Gom on Windy Mountain (Tales of Gom in the Legends of Ulm) [Paperback]

Grace Chetwin (Author, Illustrator), Grace Chetwin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 25, 1999 | Series: From Tales of Gom in the legends of Ulm

Volume I of the series Tales of Gom in the Legends of Ulm. Nominated for the oldest children's literature award in the U.S., the Northwest Pacific Young People's Choice Award, it begins a 9-book saga of Gom's quest which begins as an effort to find his mother and escalates into a struggle to save his very world from extinction. Gom is an oddball, possessing qualities he didn't inherit from his simple, woodcutter father. He can speak with creatures, he is given to having strange "waking dreams" which warn him of danger. And he wears a mysterious stone, a rune, which in times of crisis comes alive, even hums against his chest. Torn between the desire to please his father and stay on Windy Mountain and the need to go find his mother, Gom in the end is forced to make tough choices.

Product Details

• Paperback: 195 pages
• Publisher: Feral Press; Feral Press, Inc. edition (October 25, 1999)
• Language: English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Japanese, Russian, Ukrainian, Chinese, Hindi, Tamil, Telug, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Punjabi, Gujarati, Bengali, Korean
• ISBN-10: 1930094000
• ISBN-13: 978-1930094000
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 7.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,036,782 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars oh yeah!, October 8, 2000

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This review is from: Gom on Windy Mountain (Tales of Gom in the Legends of Ulm) (Paperback)

Excellent book wonderful for middle schoolers. It gives tem and excellent start on the world of fantasy and adult literature, and for the high schoolers through old men it lets u revisit the "good old days". In my opinion this book and the whole series is better than lord of the rings.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Slow start to a good children's series, September 22, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Gom on Windy Mountain (Tales of Gom in the Legends of Ulm) (Paperback)

First off, I must admit that it has been many years since I last read this book, however I do have a relatively good memory of it.

Basic plot: Gom is a mousy haired boy living with his lumberjack father, Zig (I think) in the mountains, his mother being a wizard who disappeared at his birth and has never been seen since. Most of the book revolves around Gom's everyday life and his strange affinity with the world around him, until near the end of the book he gets drawn into an adventure that will send him off to learn magic and find his mother later in the series.

For a typical imaginative child, if they can get through this book, I think they will very much enjoy the rest of the series, I know that I did.