Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up | Series: Redwall
In the world of Redwall, knowing your friend from your foe can mean the difference between life and death! Celebrate Redwall's loyal heroes--Martin, Matthias, Mariel, and more--and condemn its villainous vermin with this new presentation from Brian Jacques' best-selling series.
This one-of-a-kind pack contains a pull-out color poster featuring Redwall's fiends and favorites, plus a booklet filled with puzzles, quizzes, information about key characters, and a fantastic introduction from Brian Jacques himself.
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A well-known radio personality in his native Liverpool--as well as an actor, stand-up comic, and playwright--Brian Jacques (1939-2011) was the host of "Jakestown" on BBC Radio Merseyside. Ever the performer, Jacques was well-known for applying his acting and entertainment background to his lively presentations to legions of young fans at schools across the United States and England. Brian Jacques was born in Liverpool, England on June 15th, 1939. Along with forty percent of the population of Liverpool, his ancestral roots are in Ireland, County Cork to be exact. He grew up in the area around the Liverpool docks. His interest in adventure stories began at an early age with reading the books of: Daniel Defoe, Sir Henry Rider Haggard, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Thomas Malory, Robert Michael Ballantyne, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and Kenneth Grahame. He attended St. John's School, an inner city school that had its playground on the roof. On his first day at St. John's, at the age of ten, he had an experience that marked his potential as a writer. When given an assignment of writing a story about animals, he wrote about the bird that cleaned a crocodile's teeth. The teacher could not, and would not, believe that a ten year old could write that well. When young Brian refused to falsely say that he had copied the story, he was caned as "a liar". He had always loved to write, but it was only then, that he realized that he had a talent for writing. "My favourite teacher was Mr. Austin Thomas. He looked like Lee Marvin. Big Man. A Captain in World War II. He came to school on a big bush bike with the haversack on back. He was a man's man. Always fair. I was fourteen at the time when Mr. Thomas introduced the class to poetry and Greek literature. (Because of him, I saved seven shillings and sixpence to buy The Iliad and The Odyssey at this dusty used book shop.)" This interest in poetry extended to Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Goldsmith. It was also at St. John's that Brian met a teacher, Alan Durband (who also taught two Beatles, Paul McCartney and George Harrison), who, more than thirty years later would bring about a major change in his life. After Brian finished school at fifteen, he set out to find adventure as a merchant seaman. He travelled to many far away ports, including New York, Valparaiso, San Francisco, and Yokohama. Tiring of the lonely life of a sailor, he returned to Liverpool where he worked as a railway fireman, a longshoreman, a long-distance truck driver, a bus driver, a boxer, a bobby (Police Constable 216D), a postmaster, and a stand-up comic. Jacques passed away in February of 2011 at the age of 71.
This review is from: Redwall Friend & Foe: The Guide to Redwall's Heroes & Villains (with Giant Poster) (Paperback)
This is an extremly practical guide for those of us who are aquianted with the Redwall series. Beautifully illustrated, it states in plain terms who the bad guys are and why. Not to mention giving a pretty good introduction on who their heroic opponents are. But, if you haven't read all of the Redwall series this guide could ruin some very good surprises. I highly reccomend it for those of us who know Redwall "like the back of our paws..." but not for the newbies.
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 starsA GREAT BOOK, September 25, 2000
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This review is from: Redwall Friend & Foe: The Guide to Redwall's Heroes & Villains (with Giant Poster) (Paperback)
I greatly enjoyed reading this book. Not only was it a well written one, but it helped me figure out some of the characters from other books that Brian Jacques has written. If your like me and have read alot of other books by Brian Jacques you may have found it to be hard to understand because there are so many characters in the books that you may get them mixed up. So if you like to read Redwall books you might mant to buy this book.
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 starsCool poster, April 6, 2001
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This review is from: Redwall Friend & Foe: The Guide to Redwall's Heroes & Villains (with Giant Poster) (Paperback)
this book is great. The packet isn't much, but the poster is awesome. It includes the most important charachters (good and bad guys). It has beautiful artwork and shows the sword of Martin, which I was curious about. It's GRRRRRREAT!!!!!!
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