If so, how has she managed to survive the centuries? Although it is part of a series, it can definitely be read on its own. Though be sure that they are OK. A wonderful book for older kids. This one, in which cute little jacanas (which hatch with claws on their wings, and use the claws to climb before they have wings that can fly) morph into man-eating raptors, and human sacrifices' bones are ground up to prolong a tyrant queen's life, goes beyond its original mission. All in all, a fun, fast, rollicking read for youngsters and adults alike. BUY NOW FROM. This one was a little insane, though. Find all the books, read about the author and more. For some reason, Aiken leaves off with her pseudo-Dickens mode, which makes this book a lot less amusing. During the mythical reign of Britain's King George IV, the ship carrying 12-year-old Dido from Nantucket back to England is ordered to stop off in New Cumbria, a mysterious South American nation ruled by a suspiciously ancient queen. A dazzling piece of dramatic, snowballing adventure, THE STOLEN LAKE is full of fantastical details: revolving palaces, witches who are also court dressmakers, an apocalyptic volcanic eruption, and an infernal country with a noticeable lack of female children. It's been a while since I read any Joan Aiken. Police in the Central Okanagan are requesting public help after an ATM was stolen early Tuesday. Ramon Beltran, 37, was booked into the Salt Lake County Jail for investigation of being in a stolen vehicle, failing to stop for police, possessing burglary tools, theft by receiving stolen property, and failing to remain at the scene of an injury accident. Dido Twite in American New Cumbria on her wildest adventure yet. The stolen lake by Joan Aiken, unknown edition, On her way to England from Nantucket aboard a British man-o'-war, Dido has many adventures when the ship is diverted to the land of New Cumbria in the southern hemisphere. Is she equal to the challenge? This is the first Wolves chronicle I read, not long after it was published, but after a slight initial confusion it had a logic of its own. Another customer’s vehicle was stolen from a Lady Lake repair shop a week after a Villager’s vehicle was snatched from the same location. The ATM stolen from a Lake Country pub and the van used in an apparent theft have been found, but police are still on the lookout for the suspects. Buy a cheap copy of The Stolen Lake book by Joan Aiken. The book ends surprisingly sadly for a children's book and you have to take a deep breath (with Dido) and turn to an uncertain future where things might, or might not work out. The Stolen Lake (Wolves Chronicles Book 4) - Kindle edition by Aiken, Joan. Read 74 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Readers who have followed Dido Twite’s escapades in BLACK HEARTS IN BATTERSEA and NIGHTBIRDS ON NANTUCKET will welcome her return in her wildest adventure yet. The queen is greatly distressed because a neighbouring king has stolen her lake. Still, the first half, before it becomes mixed up in. I only wish I'd joined Dido on her adventures when I was 10 instead of discovering them at nearly 40! Prime members enjoy Free Two-Day Shipping, Free Same-Day or One-Day Delivery to select areas, Prime Video, Prime Music, Prime Reading, and more. This one was a little insane, though. The Stolen Lake by Joan Aiken continues the Wolves Chronicles, an imaginative series from Joan Aiken’s classic The Wolves of Willoughby Chase. The wonderful Dido Twite finds herself in Roman America involved in an adventure in part based on Arthurian legend. Aiken took. [The concept of Arthur reborn and Ginevra (not Guinevere?) It's a combination of King Arthur, an alternative Camelot set in an alternative Roman/British region located in South America, and the usual Dido Twite version of England. A dazzling piece of dramatic, snowballing adventure, THE STOLEN LAKE is full of fantastical details: revolving palaces, witches who are also court dressmakers, an apocalyptic volcanic eruption, and an infernal country with a noticeable lack of female children. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 21, 2013, Dido Twite: Unlikely but Unmistakable Heroine, Reviewed in the United States on May 21, 2020. Well, that does it for me, finishing off another adventure following Dido round the world and spending a good amount of time in a fantasy Bath with some sites grounded in reality. Dido faces fire, flood, wild beasts and, ultimately, threat of execution in order to get the lake back. This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. And why aren't there any girls Dido's age in the entire country? The first three books maybe had teeny-tiny glimpses of some freaky stuff, but this is where all the withcrafty, nightmarish evil explodes in full force upon your unsuspecting imagination. