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Simon, Jane and Barney, enlisted by their mysterious great uncle, arrive in a small coastal town to help recover a priceless golden grail stolen by the forces of evil, the Dark. They are not at first aware of the strange powers of another boy brought to help, Will Stanton-- nor of the sinister significance of the Greenwitch, an image of leaves and branches that for centuries has been cast into the sea for good luck in fishing and harvest. Their search for the grail sets into motion a series of disturbing, sometimes dangerous events that, at their climax, bring forth a gift that, for a time at least, will keep the Dark from rising.
- Sales Rank: #8378488 in Books
- Published on: 2000-10
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x 5.25" w x .75" l,
- Binding: Turtleback
From School Library Journal
Grades 4-7--In this third book in Susan Cooper's Dark Is Rising sequence (McElderry, 1985), Simon, Jane, and Barney return to Cornwall with their Uncle Merry after learning that the grail they had found in Over Sea, Under Stone (Harcourt, 1966) has been stolen from the British Museum. Will Stanton and his American uncle come to Cornwall as well, and initially there is some tension between the children. The locals are preparing for a celebration in which the women fashion a being from sticks and leaves and toss it into the sea. Jane's kindness wins the favor of this mystical effigy and it yields its secret the manuscript that will make it possible to decipher the writing on the grail. Although the grail has been stolen by the Dark, it is found and the writing proves to be the prophetic rhyme whose words will be fulfilled in the next books. The story requires some knowledge of the previous books, and only becomes complete after reading the subsequent books. This exciting and beautifully written story is filled with magic and mystery. It is unfortunate that the man who stole the grail identifies himself as part Romany, or Gypsy, thus reinforcing a negative stereotype. Alec Jennings does a superb job of reading this tale, as he has done with the first two books in the series. His expression and pacing suit the story well, and he is at ease with Cornish names and words. There are two places where editing cuts words short: when Merry tells the children to "look it up" it sounds like "crit up," and when the thief tells Barney to "open the box" it sounds like "pen the box." These quibbles aside, the technical quality is excellent. Libraries in which this series is popular will want this recording if they are buying the others in the sequence. Otherwise, The Dark Is Rising (Aug. 1999, p. 68) and The Grey King (Oct. 2001, p. 89) are more vital purchases.
Louise L. Sherman, formerly Anna C. Scott School
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
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From the Publisher
Simon, Jane and Barney, enlisted by their mysterious great uncle, arrive in a small coastal town to help recover a priceless golden grail stolen by the forces of evil, the Dark. They are not at first aware of the strange powers of another boy brought to help, Will Stanton -- nor of the sinister significance of the Greenwitch, an image of leaves and branches that for centuries has been cast into the sea for good luck in fishing and harvest.
Their search for the grail sets into motion a series of disturbing, sometimes dangerous events that, at their climax, bring forth a gift that, for a time at least, will keep the Dark from rising.
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18 of 22 people found the following review helpful.
Book One continued
By Amanda Richards
The third continues from Book one
Along the Cornish shore
With Simon, Jane and Barney Drew
And Merriman once more
Someone's made off with the Grail
It's got to be the Dark
This time Will Stanton's in the mix
And Barney makes his mark
The Grail requires a secret code
To understand the writing
This fell into the deep blue sea
while Light and Dark were fighting
The Greenwitch claims a soggy prize
They need to get it back
While Jane tries her best to be nice
The Dark starts to attack
A lone dark minion on a quest
Gets greedy with his role
He stirs up all the Wild Magic
Before losing control
Will they locate the precious Grail
And break its ancient code?
And will the Greenwitch be appeased
Surrendering her load
For younger fans of fantasy
This series is a must
So go tell your Librarian
"Susan Cooper - or bust!"
Amanda Richards, January 26, 2006
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
On Greenwitch time
By E. R. Bird
Let's carefully examine the fantasy series books that are considered classical literature appropriate for adults as well. You have your "Lord of the Rings" and your "His Dark Materials" series by Philip Pullman. And between these two greats we have sandwiched in the center the "Dark Is Rising" books by Susan Cooper. Dark is the right word for them too. Belying their ridiculous Aladdin Paperback covers (The paperback of "Greenwitch" shows a kindly, albeit green, old grandmother rather than an untamed featureless product of Wild Magic) the books cull Celtic tradition, English myth, and Gaelic and Welsh influences to produce a series that is so fully original and intelligent that it is all a person can do not to force it into the hands of every fantasy-luvin Harry Potterite. "Greenwitch", the third in the series, brings together characters we've met in separate novels and does so with dexterous skill.
When Simon, Jane, and Barney found the Trewissick Grail in, "Over Sea, Under Stone", they never expected it to disappear so quickly. But disappear it has and from a national museum no less. Of course, without the lead case that translates the words on the Grail, the object in and of itself is of little use. Now their great-uncle Merriman has decided to take them back to Trewissick in search of the item, and with them comes a new addition. Young Will Stanton appears to the other kids to be a likable but slightly stupid young addition to their crew. Unbeknownst of them, of course, he's an Old One like Merriman and has powers far beyond their understanding. Together, these stalwart five will do battle with an emissary of the Dark, utter prophecies, and meet representatives of the Wild Magic. And none are quite so wild as the impressive Greenwitch herself.
