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by: Monica Furlong
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
EAN: 9780375815157
ISBN: 0375815155
Label: Laurel Leaf
Manufacturer: Laurel Leaf
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: February 22, 2005
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Sales Rank: 622657
Studio: Laurel Leaf
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Product Description:
Set in very early Christian times, Colman is a spellbinding fantasy of a faraway age, when the mystical and the commonplace walked hand in hand. The healer, Juniper, and her apprentice, Wise Child, are accused of witchcraft and forced to flee their small town. Wise Child’s devoted cousin, Colman, escapes with them. This is his story of their arrival to the land of Juniper’s birth, where she is, in fact, a princess.
From the Hardcover edition.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Just on a soapbox!
I would just like to say how disgusted I am at the price of this used book!
First of all, it does not have the caliber of the first two books!
And second, I can't believe that there are such greedy people on this wonderful website that try to ruin a child's chances of owning a book in a series by pricing the books outrageously!
You used sellers should be ASHAMED!
As soon as I saw this, I found it on another website for 3.99 and I quickly purchased ... Read More
Rating: - Lacks the interest mystique of the previous books, but provides a solid conclusion to the plot. Only recommended as a sequel
The sequel to Wise Child and Juniper, Colman follows the lives of these three characters as they flee from Wise Child's childhood home to Juniper's childhood home of Cornwall, only to find Juniper's aunt has murdered her parents, the king and queen, and taken her brother, the prince, as a prisoner. Wise Child and Colman, with the help of the leper Cormac, must infiltrate the enemy stronghold, discover the prince's affiliation, and find a way to rescue the prince and the kingdom by defeating Meroot and ... Read More
Rating:  - Don't trust the beautiful cover
The cover is gorgeous, but the book was bland and boring. the characters were all the same; the dialogue was so wooden it drove me up the wall. the characters talked like a textbook. the kids used the same exact voice as the adults. the entire book is so over-simplified and over-explained that i felt like i was reading a paticularly boring school book for first-graders. here's a quotation (colman narrates): "I could not get away from the feeling that Wise Child was angry with me. This made me sad because ... Read More
Rating:  - Such a dramatic difference in style from previous work.
This book did not nearly rise to the quality of 'Juniper' and 'Wisechild'. It seems to lack knowledge of the context, which is very unlike the prior books. It almost seems to have been written in a different voice. Ahem. In my opinion.
Rating: - who wrote it?
I find it very hard to believe that Monica Furlong wrote Coleman- none of the characters is in character, so to speak, the "magic" is less than weak, and the pleasant outlook on life in the present is entirely missing.
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