I felt cheated by this book. I thought it would be a fantasy with a bunch of slashing and decapitations and big monsters and stuff about some bridge to some ridiculously ridiculously perfect place where everyone CONVIENIENTLY manages to be able to turn into stuff that would make Cthulhu wet its pants (if it had any to begin with…)
Silly me. I get a depressing book. Bleah.
I must be heartless… I hate that frickin’ book.
There was most certainly a t.v. movie (after school special ?) made of BtT because in middle school my english class watched it. I remember clearly being riveted by the storm scene at the end. I have never read the book . . . a fact that I will remedy next time I get to my friendly neighborhood public library.
I do too. See my previous post. You are not alone.
Yes, definitely. I couldn’t follow Wearia’s link, but I own a copy of the 1985 movie. (I am between homes now so, unfortunately, it is in storage at the moment.)
I remember reading this in the 4th grade, and I remember sobbing. I don’t remember what it was about though. Anyone want to refresh my memory?
The school I taught at had a complaint one year (BtT was regularly read to the 4th grade) because the parents of one child thought it would be too traumatic for their son to have to deal with the death of a main character. They only wanted him exposed to book that were “uplifting”. In the end, he was allowed to stay in the room, but was given specific permission to leave if he was getting upset (to the best of my memory, he never became “too upset” and put the book on his end-of-year list of best books). My point being that this may be another reason (fear of trauma) that the book gets banned.
Gee, and I wonder how that kid who had only been exposed to “uplifting” books and movies and such would react if something horrible happened to one of his parents. “What do you mean? She’s going to be fine, isn’t she? They ALWAYS are…”
I hate when parents want to keep their kids shielded from the world. I know why they want to do it, but there are some things they NEED to know.
I’m going to go find a copy of this book – I haven’t read it in years, if ever, but I know I saw a movie of it years ago. And I adored “Jacob Have I Loved.”