Ben Rice
Hardcover | Pages: 112 pages Rating: 3.84 | 1645 Users | 224 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Pobby and Dingan |
| ISBN: | 0375411275 (ISBN13: 9780375411274) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | John Llewellyn Rhys Prize Nominee (2000), Somerset Maugham Award (2001), Lauer Lufti (2005) |
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This enchanting tale is at once a beautifully rendered narrative of childhood loss and a powerfully simple fable about the necessity of imagination. Pobby and Dingan are Kellyanne Williamson’s best friends, maybe her only friends, and only she can see them. Kellyanne’s brother, Ashmol, can’t see them and doesn’t believe they exist anywhere but in Kellyanne’s immature imagination. Only when Pobby and Dingan disappear and Kellyanne becomes heartsick over their loss does Ashmol realize that not only must he believe in Pobby and Dingan, he must convince others to believe in them, too. From the Trade Paperback edition.Particularize Epithetical Books Pobby and Dingan
| Title | : | Pobby and Dingan |
| Author | : | Ben Rice |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 112 pages |
| Published | : | January 16th 2001 by Knopf (first published 2000) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. Australia. Magical Realism. Young Adult |
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This was a strange, atmospheric book that discussing mining towns, the power of community, and the deep ravine that connects the body and mind. When Pobby and Dingan go missing, Ashmol doesn't really care. Maybe it's Kellyanne's way of saying she's too old for her imaginary friends. But when she gets sick, grieving, unable to eat, Ashmol wonders if the only way to make her feel better is to pretend that he's searching for them. With a touch of magical realism, Rice's book is hopeful,I've been wanting to read this book for years, and I finally goat around to doing it. It's a children's book, I think. Actually I'm not sure. It's a bit salty for kids and the ending is a shock.Pobby and Dingan, Kellyanne Williamson's make believe friends, disappear one day when Kellyanne's dad forgets to pick them up after work and bring them home, and Kellyanne gets sicker and sicker the longer Pobby and Dingan go missing. To save the day, Ashmol, Kellyanne's brother, has the whole town turn
In the opal-mining region of Australia, little Kellyanne lives with her dad, her big brother Ashmol, and her imaginary friends, Pobby and Dingan. Ashmol is constantly teasing his little sister about how Pobby and Dingan aren't real and telling her to grow up. He is convinced that his sister is just being a baby who refuses to grow out of her imaginary friend stage. However one day, when Ashmol and Kellyanne's father is suspected of a crime that he didn't commit, and Pobby and Dingan go missing,
A novella with imagination, set in the opal-mining country of Australia. A young girl has two imaginary friends, and everyone around her supports her, except her brother. When her father is accused of "ratting," or poaching someone else's land, she can't find her friends anymore and becomes very very ill. Her brother decides to help her find her "friends" even though he thinks she's crazy. Poignant and authentic; I am happy I found this lying on the shelves in the library.
read this in a couple of hours (less) over the weekend. Kid's book really, and a good one, if all a little too neat for me. Set in a tough opal mining community in Australia with a dying sister and her imaginary (titular) friends.
3.5 stars . Pobby and Dingan is a touching novella about a boy that has to set aside his disbelief in his sister's imaginary friends and find a way to get others to help find them when they go missing. Sweet without being overwrought.
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