Engraved in Stone

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Summary: a lyrical tale
Review: Engraved In Stone is a cleverly plotted romantic adventure. Whether your 12 year old reads it to him/herself or you read it to your 6 year old, your child will love this book. While enthralled in this tale, your child will, unknowingly, also be expanding his/her vocabulary and learning about life and love.

Make this your next gift to a child you love.

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Summary: The Best Book EVER
Review: I think this is one of the best books ever!!! I read the whole book in 3 days I loved it so much! When I read it I felt like I was in Readonia[if you read this great book you'll find out what I mean.] This author uses great vocabulary and discription. I find that anyone with an imagenation and a hankern' for a good book will love it!!

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Summary: A cute book for the younger set?
Review: Okay, so it?s pretty predictable. And the storyline is repetitive quite a bit. However, this is just something about the story of Prince Edward and Princess Elizabeth who take a journey to visit the Engraver to break a marriage contract that makes you want to read on. It might be the adorable drawings. It might be wondering what strange place they stumble across next. Whatever it is, it?s a cute, quick read that had morals at the very center.

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Summary: Engraved in Stone ............ Molly's Reviews
Review: On the pages of Engraved in Stone Writer Coleman offers an agreeable read written in whimsical style, filled with singular characters, engaging arenas, interesting dialog and just plain fun. Coleman's unique narrative is fast paced, peopled with quirky characters, plays on words and enjoyable settings. Rigorous, formidable tasks, peril and conflict abound on every hand in this fairy tale style fantasy. Coleman adroitly handles each hazard with deft wit. Illustrator Armand's unconventional sketches scattered throughout the work will have enormous appeal to the readers while the eloquent vocabulary offers a challenge to younger and older readers in the target audience alike. Those in the 12-14 year old set will enjoy having big words to astound their friends, the younger kids in the 9-11 group will have great fun playing with the words of mediaeval times so common to fantasy works. Definitions of many of the less common or more difficult words used in the tale are found in the bottom margin of the pages.

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Summary: A book for all ages
Review: This book is not only well written and entertaining, but also magical and enchanting. Coleman creates an entire world with her words, adding enough description to keep the story moving smoothly, yet leaving room for our imaginations to wander. She also uses more challenging words than your standard young adult book, but the footnoted definitions help expand vocabulary and teach new words to readers. It is a definite must-read.

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Summary: ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS THAT I JUST COULDN'T PUT DOWN !!
Review: This is a wonderful read,literate,enchanting and with enough tension to keep the pages turning.

You can tell that Alice Coleman enjoys telling her tale. Just read the author's biography and you will know that this is a story for children 8-12 and their parents as well.

There is an added benefit of a sophisticated vocabulary and helpful definitions as a learning tool for young readers.

A great gift idea.

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Summary: How do you teach vocabulary?
Review: While I agree with the other reviewers that the story is fun, I dislike the insistent footnoting of 'vocabulary' words on almost every page. Readers or listeners with good English will pick up most meanings from context, and the definitions tend to be just a small step simpler than the original (e.g. "alliance: union, cojoining" (sic) on page 6.) Unless the book is being assigned as a class lesson there is no good reason to pepper it so.