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David and the Phoenix

Description

David and the Phoenix is a 1957 children's novel about a young boy's adventures with a Phoenix. It was the first book written by American Edward Ormondroyd, a tale of friendship between two different species, a young boy and a magical bird, beginning with David's education in the ways of the mythical world and ending with the Phoenix's rebirth.

Reviews

Rating: 1 / 5
Date: 2010-08-18
Summary: "Check the Publisher before you buy "David and the Phoenix""

The reviews for "David and the Phoenix" are associated with a number of different imprints of the book available from different Publishers. Unfortunately, some Publishers are unethical to an extreme. A classic example is the reprint published by Books LLC, for which this one star review is reserved.

Books LLC do Print-On-Demand (nothing wrong with that) but the Books LLC version has been put together using automated OCR scanning with NO editing and no quality control whatsover. As some reviwers who've been unfortunate enough to be scammed into buying the Books LLC version have commented, the text is poorly formatted, virtually unreadable in places, there's numerous errors and no chapter headings and certainly no illustrations.

If you read the Books LLC website, you'll see that there, they clearly state there's no editing, the OCR scanning is done by a robot, there may be missing pages, numerous typos can be expected, there are no illustrations, no table of contents etc etc etc. In other words, the Books LLC version is very poor quality el cheapo reprint for much the same price as far better imprints. Your money is far better spent on a good quality imprint of the book. Even second hand is better than the Books LLC rubbish.

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-08-10
Summary: "I LOVED THIS BOOK WHEN I WAS 8YRS OLD"

I loved this book when I was 8 years old. I am now 62 and giving a copy to my 8 year old Grandson.
I am so glad this book is still in print. It is ageless.

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-06-10
Summary: "The images we remember from childhood"

THIS is the version of this book to buy. It has the right pictures inside!

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-03-04
Summary: "SF for adolescent and younger readers"

I bought and read this book as I wanted something that I thought my grand kids might enjoy, although they are still too young for it, they have not entered first grade yet. I enjoyed it and would recommend it for the adolescent and younger age group.

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2009-12-20
Summary: "Authorized edition is available, facsimile of the original 1957 classic!"

Please everyone, consider buying the classic edition (ISBN 1930900015) of David and the Phoenix which we (Purple House Press) republished in 2001 :) It is the ONLY authorized edition in which Edward Ormondroyd (the author!) receives royalties, AND the pages are a facsimile of the original 1957 text including all of the illustrations by Joan Raysor! David and the Phoenix