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mareltor 's review for:
Bridge to Terabithia
by Katherine Paterson
My only complaint about this book was that it wasn't long enough. Of course, this book was written for a much younger audience, but I have a big imagination and would have loved to see even more of Terabithia.
I loved how this book addressed so many topics; being different at school, having a strained relationship with your parents, bullies, changing and growing, conquering fears, religion and God, and, of course, grief, especially at such a tender age.
I love that the chapter where Leslie dies is titled "NO!" Isn't that how we all feel when someone we love dies? An immediate denial and fervent wish and prayer that it isn't true, that somehow just saying that they aren't dead must make it so.
Some of my favorite quotes from the book:
"It never occurred to Jess that parents were meant to be understood any more than the safe at the Millsburg First National was sitting around begging him to crack it. Parents were what they were; it wasn't up to you to try to puzzle them out."
"She was more at home with magic than religion."
"It wasn't so much that he minded telling Leslie that he was afraid to go; it was that he minded being afraid. ... Lord, it would be better to be born without an arm than to go through life with no guts."
"It was Leslie who had taken him from the cow pasture into Terabithia and turned him into a king. He had thought that was it. Wasn't king the best you could be? Now it occurred to him that perhaps Terabithia was like a castle where you came to be knighted. After you stayed for a while and grew strong you had to move on. For hadn't Leslie, even in Terabithia, tried to push back the walls of his mind and make him see beyond to the shining world - huge and terrible and beautiful and very fragile? (Handle with care - everything - even the predators.)
"Now it was time for him to move out. She wasn't there, so he must go for both of them. It was up to him to pay back to the world in beauty and caring what Leslie had loaned him in vision and strength."
I loved how this book addressed so many topics; being different at school, having a strained relationship with your parents, bullies, changing and growing, conquering fears, religion and God, and, of course, grief, especially at such a tender age.
I love that the chapter where Leslie dies is titled "NO!" Isn't that how we all feel when someone we love dies? An immediate denial and fervent wish and prayer that it isn't true, that somehow just saying that they aren't dead must make it so.
Some of my favorite quotes from the book:
"It never occurred to Jess that parents were meant to be understood any more than the safe at the Millsburg First National was sitting around begging him to crack it. Parents were what they were; it wasn't up to you to try to puzzle them out."
"She was more at home with magic than religion."
"It wasn't so much that he minded telling Leslie that he was afraid to go; it was that he minded being afraid. ... Lord, it would be better to be born without an arm than to go through life with no guts."
"It was Leslie who had taken him from the cow pasture into Terabithia and turned him into a king. He had thought that was it. Wasn't king the best you could be? Now it occurred to him that perhaps Terabithia was like a castle where you came to be knighted. After you stayed for a while and grew strong you had to move on. For hadn't Leslie, even in Terabithia, tried to push back the walls of his mind and make him see beyond to the shining world - huge and terrible and beautiful and very fragile? (Handle with care - everything - even the predators.)
"Now it was time for him to move out. She wasn't there, so he must go for both of them. It was up to him to pay back to the world in beauty and caring what Leslie had loaned him in vision and strength."