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Solomon Snow and the Silver Spoon

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A cross between Oliver Twist and A Series of Unfortunate Events, this great new series (at least new to me) chronicles the adventures of young Solomon "Solly" Snow, who lives in the village of Boring and helps with the family laundry business. His life evolves around lugging around an old lady's unmentionables and eating absolutely horrible pottage, but then one day he learns something about his past, involving a spoon and the letters V. I. and P.

He immediately sets off in pursuit of a dream, and is soon joined by an uninvited guest, a clever girl named Prudence with a rather unfortunate proboscis. Against the wishes of the determined duo, their ranks are swelled by a manipulative little cherub named the Infant Prodigy who has a voice that brings tears to the eyes of grown-ups while at the same time jarring the nerves of Solly and Prudence.

And so this unlikely trio arrives in town, and soon find themselves in all sorts of trouble, until they get some unexpected help from an errant Chimney Sweep's assistant named Freddy.

Fast moving, with great characterization and also very easy to read, this one is good from the early unmentionables to the last twist.

Amanda Richards, August 18, 2007

I purchased this for my granddaughter. She is only 10 but she reads everything she can get her hands on. This is the first of the Solomon Snow books she has read and she loved it. She had heard from friends how good it was so when she received it she disappeared into the book for the rest of Easter Sunday and was so excited about it.

I really loved the book.It was so detailed and it has a mix of other books like The Lighting Thief and Peter Pan in high adventure.I listened to the book on CD the reader was very talented in her different voices. The book is about a boy named Solomon Snow who finds out he's adopted and sets out on a quest to find his real parents. His one clue is a spoon with the engraved letters V.I. and P.He sets out with Prudence a person he knows and picks "The Prodigy" she gets her way by batting her eyelashes. Also later along a stray and curious chimney sweep.So read the book and take off with adventures of Solly and his friends!

This a great story, a kind of Dickens "spoof" if you will. The characters are very funny, the story has a nice surprise ending, and it is just so darn good to read aloud! Each chapter starts with comments to the "Intelligent Reader", and it just goes on from there. My kids, son aged 10, daughter aged 8, really enjoyed it. The cliff hanger at the end of each chapter had them begging for more of Solly, Prudence, Rosabella, Mr. Skippy, and Freddy. If you "do" character voices, it adds even more "zip"! Highly reccommended.