by William Joyce
Date Read: 7/5/16
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
I was having trouble finding an audiobook for my husband and
I to listen to on our commute to work. I somehow stumbled across this, and
since we enjoyed the movie, I checked it out.
We are so happy we did. (Side
note: this story also has a series of picture books titled "The Guardians of Childhood" as well with origin stories
of the Man in the Moon, Sandman, and Jack Frost – and the illustrations are absolutely gorgeous.)
The book was a little slow to start up – it gave a lot of
back history on Pitch (the nightmare King) and how he came to be (a fallen
hero) and setting up the setting of the story in Big Root and what was going on
there with Umbric and Katherine. Once Nicholas St. North actually shows up in
the story it really started getting interesting.
The background story is all needed to really understand the
story – and it’s a very interesting world. I love the magic and the twists on
the childhood characters. I liked how protective North became of Katherine even
though he started out as just a thief. Everything was built up really well and
in a believable amount of time.
Overall a great story. I feel like I missed out though
listening to the audiobook. Reading others reviews, it sounds like there are
illustrations in these chapter books as well. I might have to go look at in the
library just so I can see the illustrations. The ones that are included in the
picture book series are just marvelous (haha, I couldn’t think of any other
words that describe how beautiful they are!).
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