When I was a kid there was nothing I hated more than to read the first book in a series (such as "The Wizard of Oz") then move on to the second book and find that characters I loved in the first (like Dorothy) were nowhere to be seen. Yet I didn't really dislike this fact when it came to "The Dark Is Rising". In the first book "Over Sea, Under Stone" we meet the Drew children, Simon, Jane, and Barney. We also meet their mysterious great-uncle Merriman. In the second book "The Dark Is Rising" the Drews are nowhere to be seen but Merriman's back and so is our hero Will Stanton. So when all four kids meet up in "Greenwitch" it feels especially satisfying. Like you're in for the extra special treat of watching the normal children (who take an instant disliking to Will) interact with a fellow who is without age. I particularly loved the moments when it was clear that Will was a kind of superhero at times. Jane's the only one who picks up on this at the beginning, but Simon and Barney definitely have it knocked into their skulls by the end. Interestingly, the book mostly takes the point of view of the Drews. In "The Dark Is Rising" we were privy to Will's thoughts and feelings. Now he's become almost as withdrawn and mysterious as Merriman, closing out not only the other kids but the readers as well.
One thing that Cooper does in the books (and this is the same objection I had to the end of fellow fabulous Celtic fantasy novel "The Hounds of the Morrigan") is that the good guys (i.e. The Light) are able to make the children forget things. So when Jane asks Merriman if he has "magicked" her brothers to sleep and he replies, "Nothing has been done to any of you, or will be", he's not being completely honest. Something has been done to the kids. They've been told to forget something earlier in the book that would have disturbed them. It seems an odd thing to happen to our heroes. After all, what good are allies if you keep on messing about with their memories? Or are they trying to preserve some odd notion of childhood innocence? Whatever the case, I could do without it. Cooper also has never quite grasped the importance of humor. Unlike Lloyd Alexander's, "Prydain Chronicles" (or "Harry Potter" for that matter) she uses it scantily at best. Her other books (like the lovely "Boggart" duo) are a little better, but definitely don't expect "Greenwitch" to be some kind of laugh riot. We're looking at vast prophecies and the potential end of the world here, people. No giggling please.
Aside from that, the book is incredibly readable. Of course, if the child you hand it to hasn't read the first two books, it might still grab their attention. Just not as closely. And Cooper has a fondness for description that definitely turned me off as a child (I would skim for pages and pages until I reach an island of dialogue, thereby completely missing 75% of the plot). So get ready for some well-written if wordy descriptions in this puppy as well. It makes for a fine addition to the series and a fine read too.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
The third volume in THE DARK IS RISING Sequence
By Michele L. Worley
"Power from the green witch, lost beneath the sea..."
- from a prophecy outlining the quests within this series
Although GREENWITCH is the third of the five books within this series, it is more nearly a sequel to the first book than the second because in a way it is a completion of the individual quest begun in OVER SEA, UNDER STONE. GREENWITCH could be read without having read the second book, although having done so will give the reader a truer perspective on one of the characters introduced in that book.
Like each of the other books in the series, GREENWITCH manages to inject new complications into the six main characters' relationships with one another. At this point, five of the six have been introduced (the three Drews and Merriman Lyon in the first book, Will Stanton in the second), but the Drews have never met Will, and as his presence is not explained to them, they naturally resent him a great deal at first as an unwelcome intruder (unaware that he knows more about what's going on than they do, despite how matters appear on the surface). The presence of the Drews makes the story particularly enjoyable, as they provide a genuine Everyman point of view amid all the mysteries of this series of quests and battles against the Dark, in contrast to the equally interesting but different perspective of the more knowledgeable and powerful characters.
In a way, the story picks up exactly where the first book ended, but in a very different mood - the Drews are standing in the same place in the British Museum and looking at the same thing, but in dejection rather than triumph. For the Trewissick grail discovered in the first book has been stolen by a mysterious agent of the Dark, who hopes to complete the quest left unfinished the previous summer, an agent about whom even Merriman and Will know very little.
As in each book in the series, this quest takes place at one of the great festivals of the Celtic year, here the spring festival still observed in Trewissick by the making of the Greenwitch, a great leafy image made by the village women in a single night and ceremonially thrown into the sea upon the fishermen's return at dawn. Unknown to the villagers, the Greenwitch belongs to the Wild Magic, a force not allied to either the Light or the Dark in their long struggle, and of which we have seen little in the series up to this point.
And the Greenwitch - which awakens each year after being given to the sea, and has a brief, independent, and immensely lonely existence before being swept out to the deeps - has its own agenda, which like the Wild Magic is independent of the needs and desires of either Light or Dark, and like it must be persuaded rather than compelled to cooperate. The Greenwitch's character is particularly compelling - it depends on humans for its very existence, but its few days of independent life each year are so bitterly lonely that it easily feels resentment against everything else in the world, for allowing it to be made and then cast out uncomforted.
Most unfortunately for both sides, the lost portion of the object of power known as the Trewissick grail - lost even when the grail itself was first found - has entered the sea, making it subject to a power indifferent to their war. Worse, it lies dangerously near the Greenwitch's temporary resting place, in the control of a creature whose inherent wildness coupled with its bitter feelings makes it very dangerous to approach.
This book is well worth reading, and doesn't suffer from being the middle portion of a longer story. While it is best read after reading the story to date, it is in itself an important quest, and achieves a great thing (though the greatest achievement in the story may not be what the reader was expecting). Furthermore, in addition to showing us the Wild Magic as yet another side and another perspective to the great magical forces that operate mostly outside human awareness, this book adds a twist in the form of the Dark's mysterious agent, whose character is very distinct from those of the great lords who tend to be the Dark's representatives in other books, and who thus gives us a new perspective on the Light's ancient enemy.
In addition to the book itself, I highly recommend the unabridged audio edition read by Alex Jennings. Hearing the voices of the Cornish characters in particular is a treat.
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