fascinating, dream-like quality, and only a weak, confusing ending mars a superbly written "good-and-evil" YA novel.