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More images from the pop up ed of Tom Gordon
Hi
I'm happy to be able to show you more images from the upcoming pop up edition of The Girl who loved Tom Gordon. These are picture of the artist's prototype of the book and not the finished once though but its still interesting pictures.
Don’t miss them
Lilja
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Lilja's Library - The World of Stephen King: http://www.Liljas-Library.com
I'm happy to be able to show you more images from the upcoming pop up edition of The Girl who loved Tom Gordon. These are picture of the artist's prototype of the book and not the finished once though but its still interesting pictures.
Don’t miss them
Lilja
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Lilja's Library - The World of Stephen King: http://www.Liljas-Library.com
Comments
Of course, I'll believe it when I actually have the book in my hands!
John
The first author who comes to mind when one thinks of pop-up books probably isn't Stephen King. But his 1999 young-adult novel "The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon" makes a surprisingly good conversion to the format. The story, about a 9-year-old girl who is lost in deep woods with little in the way of comfort other than a Walkman tuned to Red Sox games, is condensed from its original 224 pages into a short story. It's long by pop-up standards; even so, in this abridged telling, it feels as if something might have been lost in the way of dramatic tension and character development. But this is a pop-up book we're talking about -- really, how much character development can one expect? Being a King book, there is a dash of scary in the form of an unknown, unseen thing that pursues frightened but resilient Trisha McFarland through the woods, but it's nothing compared with King at his worst (best). And although King's name is four times the size of the book's title on the cover, the real star here is Kees Moerbeek, the Dutch "paper engineer" who makes comets race across a nighttime sky, water shimmer in a reflecting pool and "the thing in the woods" come to life. It's sort of sad to think that somewhere out there are thousands of indelicate hands just waiting to wear out Moerbeek's intricate levers and folds and carefully designed environments, but such is the fate of the poor pop-up book: The better it is, the more use it gets.
Eric Hanson
By Leigh Fenly
October 17, 2004
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
Stephen King
Simon & Schuster, 14 pages, ages 8 to 12, $24.95
What's Stephen King doing writing a pop-up book?
Breaking some new ground.
Pop-up books have always been for toddlers. But toddlers are too busy paper-ripping and page-tasting to be enamored with pop-up engineering.
A better audience would be an older audience. The way King does it here, you wonder why no one thought of that before.
The king of chill works his old magic: a lost-in-the-woods-alone-and-scared theme laced with cliffhanging scenes, howling weather, near-starvation, blood on the ground and ghostly apparitions. "The third priest," King writes, "had a face of living wasps."
Goose bumps arise and stay.
Things start calmly enough, with a blue Caravan cruising country roads. Trisha's in back, tuning out the argument between her mother and older brother in the front seat. Divorce has turned him sullen and the mother manic on the subject of togetherness. She's organized this family hike, but almost as soon as they set out into the forest – which rises on the double-page spread in creepy 3-D – disaster starts brewing.
Trisha gets separated.
" 'Somebody! I'm lost!' There. She'd said it. The admission made her voice all weepy. 'Help!' "
Trisha may be alone in the normal sense, but, in her days of increasing delirium, she imagines a companion: her favorite ballplayer, the Red Sox pitcher, the closer, Tom Gordon. Lightning cracks, she shakes with fever, but Gordon's semi-presence keeps her marching.
King's writing sizzles with tension, but he's having fun, too. " 'Checkerberries, ho!' she cried in a cracked voice" – a line only Stephen King could get away with.
The paper engineering is grand. It plays with scale and perspective, so that sometimes you're looking down, then up, then around a bend into the scary known. King manages to pack a rather lengthy story into numerous foldout sections, although sometimes it's confusing following the text front to back.
Sounds like what happened with the overpriced My Pretty Little Pony limited. i hope this isn't true