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Rose travels on the bear’s broad back to a distant and empty castle, where she is nightly joined by a mysterious stranger. In discovering his identity, she loses her heart—and finds her purpose—and realizes her journey has just begun.
As familiar and moving as Beauty and the Beast, yet as fresh and original as only the best fantasy can be, East is a bold retelling of the classic tale “East of the Sun and West of the Moon,” a sweeping story of grand proportions.
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Release date
June 21, 2005 -
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9780307705754
- File size: 311091 KB
- Duration: 10:48:06
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Languages
- English
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Levels
- ATOS Level: 6.1
- Lexile® Measure: 900
- Interest Level: 9-12(UG)
- Text Difficulty: 4-5
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Reviews
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This story, which is reminiscent of the classic EAST OF THE SUN AND WEST OF THE MOON, is set in Norway. It's a love story focusing on endurance and ethics. Against a backdrop of superstition and mystery, two women and two men portray the four main characters, whose experiences detail uncertainty, perseverance, and hope. Each narration effectively changes the mood as the story evolves. Stand-out performances include Lee Adams, who gives the Troll Queen's gravelly voice an edge of threat and desperation, and Robertson Dean, who succeeds in making White Bear, the bear/man, sound both weathered by decades of enchantment and a feasible love interest. J.M.S. (c) AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine -
July 28, 2003
Readers with a taste for fantasy and folklore will embrace Pattou's (Hero's Song)
lushly rendered retelling of "East of the Sun and West of the Moon." In an old Norwegian village, a highly superstitious mother tries to protect her youngest child, Rose, from a dire prophecy; as the various characters take turns narrating the story, it is readily apparent that no one else takes the superstitions seriously. Nevertheless, Rose is "different" in many ways, from her purple eyes to her passion for weaving, which leads her to make a cloak patterned with a "wind rose" (a mapmaker's symbol indicating the direction of the winds)She also seems to attract the attention of a white bear, and when the bear finally approaches her, offering to make her poor family prosper and to restore her ill sister's health if Rose will come away with him, she finds the offer impossible to resist. Pattou unfolds her story slowly and carefully, luring readers across many miles with the brave and determined Rose. Handsomely evoking a landscape filled with castles, trolls, shamans and spellbound princes, the story will exercise its audience's imagination. Ages 12-up.
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