The Glimme

Emily Rodda

The Glimme
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Scholastic Australia
Country
Australia
Published
1 October 2019
Pages
384
ISBN
9781862919570

The Glimme

Emily Rodda

Lone Annie sees dragons in your future…She sees giants. She sees fire and water. She sees death.     

Finn’s life in the village of Wichant is hard. Only his drawings of the wild coastline, with its dragon-shaped clouds and headlands that look like giants, make him happy.     

Then the strange housekeeper from a mysterious clifftop mansion sees his talent and buys him for a handful of gold and then reveals to him seven extraordinary paintings. Finn thinks the paintings must be pure fantasy-such amazing scenes and creatures can’t be real!     

He’s wrong. Soon he is going to slip through the veil between worlds and plunge into the wonders and perils of The Glimme.

Review

Finn lives in a perfectly ordinary village – a place where nothing strange ever happens (other than the occasional person mysteriously disappearing). Much to his ornery grandfather’s disgust, Finn spends every spare moment sketching dragons and monsters that are not there. When a severe and enigmatic housekeeper offers to buy Finn from his grandparents, they happily take her gold and Finn soon finds himself in an empty Manor staring at paintings of a strange land. He is then forced to recreate these paintings over and over, until one day he wakes up to find himself in the ravaged world of the painting and on a desperate quest to stop a deadly war with dragons.

The Glimme is a perfect combination of Emily Rodda’s two styles of writing in one. Like Finders Keepers or the more recent His Name Was Walter, it’s a story that offers a doorway from an ordinary world into another more magical one – one you might just be able to see if you have the right heart – but like Deltora Quest and Rowan of Rin, The Glimme is also a traditional quest story, a heavy fantasy with magic and dragons. In addition to the wonderful story, Marc McBride’s excellent, imaginative illustrations will have kids revisiting the book over and over again. It’s a beautiful-looking book and with Christmas around the corner it will make a great gift for all kids aged 7+.


Dani Solomon is the assistant manager at Readings Kids.

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