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Barnaby Brocket's life is floating above the heads of everyone. His parents are distraught that he floats... gravity is nothing to him. IN fact, they are beside themselves and hate that the world is looking... they just wanted a simple normal life. Unless weighted or tethered, Barnaby floats. Mrs. Brocket is angry that Barnaby will not stop this and just be normal, so after being discovered on a school outing, she takes him for a walk and cuts the backpack that has held him down, and watches him...
What do you call as normal? Is being normal like any others? If so, how boring our life is. Compared to Barnaby, our life might be boring. But for Brocket family, Barnaby is not a normal child, he is a curse, he brings a shame to their family.Husband and wife Brocket never thought that their life wouldn’t be the same as soon as Barnaby was born. For all their lives, they tried their best not to stand out. Unlike his siblings, Barnaby was against gravity. Wherever he went, even as soon as he was
This book was definitely interesting; meant for children but highly packed with valuable morals people of all ages need to be reminded of. The main moral: its perfectly fine to be different.I've read Boyne's Noah Barleywater Runs Away, so I wasn't surprised with certain fantasy and illogical elements being written about. Being very used to YA and adult books though, I had to keep reminding myself that it's a children's book so its perfectly okay to read about a boy who can float and travels arou...
#confirmed, Mr. Murphy has good taste in literature. Even though it's a kids book i thoroughly enjoyed it and loved the celebration of being different in this book and I think it's a great way of showing kids that being different is great and maybe the best thing about us.also, it had some really great queer-coded characters (not in the queer-fishing type of way), which made me really happy. :))
This book was an amazingly funny book by John Boyne about a boy called Barnaby Brocket born into a very ordinary house with ordinary parents but the second he is born, he defies the laws of gravity by floating to the ceiling! (the spoiler is sort of quite spoilerish) (view spoiler)[ One day when he and his very ordinary mum, and dog, take a nice walk around the botanic gardens, when they stop for a rest, his mum cuts the sandbag he was warring on his back and the sand tips out and Barnaby Brocke...
I was drawn to this book because I like quirky stories, and I'm a huge fan of Oliver Jeffers (the illustrator). And this book started out great! Poor Barnaby Brockett, born to terrible parents, sibling to two very ordinary kids, and master to one devoted dog. The book reads much as a classic Roald Dahl book might (complete with TERRIBLE parents!), and Jeffers's illustrations add a similar touch as Quentin Blake's might.And yet, the book gets both more absurd and a trifle more boring in the secon...
I don't really know what else to say apart from, I LOVE this book! It's just one of those rare novels that's heart-warming and sweet in every way possible. You really shouldn't be put off by the almost childish cover (in my opinion, it's so cute!) because this book shouldn't be missed by anybody! It's definitely a book that can be enjoyed by all ages!One thing I adored about this book, is that it reminded me so much of Roald Dahl's books! And who doesn't love Roald Dahl?! Yet again just let me s...
I really liked this book,at the end it inspires you to be who YOU want to be,not what anyone else wants you to be.It's telling you to go where life takes you, to have new adventures.The Terrible Thing That Happened to Barnaby Brocket wasn't actually that bad, the journey life took him on made him realise that he wanted to be himself, not what his parents wanted him to be and definitely not what others wanted him to be.This book is very inspiring and I would definitely recommend it if you are loo...
3,4* It was wonderful to read about Barnaby's journey and to see how the people who crossed his path led him to gradually develop something he did not have before (view spoiler)[ - the self love that finally allowed him to seek his own happiness (hide spoiler)].We all want to be valued and cherished by the people we love, but that should never require changing our essence.
