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eliathereader's review
5.0
Çok beğenerek okudum ve bazı yerlerde hayvan çiftliğine benzettim. Güzel bir kitaptı.
ayshetic's review against another edition
4.0
Alice Harikalar Diyarında + Hayvan Çiftliği = Ters Yüz Şatosu
anyepagan's review
adventurous
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
claire_84's review against another edition
3.0
Alice in Wonderland meets Animal Farm with maybe a dash of The Lorax?
I think this is a well written, very clever book. I enjoyed the songs/poems throughout.
Loved the illustrations from Chris Riddell as always.
It was a slow start for me as I felt like I missed the beginning of the book, like if Alice in Wonderland started as she was falling down the rabbit hole, which threw me a bit at first but after a few chapters I was in!
I think this is a well written, very clever book. I enjoyed the songs/poems throughout.
Loved the illustrations from Chris Riddell as always.
It was a slow start for me as I felt like I missed the beginning of the book, like if Alice in Wonderland started as she was falling down the rabbit hole, which threw me a bit at first but after a few chapters I was in!
lucijaselak's review
4.0
This book was so fun. The story was cool and unique. The writing was very nice. The illustrations were very nice and detailed. And also, the cover is so beautiful. My favorite characters were Hero and Nero, because they were funny and I liked them. I really think that children would enjoy this book!
trish204's review against another edition
5.0
OK, I'll admit it: I only bought this book because it said that Chris Riddell had contributed the illustrations. Only afterwards did I take a look at the synopsis. But you know what?! It didn't matter and still doesn't because this story is FANTASTIC!
It seems to me as if it had a few elements we are already familiar with thanks to Mr. Orwell but they were more child-friendly here.
A girl wants to save a people (the green people) who are suffering tremendously so she enters The Castle. In there, she encounters horribly selfish creatures who live off the poor green people from outside the castle.
Basically, it's a story about equality, humanity, compassion and the right thing to do. It's also about sharing and (surprisingly perhaps) environmentalism (the green people are not only starving but also getting sick from polluted air).
It's quite a dark subject of course, which can also be seen from Chris Riddell's brilliant illustrations that are very dark here indeed but definitely hit a nerve!
The writing style is a bit mischievous at times, probably to light things up a bit, but the author also managed to somehow write in a kind of distant way which seemed so appropriate when I thought about the inhabitants of the castle and what they were doing to the world and everyone outside their castle.
I bought this book via amazon marketplace since it's out of print and, unfortunately, it didn't arrive in the condition promised. However, as I found out only today, there seems to be a new edition coming out this year. Yay!
This really is a book for young and old, addressing very important aspects of people and their lives, and I hope it will get more well-known in the future!
It seems to me as if it had a few elements we are already familiar with thanks to Mr. Orwell but they were more child-friendly here.
A girl wants to save a people (the green people) who are suffering tremendously so she enters The Castle. In there, she encounters horribly selfish creatures who live off the poor green people from outside the castle.
Basically, it's a story about equality, humanity, compassion and the right thing to do. It's also about sharing and (surprisingly perhaps) environmentalism (the green people are not only starving but also getting sick from polluted air).
It's quite a dark subject of course, which can also be seen from Chris Riddell's brilliant illustrations that are very dark here indeed but definitely hit a nerve!
The writing style is a bit mischievous at times, probably to light things up a bit, but the author also managed to somehow write in a kind of distant way which seemed so appropriate when I thought about the inhabitants of the castle and what they were doing to the world and everyone outside their castle.
I bought this book via amazon marketplace since it's out of print and, unfortunately, it didn't arrive in the condition promised. However, as I found out only today, there seems to be a new edition coming out this year. Yay!
This really is a book for young and old, addressing very important aspects of people and their lives, and I hope it will get more well-known in the future!
littledevonnook's review against another edition
3.0
A pleasant read, definitely one I would recommend to a younger audience!
I got a lot of Alice in Wonderland vibes off this book - it follows a young girl called Lorina as she is led by a rabbit (you see what I mean), through to a magical place where she encounters little green people who are starving to death on the outside of a large castle. Lorina takes it upon herself to try and save the little green people and soon finds herself being buffeted between the greedy and cruel animals living within the castle. Can Lorina save the green people?! Who will triumph?
A fun and quick read - definitely one to that I'm going to pass on to some younger friends.
I got a lot of Alice in Wonderland vibes off this book - it follows a young girl called Lorina as she is led by a rabbit (you see what I mean), through to a magical place where she encounters little green people who are starving to death on the outside of a large castle. Lorina takes it upon herself to try and save the little green people and soon finds herself being buffeted between the greedy and cruel animals living within the castle. Can Lorina save the green people?! Who will triumph?
A fun and quick read - definitely one to that I'm going to pass on to some younger friends.
bookmagpie's review against another edition
3.0
The rating is mostly for what I thought of it as a kid as opposed to now. It's one of those books that I really loved and I can't for the life of me fathom WHY. It reads like "Baby's First Book of Communism" now. I dunno, the message was a bit too ham-fisted for me to really enjoy it but I can see why I liked it as a kid (the message of sharing with those less fortunate was really all I picked up on at the time). Basically, it's not the message that bothers me, but the execution.
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