Endymion Spring

By Matthew Skelton

Book Overview

IN THE DEAD of night, a cloaked figure drags a heavy box through snowcovered streets. The chest can only be opened when the fangs of its serpent's-head clasp taste blood. Centuries later, in an Oxford library, a boy touches a strange book and feels something pierce his finger. The volume is wordless, but fine veins run through its pages, and they seem to quiver, as if alive. Words begin to appear in the book--words only the boy can see.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385734565
• ISBN13: 9780385734561
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Rh Childrens Books
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.2" x 7.9"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

best book

I enjoyed Endymion Spring alot. Like Philip Pullman's series, it's based in Oxford. I'm a girl and I still enjoyed it. Boys and girls should read this book. Go into the past with Endymion Spring as he discovers the book, and go into the future as blake witnesses the book's power. The goes from swithes from old Germany to Oxford as present. Trust me you'll enjoy this book very much

This was great!

I loved this book! It has a unique feel to it as well as a great story line. The book keeps you quessing ever step of the way. The way in which the story laces itself together to make the whole story is briliant! I definately name this as one of my favorites!

Endymion Spring

I am not finished with ENDYMION SPRING but I would surely reccomend it. When Blake finds a blank book that contains a secret- or feeds on children he must make sure the book doesn't fall into the wrong hands. But some of his friends may not last forever...

Really great book

This was a really good book. It is good from the front cover to the back cover. I would recommend this book to anybody who enjoys being "transported" to another time and place through words.

Never Judge a Book by Its Cover - It Can Bite!

Little did Blake know the adventure on which he would be taken when the volume "Endymion Spring" bit him from its shelf at Bodleian Library at Oxford University. Together with his annoyingly precocious sister, Duck, they set out to solve the mystery of a book whose pages are blank to all except Blake who has been chosen by the book. But for what? And who was Endymion Spring? Matthew Skelton has constructed a story to be loved by anyone who loves books. The plot moves between present day Oxford and fifteenth century Germany where Gutenberg has begun to print his now famous bible. While the characters are fairly one dimensional and the writing is plain and straight forward, the story is a wonderful concept mixing scholarly research, the legend of Faust, dragons and above all books. I read it in one sitting, not able to put down. That's about the highest praise I can give book. It kept me completely enthralled the whole time.