Book Title:
Ophelia and The Marvelous Boy
Book Author:
Karen Foxlee
Age Group For This Book:
Age 7-9
Review From:
Tipperary
Ophelia and the Marvellous Boy is a story based on the fairy tale, Snow Queen. It is about the same thing, killing the Snow Queen. The difference is the way they do it.
Ophelia and her family are going to a museum because her father has a special job. The reason he got the job was because he was a sword expert. Ophelia finds a room of stone angels and then found a grey door. She went inside to a sea monster mosaic which had another door. She peeked through the keyhole and found another eye staring at her she fell with surprise. The eye belonged to a boy. The boy asked her to help him.
She had to go to the seventh floor carefully without waking up the misery birds, get a key and bring it to him. Next she had to open a box with the key to get another key on the sixth floor. She opened the door with that key.
They were running around the museum to try find a sword that Ophelia was supposed to wield to defeat the snow queen. The boy gets caught; she tries to find him but cannot until the keeper of the boy who was a very nice man at heart but not on the outside tells her where he is. On the way her father gives it to her, not knowing what power it wields. The sword was also very heavy to anyone except from her. The boy was underneath some snow. She fought the snow queen and won
THE END
Star Rating:
★★★★★
= Brilliant