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. Best Forgotten Fantasy of the 20th Century, James Davis Nicoll's "100 SF/F Books You Should Consider Reading in the New Year", Across the Wall: A Tale of the Abhorsen and Other Stories. Turned out to be too complex and scary to read to him, so I read it myself. I love Aiken's Wolves Chronicles, but this one isn't even worth being part of the series. The video was posted on … more adventures of dido twite. totally absurd and totally enjoyable with very funny bits that left me with a hankering for more aiken and a better knowledge of king arthur's legend. Dido Twite is the best! (OK, I haven't read Dido and Pa, but of the others.) Here we have the Arthurian legend added to the story, and some very nasty characters indeed who maintain their own lives at any cost. I LOVED this! A Penticton family is paying it forward after total strangers came together to replace their young children’s bikes that were stolen during a walk in the trails near Penticton Avenue on New Year’s Day, Jan. 1. AMAZON BARNES & NOBLE GET WEEKLY BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS: Email Address Subscribe Tweet. I do love her all-out adventures, even when they go over the top, like this one. Is she, as she claims, the widow of King Arthur? January 6th 2005 This one, in which cute little jacanas (which hatch with claws on their wings, and use the claws to climb before they have wings that can fly) morph into man-eating raptors, and human sacrifices' bones are ground up to prolong a tyrant queen's life, goes beyond its. She was known as a writer of wild fantasy, Gothic novels and short stories. This one had passed me by and boy is it BIZARRE, A wonderful book for older kids. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. Nightbirds on Nantucket: Wolves of Willoughby Chase, #3: The Wolves of Willoughby Chase Series, The Cuckoo Tree: Wolves of Willoughby Chase, #6: The Wolves of Willoughby Chase Series, Limbo Lodge: Wolves of Willoughby Chase, #5: The Wolves of Willoughby Chase Series, Dido and Pa: Wolves of Willoughby Chase, #7: The Wolves of Willoughby Chase Series, Black Hearts in Battersea: Wolves of Willoughby Chase, #2. © 2008-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates, The Stolen Lake (Wolves Chronicles Book 4), Literature & Fiction for Children (Books). The cars were stolen between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m. on Tuesday. The Stolen Lake (The Wolves Chronicles, #4). It's fairly good writing, and a pretty interesting plot, but it has no relevance whatsoever to the rest of the books. As always, great fun, but this time in South America. Ships from and sold by --SuperBookDeals-. The writing is fairly complex, the characters are fully realized, and the action is engaging and exciting throughout. “They came to the high stone shaft with the face of Sul; they descended to the terrace below. this is where things started getting weird...before, it was just an alternate history. WorldCat Home About WorldCat Help. With the same entertaining blend of Cockney common sense and sheer gutsiness that saw her through her earlier adventures, Dido manages to get to the bottom of things--saving an imprisoned princess and, yes, restoring a "stolen" lake in the bargain. Please try your request again later. It's fun, I love my girl Dido, I just would have liked a little warning before the sudden sharp left into Arthurian mythos. Dido Twite, the quick-witted (and sharp-tongued) heroine of "Black Hearts in Battersea" and "Nightbirds on Nantucket," is back in this sequel. The ATM stolen from a Lake Country pub and the van used in an apparent theft have been found, but police are still on the lookout for the suspects. Aiken’s usual taste for the grotesque and phantasmagoric leads to an awkward grafting of Arthurian parody onto an Incan setting in a Roman Latin America. WEST VALLEY CITY — A man allegedly fleeing police in a stolen vehicle was arrested after hitting another car and causing it to roll over. Compared to the last one I'd read (. This book explodes like a firework in the brain, or perhaps like one of the thirteen volcanoes that encircle the misappropriated lake of the title. Search. Books 1-3 are REALLY good (so read those), but don't continue if you're not into horror movies and the like. She's voyaging back to England but encounters all sorts of adventures in this terrifically realised alternative history. The pacing of the story is mad-cap, speeding up until I find myself rushing over the words to get to the end - so it loses some of its strength this way - BUT! After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages that interest you. Throw away that Harry Potter garbage and give your kids Joan Aiken books instead! A pickup truck dragged a stolen bank ATM through Round Lake early Thursday, sparking a police chase that ended with the arrest of a suspect found hiding in a marsh, authorities said. Is she, as she claims, the widow of King Arthur? A lot of gruesomeness for a children’s book but I guess that worked for the Grimm brothers. