The Castle Corona

by Sharon Creech

Book Overview

Long ago and far away . . . There was a castle. But not just any castle. This was the grand and glittering Castle Corona. And in this castle lived a family. But not just any family. This was the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060846216
• ISBN13: 9780060846213
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 1.4" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Why Castle Corona

Say your looking for a book. A good book. Why don't you check out Castle Corona? Castle Corona is a good book if you like mid evil times. You could like the beautiful queens and princesses or the kings, knights and duels. Don't sit there being a lazy couch potato. Get Castle Corona. It will blow your mind!

Get off the couch and read this book!

I think that castle corona is a great book. In the beginning lot of questions come up but near the middle and end it all ties together. It is a unpredictable book and you never know what will happen next.Since it takes place in medieval times, it is about kings, queens and peasants. overall it is a great book and everyone should read it.

Great for Kids

My 7 and 3 year olds enjoyed this immensely. There may be holes in the plot and its unfolding, but it has a great quality of understanding in its characters and we found it to be a perfect chapter book for bedtime reading.

A really Splendid Fairy Tale

This book was recommended to me by a 10 year old. She told me the book was beautiful, the story was great and she read it in one sitting. I'm inclined to read anything a young person recomends to me. Pia and Enzio find a pouch in the woods one day, it is dropped by a thief. Pia and Enzio work for a horrid master and dream of being free and cared for like the royal family. The pouch and its mysterious belongings intertwines with the tale that is happening within the castle. I suppose the revelation was not as climatic as I was expecting. However, the story is delightful and once I remembered it enough it was fun to abbreviate and tell to my son before bed. The book is beautiful, the pages are "illuminated" a sort of old fashioned gold scrolling on the pages, pictures amid the chapters, it looks like an old fariy tale you plucked out of a very old library. I could see why my little reader recommended it to me. I did ask her about it again after I finished, and she said she supposed the illustrations of the book made her feel transported into the story. She liked the book because she felt like she was in the book. So while some of us grownup readers may have felt so so about the revelation, one girl I know loved it because she felt she became Pia, and I think this book was written for her and her friends more than for the likes of me.

beautiful tale

A wonderful, whimsical, wise and creative story, that is filled with warmth. It is like an updated fairytale without loosing the charm. It will make perfect reading at night for storytime or to read on one's own. The pictures are wonderful, and they are like subtitles to the chapters, telling you whom the chapter will focus on. It gave me a nice, warm fuzzy feeling and left me with a smile, not something many childrens books do these days anymore. Cannot wait to read it to my grandchildren! Highly recommended.