Welcome to the Theatre Illuminata, where the actors backstage and the characters onstage are one and the same, where you can find Ophelia, Macbeth, Tatania, Peter Pan, and many others, where The Book holds the characters and the Theatre together, and where seventeen year-old Beatrice Shakespear Smith lives. Bertie has lived at the Theatre Illumiata for her entire life, painting the stage which is her bedroom, dying her hair all the colors of the rainbow, playing with fairies, pirates, and all the other characters, and causing mischief and mayhem. Now, if she doesn't do something, Bertie may lose her home and friends forever. I, as always, loved Bertie and her fairy sidekicks, Cobweb, Moth, Mustardseed, and Peaseblossom, adored the Theatre Illuminata, and devoured Eyes Like Stars. Gorgeous, funny, and simply wonderful, Eyes Like Stars is such a good book. Fans of Lesley Livingston's Wondrous Strange will love Lisa Mantchev's debut novel.
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Eyes Like Stars
Lisa Mantchev
Welcome to the Theatre Illuminata, where the actors backstage and the characters onstage are one and the same, where you can find Ophelia, Macbeth, Tatania, Peter Pan, and many others, where The Book holds the characters and the Theatre together, and where seventeen year-old Beatrice Shakespear Smith lives. Bertie has lived at the Theatre Illumiata for her entire life, painting the stage which is her bedroom, dying her hair all the colors of the rainbow, playing with fairies, pirates, and all the other characters, and causing mischief and mayhem. Now, if she doesn't do something, Bertie may lose her home and friends forever. I, as always, loved Bertie and her fairy sidekicks, Cobweb, Moth, Mustardseed, and Peaseblossom, adored the Theatre Illuminata, and devoured Eyes Like Stars. Gorgeous, funny, and simply wonderful, Eyes Like Stars is such a good book. Fans of Lesley Livingston's Wondrous Strange will love Lisa Mantchev's debut novel.
Welcome to the Theatre Illuminata, where the actors backstage and the characters onstage are one and the same, where you can find Ophelia, Macbeth, Tatania, Peter Pan, and many others, where The Book holds the characters and the Theatre together, and where seventeen year-old Beatrice Shakespear Smith lives. Bertie has lived at the Theatre Illumiata for her entire life, painting the stage which is her bedroom, dying her hair all the colors of the rainbow, playing with fairies, pirates, and all the other characters, and causing mischief and mayhem. Now, if she doesn't do something, Bertie may lose her home and friends forever. I, as always, loved Bertie and her fairy sidekicks, Cobweb, Moth, Mustardseed, and Peaseblossom, adored the Theatre Illuminata, and devoured Eyes Like Stars. Gorgeous, funny, and simply wonderful, Eyes Like Stars is such a good book. Fans of Lesley Livingston's Wondrous Strange will love Lisa Mantchev's debut novel.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
aren't all of the fairies listed from Shakespeare's play, 'a midsummer nights dream'?
ReplyDeletehaha! Bertie... what a cute nickname!
Umm,yeah, I think so. She does live in a magical theatre after all. Yeah, Bertie is a cute nickname!
ReplyDelete