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PRAISE FORCastaways of the Flying Dutchman
Jacques is a master storyteller who knows just when to boost a books drama, suspense, or humor to move a tale along. He also understands how to create charactersboth good and evilthat ring true. Ben and Neb are wonderfully real characters whose battles to aid people in need will readily appeal to readers. Jacquess fascination with detail will help readers feel as if they, too, are traveling to each of the three worlds visited by Ben and Neb.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Jacques captures the details of nineteenth-century, small-town England and its people with great panache. Readers will come to care about the good-hearted immortal boy and his faithful black lab.
The Horn Book Magazine
The swashbuckling language brims with color and melodrama; the villains are dastardly and stupid; and buried treasure, mysterious clues, and luscious culinary descriptions keep the pages turning. Booklist
Those who fancy old-fashioned sleuthing with a touch of fantasy may... find the [characters] landbound adventures diverting.
The Bulletin of the Center for Childrens Books
Jacquess fans will be tickled by the characters goofy slap-stick.
Publishers Weekly
For fans of Jacques, the length will be expected, the growth of the peripheral characters ability to stand up for themselves gratifying, and the murderous cruelty and evil of all the villains fitting them as valid opponents for avenging angel, boy and dog. The portrayal of the deeds of the evil captain and his equally horrible crew is vivid. It is the stuff of nightmares... and readers may find it haunting long after the book is read. Legend and magical elements enliven this melodramatic and sentimental tale, which will undoubtedly be loved by Redwall fans.
Kirkus Reviews
PRAISE FOR THENEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLINGREDWALLSERIES
Wonderfully imaginative. The New York Times Book Review
Readers will rejoice. Los Angeles Times
Children are privileged to enter the rich world of Redwall and Mossflower. So are the parents who get to come along.
The Boston Phoenix
A richly imagined world in which bloody battles vie for attention with copious feasting and tender romancing.
The Cincinnati Enquirer
A grand adventure story. Once the reader is hooked, there is no peace until the final page. Chicago Sun-Times
Old-fashioned swashbuckling adventure. Locus
The Redwall books... add a touch of chivalry and adventure reminiscent of the King Arthur stories.
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Filled with rousing adventure, strong characters, and vibrant settings. The Boston Sunday Globe
Jacquess realistically drawn characters are full of personality.
Publishers Weekly
Packed with action and imbued with warmth... richly inventive.
Kirkus Reviews
Grand exploits... another rousing saga. Booklist
Jacquess effortless, fast-paced narrative gets its readers quickly hooked. He clearly loves this other world he has createdtheres a genuine sense of involvement and care (lots of lovingly descriptive passages), as well as an overflowing, driving imagination.
The Birmingham Post
Great reading... entertaining. Classic confrontations between good and evil will never go out of style. The Orlando Sentinel
The Medieval world of Redwall Abbeywhere gallant mouse warriors triumph over evil invadershas truly become the stuff of legend. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
The Knights of the Round Table with paws.
The London Sunday Times
Fast-paced adventure full of scallywags, gentle forest creatures, and incredible feasts. The Sacramento Bee
Jacques offers his usual rip-roaring adventure based on archetypal struggles between good and evil. Added to this addictive mixture are lyrical descriptive passages, quirky characters with wonderful names, their dialects, ditties, and mouth-watering descriptions of the wholesome and nourishing food they are all so fond of. Great stuff. The Times Educational Supplement
The saga is filled with feasting and fun as well as fighting. Jacquess talents for creating memorable characters and weaving several plot strands into one cohesive story are at their best in this exciting adventure. The Horn Book Magazine
The settings may be forest and seaside, but the themes are universal: hope and goodness, trial and initiative. There are blood-thirsty battles and peaceful encounters in the community. There are thoughtless acts of vengeance and camaraderie of the highest quality. The novels are mirrors on society as a whole but portrayed through the eyes of the creatures of the wild.
Salt Lake City (UT) Deseret News
Brian Jacques has the true fantasy writers ability to create a wholly new and believable world. School Library Journal
Jacques extols the virtues of honor and valor.... [The Redwall novels] are a good read, with enticing maps, plenty of songs, a dose of natural history, and loads of excitement, charm, and humor. The Irish Times
Charming... rollicking good adventure. Fantasy Review
Reminiscent of Watership Down. Parents Choice
Also by Brian Jacques
REDWALL
MOSSFLOWER
MATTIMEO
MARIEL OF REDWALL
SALAMANDASTRON
MARTIN THE WARRIOR
THE BELLMAKER
OUTCAST OF REDWALL
PEARLS OF LUTRA
THE LONG PATROL
MARLFOX
THE LEGEND OF LUKE
LORD BROCKTREE
TAGGERUNG
TRISS
LOAMHEDGE
RAKKETY TAM
HIGH RHULAIN
CASTAWAYS OF THE FLYING DUTCHMAN
THE ANGELS COMMAND
VOYAGE OF SLAVES
THE GREAT REDWALL FEAST
A REDWALL WINTERS TALE
SEVEN STRANGE AND GHOSTLY TALES
THE RIBBAJACK
THE TALE OF URSO BRUNOV
THE TRIBES OF REDWALL: BADGERS
THE TRIBES OF REDWALL: OTTERS
THE TRIBES OF REDWALL: MICE
REDWALL MAP AND RIDDLER
BUILD YOUR OWN REDWALL ABBEY
REDWALL FRIEND AND FOE
A REDWALL JOURNAL
THE REDWALL COOKBOOK
THE LEGEND OF THE FLYING DUTCHMAN . Who knows how it all began? Throughout the centuries many a seaman could swear an oath that he had seen the phantom ship. Plowing an endless course over storm-tossed seas and the deeps of mighty oceans. Many a night, mariners have sat together in lantern-lit focsle heads, speaking in hushed tones of the vessel, and its master, Captain Vanderdecken. What awful curse sent the Flying Dutchman bound on an eternal voyage, across the trackless watery wastes, from the Marquesas to the Arctic Circles, from the Coral Seas to the Yucatn Straits, forever roaming alone? Whenever the ghostly craft is sighted, death is near. Bad fortune hovers about those poor sailors, who see by chance what they wish their eyes had never witnessed.
The Flying Dutchman!
Salt-stiff rigging and gale-torn sails flapping eerily, a barnacle-crusted prow, down by the bow in soughing troughs of blue-green waves. Crewed by silent wraiths of humanity to whom time and the elements have no end. Vanderdecken paces the quarterdeck, his face like ancient yellow parchment, hair laced by flying spume, wild, hopeless eyes searching the horizons of the world. Bound to the sea for eternity. For what dread crime? Which unspoken law of man, nature, or God, did he break? What dread nemesis doomed him, his crew, and their ship?