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of, Published No Kindle device required. Ships from and sold by Book Depository CA. I do hope you enjoy it -- I'm on my third or fourth reread now! The queen is greatly distressed because a neighbouring king has stolen her lake. The writing is fairly complex, the characters are fully realized, and the action is engaging and exciting throughout. Pirates, witches, a queen, a king reborn, a cast of intriguing and sometimes nefarious characters and all manner of beasties are encountered as the story unfolds. It really has no connection to the other books in the series, and I don't think that it's the greatest read for very young children, however it is the most thrilling, the least predictable, DEFINITELY the most imaginative, and the most mature. There are no discussion topics on this book yet. All in all, a fun, fast, rollicking read for youngsters and adults alike. Still, the first half, Delighted to read another Dido Twite adventure. The Wolves Chronicles were, beneath their whimsy, meant to warn children that we do not live in a safe world. My least favorite of the series so far. Perhaps it would be less jarring if I'd seen the style of the books evolve over time. What an imagination she has ... it was a pleasure to read an installment set in a very different country than one is used to encountering in fantasy fiction (a South America colonized by the British very, very, early on, rather than the Spanish or Portuguese later). Tami Charles is a former teacher and the author of picture books, middle grade and young adult novels, and nonfiction. DNF. Number four in the series was published out of order, by a different publisher, because it's...different. Read it, but not as part of the series. A rollicking adventure about 12-year old Dido Twite which takes place on board a ship and in a fictional version of South America ruled by the ancient celts. We’d love your help. Is she equal to the challenge? The shooting happened about 10:14 a.m. in the 20900 block of State Route 410, according to the Pierce County Sheriff's Department. According to a livestream on Facebook on Tuesday evening, an ATM machine that was allegedly stolen in Lake Country has been found, along with the van that was used. It is actually much better than I would have expected for a YA novel. So glad she wrote a lot. Now back in print, THE CUCKOO TREE and THE STOLEN LAKE continue the Wolves Chronicles, the exhilarating and imaginative series that stemmed from Joan Aiken’s classic THE WOLVES OF WILLOUGHBY CHASE. The ideas, the plot, the situations go beyond the merely outrageous and into the sublimely wonderful. Of the many reasons to read the works of Joan Aiken, two stand out: the irresistable pluckiness of the heroines (especially Dido Twite), and Joan's marvellously detailed alternate history of the planet Earth. living for 1300 years simply staggered me. I'm beginning to think I made a mistake following the Goodreads order for the Wolves series (which arranges the events in the books chronologically rather than following the order written), because this one, written much later than Nightbirds, had a much more complicated and I think less satisfying plot. A proper picaresque tale with Dido, the hero, living on her wits as she travels through through fictitious South American countries, watching fellow travellers being hunted to death, torn apart by aurocs, or eaten to death in seconds by piranhas. My favourite (so far) in the sequence. For that matter, why did the midshipman of Dido's vessel take ill as soon as they arrived in port? [Late addendum: "The Stolen Lake" is actually #7 in the series, not #4, though there are multiple sites - including Goodreads - that are restating this error, resulting my reading out of order. Home. The coincidences felt too numerous, the story didn't make sense without accepting its magic, and accepting its magic screwed up my entire understanding of Aiken's world. And why aren't there any girls Dido's age in the entire country? Possibly the best of the Dido Twite Series. A rich mixture of legend, fantasy, humour and pure snowballing adventure. A rich mixture of legend, fantasy, humour and pure snowballing adventure. If so, how has she managed to survive the centuries? To say the least. A Lake Country family is devastated after their puppy was stolen during a break and enter. Aiken's previous "Wolves" series editions stayed in relatively "real world" scenarios, but though "The Stolen Lake" gets off to a slow start aboard a ship, it transforms into a full-blown fantasy. Dido faces fire, flood, wild beasts and, ultimately, threat of execution in order to get the lake back. Aboard the man o`war, the Thrush, on the way back to London from Nantucket, Dido and crew are summoned to the aid of the tyrannical Queen of New Cumbria who has appealed to England as her oldest ally for help - someone has stolen her lake. 1-Click ordering is not available for this item. I could not believe it. 'Hadn't expected that, but after a quick adjustment of expectations this became a spectacular adventure, one I was happy to experience. Part of a series (but the first of them I've read) which began with. I love how this book series is available with Edward Gorey illustrated covers - that seems to perfectly sum up the type of humor you'll encounter. [Joan Aiken] -- On her way to England from Nantucket aboard a British man-o'-war, Dido has many adventures when the ship is diverted to the land of New Cumbria in the southern hemisphere. Aiken took great care to allow most of the novels in the sequence to stand alone, adding just a little background to set it in context. 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