ハロウィーンがやってきた (ベスト版 文学のおくりもの) [単行本]

"A fast-moving, eerie...tale set on Halloween night. Eight costumed boys running to meet their friend Pipkin at the haunted house outside town encounter instead the huge and cadaverous Mr. Moundshroud. As Pipkin scrambles to join them, he is swept away by a dark Something, and Moundshroud leads the boys on the tail of a kite through time and space to search the past for their friend and the meaning of Halloween. After witnessing a funeral procession in ancient Egypt, cavemen discovering fire, Druid rites, the persecution of witches in the Dark Ages, and the gargoyles of Notre Dame, they catch up with the elusive Pipkin in the catacombs of Mexico, where each boy gives one year from the end of his life to save Pipkin's. Enhanced by appropriately haunting black-and-white drawings."--Booklist --このテキストは、 ペーパーバック 版に関連付けられています。

ハロウィーン!子どもたちが待ちに待った不思議な祭りの夜。古代エジプトへ、パリへ、そしてメキシコへ…。伝説の怪人に導かれ、八人の少年は時をさかのぼる。生きることの喜びと恐れにめざめてゆく少年たちの夢と冒険を詩情ゆたかに描く心おどるファンタジー。

ハロウィーン! 子どもたちが待ちに待った不思議な祭りの夜。古代エジプトへ、パリへ、そしてメキシコへ…。伝説の怪人に導かれ、8人の少年は時をさかのぼる。彼らの夢と冒険を描いたファンタジー。80年刊の再刊。

Special indeed are holiday stories with the right mix of high spirits and subtle mystery to please both adults and children--Charles Dickens's "A Christmas Carol," for example. Or Ray Bradbury's classic The Halloween Tree. Eight boys set out on a Halloween night and are led into the depths of the past by a tall, mysterious character named Moundshroud. They ride on a black wind to autumn scenes in distant lands and times, where they witness other ways of celebrating this holiday about the dark time of year. Bradbury's lyrical prose whooshes along with the pell-mell rhythms of children running at night, screaming and laughing, and the reader is carried along by its sheer exuberance.

Bradbury's stories about children are always attended by dread--of change, adulthood, death. The Halloween Tree, while sweeter than his adult literature, is also touched at moments by the cold specter of loss--which is only fitting, of course, for a holiday in honor of the waning of the sun.

This is a superb book for adults to read to children, a way to teach them, quite painlessly, about customs and imagery related to Halloween from ancient Egypt, Mediterranean cultures, Celtic Druidism, Mexico, and even a cathedral in Paris. (One caveat, though: Bradbury unfortunately perpetuates a couple of misconceptions about Samhain, or summer's end, the Halloween of ancient Celts and contemporary pagans.) This beautiful reprint edition has the original black-and-white illustrations and a new color painting on the dust jacket. --Fiona Webster
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Illustrated in black-and-white. Now back in print is the stunning contemporary classic by American literary treasure Ray Bradbury, author of Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles. Meet the mysterious Mr. Moonshroud, who leads eight boys on a journey back through the centuries to discover the real meaning of Halloween. Prose of exquisite beauty will send shivers of delight--and terror--through readers, who will want to take this trip over and over again, long after the last jack-o'-lantern has gone dark.
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"If you want to know what Halloween is, or if you simply want an eerie adventure, take this mystery-history trip. You couldn't have a better guide than Ray Bradbury."--Boston Globe --このテキストは、 ペーパーバック 版に関連付けられています。

"If you want to know what Halloween is, or if you simply want an eerie adventure, take this mystery-history trip. You couldn't have a better guide than Ray Bradbury."--Boston Globe
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Ray Bradbury lives in Los Angeles.
Joseph Mugnaini lives in California. --このテキストは、 ペーパーバック 版に関連付けられています。