David and the Phoenix

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Summary: Move over Harry Potter
Review: I read this book when I was 9 years old....I am now 49...Like so many people on this list I thought I was alone in my ardor for this magical story. I was also suprised to find some similar threads in the Harry Potter books...the philosophers stone..the phoenix and the cast of mythological characters...who is this Ormondroyd?

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Summary: One of the best children's books because adults love it too!
Review: My husband made me read this, when he re-discovered his copy on his parents' bookshelf. Thereafter, I read it to every third grade class I taught for 15 years, and my husband, David, read it to our two boys. My classes did drawings of the action while the characters came to life in their minds. Wonderful! The fantasy is embellished with wonderful drama, emotion, and vocabulary to enrich one's life. I still think about the Griffens and Griffons sometimes, and frequently miss the antics of the ever-loveable Phoenix.

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Summary: A lasting memory from childhood
Review: Well it's a very consistent summary to say the book left a great memory for a large number of special people. It would be great if the book came back into print. Does anyone know what the original print looked like? I've read descriptions about a color version. Mine is dated Edition, 1958. A yellow hardback with a black icon of the Phoenix on the front and black/white sketches.

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Summary: A gem of fantasy, for children and adults alike
Review: I'm so =glad= to see that others have read and loved this book as I have! My parents subscribed to the WRBC for many years, and that is how I first met David and his beautifully eccentric feathered friend, when I was about 8 or 9 (I'm 47 now). The family copy disappeared, and I was frantic to find another. Finally I spotted it in a restaurant, of all places, in the room they called The Library, and they let me keep it. This is an incredible little story, unpretentious but delightful, on one level an adventure children will love and one another a parable about change and moving on. I know it was out in paperback a few years ago (with a hideous cover), and I really wish someone would reprint it so I could give it to my goddaughter and my grandnieces and ... every child I can think of!

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Summary: --a special adventure full of lessons for life.
Review: --David & the Phoenix did not enter my realm of awareness till I was 19 & checking a bunch of discards for the local public library. I couldn't put it down, & as it was a discard, I was permitted to take it! It's a treasure, & I'd always ask people if they knew it, & they'd say "no." --now to find so many who love the book too is a gift in itself.

--I'd buy copies for everybody I know if it gets reprinted! Edward Ormondroyd has to be someone very special to have imagined the relationship between David & the Phoenix.

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Summary: UNFORGETTABLE
Review: I cannot believe how many people love this story as much as I do. I had tears in my eyes as I read everyone's reaction..I've never forgotten it since reading it in the 5th grade (I am 37 now). I never put much effort into looking for it, but now wish I had, because just look at all the folks who want a copy..and wouldn't you know it's out of print. How can we get this book back in print? This story has haunted me all my life. I need a copy to treasure.

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Summary: My Favorite Book Too!
Review: What a surprise to see how many people loved this book still. I have been looking and looking for a copy- my first is long gone. I hope Amazon can find me a copy- they should reprint it!

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Summary: This story is a life experience in itself.
Review: David and the Phoenix is a wonderful story that will enchant you all of your life! It gave me my passion for reading and taught me how to dream. I was about 9 when I first read my stepfathers copy and I will never forget how David found and befriended the phoenix, bringing him cookies and going on magnificent adventures to mythical lands and helping him with the ingredients for the pyre, oh how my heart wrenched as I learned of the birds destiny! I cried and got angry but in the end I was grateful just to have known David and the Phoenix.

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Summary: This story is a powerful metaphor about change.
Review: This story was read to me when I was 9 (I am 33 now) and it stays with me when I am struggling through some kind of painful change. The story of the pheonix rising from the ashes after "death" is a powerful and important methaphor for change that inspires faith that 24 years later sees me through those hard and necessary changes.

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Summary: A tale from the time before couch potatoes
Review: I can't believe this book is still talked about! Like so many others who have reviewed it, I got this book in the 1950s (from the Weekly Reader Book Club) and it was one of my favorites. "The Pink Motel" and "Follow My Leader" also were from that period and they too seem to be alive and well, but now in paperback. I still have these three books and several others from the WRBC and the Young America Book Club that I treasure to this day.

I re-read "David and the Phoenix" about 3 years ago when I found it in a box of books packed away for ... what, posterity? The story is just as powerful now as it was then--perhaps more so. David's love for this mythical creature come to life is so strong, so pure! I cried like I did 40 years ago when...well, that would be telling.

But you know what I liked best about that book? I remember dreaming of flying like David on the back of the mighty Phoenix. Sigh....