Kit's Wilderness

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Summary: Great Story, Excellent Writing
Review: This is a compelling story about friendship and danger. You can read it just for the story, or pay more attention and see a lot of fascinating connections and images. To those who wish it had won the Newbery, it wasn't eligible because the author is British. ...

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Summary: I was close
Review: In my previous review of Kit's Wilderness I said it should get the Newbery, but I'm perfectly content that it won the Michael L. Printz which is supposed to be just as prestigious and I have to believe it. They have chosen the absolute best book written for young adults in the last few years. What I have found is that young adults love this book and that most adults don't. I can't wait for David Almond's next book!

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Summary: This is a must read!
Review: Kit's Wilderness is my favorite book. Better than harry potter. The description is amazing. At parts, I actually thought that I was Kit. But I always felt that I was in the book. David Almond provides the most wonderful story and description a book could have!

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Summary: Terrific read for all ages
Review: After reading Skellig to my son, we couldn't wait for Kit's Wilderness. But it was worth the wait. Like Skellig, Kit's Wilderness is dark and mysterious, with the reader left to answer many questions on his own. Almond's books are a great transition from typical kid's literature (e.g. Harry Potter) to a more adult reading experience, in which the reader has to draw his own conclusions about the characters and their actions. But this is also a terrific read for adults. I am anxiously waiting for more from David Almond.

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Summary: A brief review of the Wilderness
Review: Almond, D. (2000). Kit's Wilderness. Delacorte:NY. Thirteen-year-old Jason moves with his dad to an old coal mining town. He makes friends with John and together they create a game called "Death." As the game progresses Kit begins to here voices which may be from the dead. An eerie story, and if you liked Almond's book "Skellig" than you should like "Kit's Wilderness."

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Summary: DA BEST
Review: this book waz really cool.....i luv david almond's style of writting......this has 2 b his best book yet! ! EVERY1 MUST READ THIS BOOK!

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Summary: NOT Just for Young Adults..
Review: Like Richard Cormier's books, this "Young Adult" novel is not just for those under 20.

Nothing is black and white, everything is poetic, mysterious and slightly cloudy in this original, enticing novel by David Almond.

The opening chapters look morbid - Kit is new to the community where his ailing granddad grew up, a mining town in England. He's reluctantly drawn into a group led by the dark and sinister John Askew, the son of the town alcoholic. These kids play a game called "Death" - Askew holds a knife to the one chosen in a spin-the-bottle selection, and takes them into the deep dark mine and leaves them there. The Dead One emerges moments or hours later, claiming to have been truly dead.

I got that far and thought this book wasn't for me - surely something evil was going to happen to Kit who was drawn both to Askew and the game.

I pushed on, and was greatly rewarded. Kit struggles with his wish to believe that no matter what others may say about someone, there is a goodness within all, waiting to be recognized and invited out. He expresses this through a story within-the-story, that ties in with Askew's disappearance, his own grandfather's preparation for dying (wonderfully handled) and his shadowy visions of many children - one special one named Silky - who died years ago in the mines.

Although I saw this somewhere referred to as like Harry Potter, I'd have to say it's not - the audience for this book is looking for more substance than entertainment (and I LOVE Harry Potter books).

An excellent read!

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Summary: A note for educators, parents, grandparents:
Review: This is a wonderful book about the power of inter-generational storytelling. I hope it will inspire young adults, and old ones, too, to root themselves in family stories.

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Summary: Compelling and Magical
Review: I read this book with no idea whatsoever that it was intended for young adults. I am an old adult! That said, it is a truly wonderful and involving story, with layer upon layer of mystery, including the great mystery of how all generations are connected.

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Summary: Kit's Wilderness
Review: Kit's Wilderness is really amazing. It's all about a boy called Kit, who joins a gang of kids who play a mysterious game in the wilderness near the river. The game is called death and it seems that only Askew and Kit really understand the game. But one day Kit's teacher follows him and disturbs him while he is 'dead' according to the rules Kit should remain in the spirit world, so he becomes the living dead.

The book is brilliant and I would definetly recomend it