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Voyage of the Basset
Thor's Hammer
The Norse gods are in an uproar--Thor's hammer has been stolen! The goddess Freyja has foreseen that a human boy will help find the hammer; the Basset sails into the mortal world to find him. But when the Basset returns, it carries not one boy, but four--all of whom must change if they are to fulfill Freyja's prophecy and save the gods from destruction.
212 pages, Paperback
First published December 26, 2000
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July 7, 2022
4 stars - English Ebook
This book is a departure for a writer who has made a career of making departures, from the ultra-subtle fantastical memoir. This, Shetterly's first children's book, concerns three boys from a fascinating milieu, turn of the century San Francisco.
An Irish immigrant working in a realistically brutal factory, a black orphan with nothing left but his elderly dog, and a Chinese boy who dreams of being a pirate king end up in... the land of Norse Gods. The Gods have a mission for one of them, but they're not sure which.
The answers as to which boy is important, and why none of them are Norse, are quite clever. It's true, little action actually takes place aboard the Basset, but as I found Asgard and 1895 San Francisco at least as interesting a venue, if not more, that didn't bother me.
In fact, if Shetterly ever writes a book set solely in the historic San Francisco he recreates here so vividly, I'd buy it... even if it didn't involve elves, Norse Gods, magic, or the Basset.
This book is a departure for a writer who has made a career of making departures, from the ultra-subtle fantastical memoir. This, Shetterly's first children's book, concerns three boys from a fascinating milieu, turn of the century San Francisco.
An Irish immigrant working in a realistically brutal factory, a black orphan with nothing left but his elderly dog, and a Chinese boy who dreams of being a pirate king end up in... the land of Norse Gods. The Gods have a mission for one of them, but they're not sure which.
The answers as to which boy is important, and why none of them are Norse, are quite clever. It's true, little action actually takes place aboard the Basset, but as I found Asgard and 1895 San Francisco at least as interesting a venue, if not more, that didn't bother me.
In fact, if Shetterly ever writes a book set solely in the historic San Francisco he recreates here so vividly, I'd buy it... even if it didn't involve elves, Norse Gods, magic, or the Basset.
January 13, 2010
Another book about "Gods"! I was not into the book at first, but it pulled me into it at the chapter "The Storm".
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