Also published as: The 13 Clocks

Author: James Thurber Year: 1950 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fantasy, Fiction, Children, Classic Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble OpenLibrary Amazon Google Books LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781597776882 9780143110149 1597776882 0143110144

How can anyone describe this book? It isn't a parable, a fairy story, or a poem, but rather a mixture of all three. It is beautiful and it is comic. It is philosophical and it is cheery. What we suppose we are trying fumblingly to say is, in a word, that it is Thurber. There are only a few reasons why everybody has always wanted to read this kind of story: if you have always wanted to love a Princess; if you always wanted to be a Prince; if you always wanted the wicked Duke to be punished; or if you always wanted to live happily ever after. Too little of this kind of thing is going on in the world today. But all of it is going on valorously in The 13 Clocks. Similar books: Winter of Fire by Sherryl Jordan Dragons and Marshmallows by Asia Citro Gwinna by Barbara Helen Berger Rise of the Earth Dragon by Tracey West David and the Phoenix by Edward Ormondroyd What the Witch Left by Ruth Chew Little Witch by Anna Elizabeth Bennett The Changeling by Zilpha Keatley Snyder A Circle of Cats by Charles de Lint Waiting for the Magic by Patricia MacLachlan A Wonderlandiful World by Shannon Hale Enchanted Glass by Diana Wynne Jones The Magic of Finkleton by K. C. Hilton The Folk Keeper by Franny Billingsley The Ogre Downstairs by Diana Wynne Jones Seaward by Susan Cooper Fog Magic by Julia L. Sauer The Tree That Sat Down by Beverley Nichols I, Coriander by Sally Gardner