Epinions Recent Reviews for Katherine Paterson - Bridge to Terabithia

Katherine Paterson - Bridge to Terabithia: Reflections on Paterson's Classic Bridge To Terabithia

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:59:06 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author keithpruitt - Some works become classics. When Katherine Paterson wrote Bridge to Terabithia in 1977 for Harper Trophy, it is without a doubt the case that she was endeavoring to tell a story that children could relate to while weaving other emotions of youth...

Katherine Paterson - Bridge to Terabithia: A Kingdom Where Imagination Rules

Thu, 12 Jul 2007 00:46:43 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author countess_eva - Jess Aarons longs to become the fastest runner in the fifth grade; his otherwise laborious existence is sustained merely with the dreams of grandeur that open before him - - - if only he can win the race held during recess. However, when a new girl...

Katherine Paterson - Bridge to Terabithia: The Bridge between kids and adults

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 16:36:47 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author heathhick - As a youth I loved to spend all of my free time reading as many novels as I could get my hands on. I did not play video games, or want to go to the mall. They simply did not hold my interest like a great book would. When I was twelve, I came across...

Katherine Paterson - Bridge to Terabithia: What a great book

Mon, 9 Apr 2007 18:02:20 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author cradical88 - I decided to read this book after watching the disney movie based on it. I am so glad that i decided to do that. The book is amazing and very emotional, which resulted in me crying while reading it. It was a quick read for me however for children it will...

Katherine Paterson - Bridge to Terabithia: A must read with your children!

Sat, 24 Mar 2007 12:40:25 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author athensmama - Bridge to Terabithia was a favorite of mine as a child. I have just had the pleasure of reading it aloud with my own children. Jess Aarons meets Leslie, a young lady who will forever change to way he views the world around him and interacts with...

Katherine Paterson - Bridge to Terabithia: Rulers of a Whole Secret Country

Mon, 26 Feb 2007 19:06:06 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author panguitch - Katherine Paterson may well be the best living author of realistic children's fiction, but I wouldn't know. I don't often read children's fiction, unless you count the picture books I read with my kids. In fact, I'm the guy who's unimpressed with Harry...

Katherine Paterson - Bridge to Terabithia: Emotional Bridge

Mon, 22 Jan 2007 17:16:21 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author carstairs38 - I got this book when I was in Jr. High but never considered reading it because I'd heard it was a sad story. I only read it now to know if I wanted to join friends in seeing the movie version that comes out next month. While I had heard correctly that...

Katherine Paterson - Bridge to Terabithia: An Ode to the Beauty of Friendship: Bridge to Terabithia

Thu, 28 Sep 2006 17:39:13 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author befus - Oh how I wish that I had found Katherine Paterson's Bridge to Terabithia in my childhood. The Newbery Award winning book was published in 1977, the summer I was nine. And I really needed this book then. I suppose on the face of it, my ninth...

Katherine Paterson - Bridge to Terabithia: Best Children's Book Ever

Fri, 15 Nov 2002 11:59:02 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author playchina - Jess is a fifth-grade boy who knows how to do two things well. Run and draw. The first is a respected thing for a boy in his farm community to do. The second is not.

Leslie is a fifth-grade girl and new to the neighborhood. She spoils...

Katherine Paterson - Bridge to Terabithia: Bridge to Terabithia: A Book About Making Magic Out of the Ordinary

Thu, 25 Apr 2002 13:42:56 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author naphtalia - Jess Aaron is the middle child of the Aaron family, and its only boy. His two oldest sisters are concerned only with themselves, their make-up, their clothes and their boyfriends. His youngest sister is still a toddler and is a cry baby. Everything sets...

Katherine Paterson - Bridge to Terabithia: Turning Tides: Bridge to Terabithia

Wed, 5 Dec 2001 21:37:50 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author robinmichele - The books that mean the most to me are always the hardest to write about.

This is one such book.

It's hard to look beyond the intense visceral connection so that I can tell you why this book is so worthwhile, why everyone...

Katherine Paterson - Bridge to Terabithia: It's never too late to build a bridge to Terabitihia

Thu, 18 Oct 2001 14:32:01 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Redlass - Dear Saralinda*,

Books written by Katherine Paterson tend to make me a bit nervous. I’ll buy the book, knowing that it will be good, but a little apprehensive about the experience of reading it.

You see, Paterson doesn’t shy away...

Katherine Paterson - Bridge to Terabithia: Should be a Classic...

Mon, 4 Dec 2000 01:16:32 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author pantazis5 - This story by Katherine Paterson should become a classic. It is a Newbury Award winning story and if you read it you will understand why.

This story is wholesome and pure and truly exemplifies how children classify themselves within school...

Katherine Paterson - Bridge to Terabithia: In Keanu Reeve's Voice (Whoa!)

Thu, 9 Nov 2000 16:52:58 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author willbradbury - IN MEMORIAM: For Penny, 1980 - 1990, you are missed.

HERE'S THE SKINNY, FATTY

Reading a hippopotamus-huge novel with an abominable ending is like waiting two hours in a line in front of a hotdog stand only, when your turn comes...

Katherine Paterson - Bridge to Terabithia: Ban Bridge to Terabithia? Don't You Dare!

Sat, 30 Sep 2000 22:33:24 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jenninca - I feel it only fair to warn you right now that this review is going to give away the ending to this book. If you don't want to know the ending, please do not continue reading. This has been a public service announcement brought to you courtesy of...

Katherine Paterson - Bridge to Terabithia: Bridge to Terabithia- Banned Book Write-off

Sat, 30 Sep 2000 17:14:31 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author teskue - This is a story of a boy- a boy who is a "diamond in the rough." A heart of an artist trapped in a squalid world. And, a glimpse of a moment in his life, when he sees what it is like to be with like minded people.

Jess lives in a...

Katherine Paterson - Bridge to Terabithia: Fantasy vs Reality

Tue, 13 Jun 2000 00:14:04 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Sierra_22 - At some point in all of our lives, we've probably wanted to live somewhere other than where we were and it was most likely a place that didn't really exist. When I read A Bridge to Terabithia, I could completely understand the main character's desire to...

Katherine Paterson - Bridge to Terabithia: Crossing the Bridge

Wed, 7 Jun 2000 21:50:35 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Teach2755 - If you are in search of high-quality children's literature, please add this book to your list of 'must-reads'. There are few books that can grab the reader's emotions and attentions from the first page; this book succeeds in doing just that.

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Katherine Paterson - Bridge to Terabithia: Bridge Over Troubled Water

Sat, 11 Mar 2000 22:36:42 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author bilbopooh - When ten-year-old Jess meets Leslie, the girl who has moved in next door, he isn't exactly thrilled. After all, he's been practicing all summer to be the fastest runner in the fifth grade, and she shows up and immediately beats him in a race. But she...

Katherine Paterson - Bridge to Terabithia: Exceptional Children's Fiction

Tue, 18 Jan 2000 23:04:25 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author francesca57 - My daughter read Bridge to Terabithia in the fourth grade. She was deeply moved by the book, and it made her an instant Katherine Patterson fan. Bridge seemed to light a fire under her, a burning love of reading, which continues to this day. When I...

Katherine Paterson - Bridge to Terabithia: It made the boys cry

Fri, 14 Jan 2000 00:38:48 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author waaa3 - Waaay back when I was in 6th grade, our wonderful teacher read this to us. Honestly, the thing I remember most of all, even more than the story, was that it made the boys in the class cry. I can vividly remember noticing that a boy looked like he was...