Stoneheart

The Stoneheart Trilogy, Book One

By: Charlie Fletcher

Narrated by: Jim Dale

Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins

Publisher's summary

A city has many lives and layers. London has more than most. Not all the layers are underground, and not all the lives belong to the living. A 12-year-old boy named George Chapman is about to find this out the hard way. On a school trip he's punished for something he didn't do. In a tiny act of rebellion, he lashes out at a small carving on the wall - unexpectedly breaking it off. And then something horrible does happen: a stone pterodactyl unpeels form the wall and starts chasing him. George is already running before his mind starts trying to tell him that this is impossible!

©2010 Charlie Fletcher (P)2010 Scholastic Audio

If you are an adult reader you may not find it eng

I would think it would be good for children but was slow to start and the plot was sorry of thin Courtney to other like books.

Great Story

You can't go wrong with a Jim Dale performance! Great story, can't wait for #2

A Fantasy Lover's Delight!

How fun is this! As a tried and true lover of fantasy, I find so many new "fantasy" books poor imitations of their predecessors. But Stoneheart is different, fun, entertaining. I guess its considered a "kids" book but I left my teenager years behind a few decades ago and I thoroughly enjoyed this book and can't wait to listen to the other two. As an added bonus, it's read by Jim Dale, who read the Harry Potter books-- He's fantastic!

Fantastical

I was pleasantly surprised at how good this series is. People who like the Harry Potter type books with magical happenings and a clear division of dark and light should enjoy these books. They are very well writen with a glorious use of vocabulary and are narrated by the splendid and most talneted Jim Dale (who also reads the US version of Harry Potter).

The premis of the books is around a London most of us cannot see and how two human children can. They are hurled together in this otehr dimension of London where all the statues are animated and divided into very clear sides. The main Villan is quite comparable in the evil stakes to Voldemort and the the evoluation of the main protagonist is most enjoyable. The back up the children receive from the Gunner, a war veteran still speaking and acting from is time frame is the biggest lightening rod conducting the reader to anchor to these set of books.

It does seem to have an super long, never ending, chase going on. But it is peppered with so many characters and different twists and turns it keeps you interested and invested.

I will never feel the same when I walk around London or any big City with statues again.

Jim Dale rocks!

Great story and even better read in the wonderful manner of Jim Dale! Thanks, I needed that!

listen to this over and over!

love the writer and narrator. the story is gripping and wanting more. your always asking 'what happens next?'

great performance!

jim dale does another winderful job! I cant wait to listen to the next book in the series

Great start to a new series.

Jim Dale brings this to life with his fantastic story telling. Grabbed my attention from the first word to the last. Good story, very descriptive and I can't wait to hear the next one in this series.

There is no end only the beginning.

Where does Stoneheart rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

This is a good series, not as strong as Rick Riordan's multiple series but good!The first book took time to build the concept and the characters. We felt that the book didn't really end and left lots of questions. I am glad we were on a long car trip and we had both books one and two. I would have been irritated if I had not had the second book to jump into. But a good time over all. By the way the second book feels more like an ending to a segment of a continuing story.

What did you like best about this story?

The concept of the statues coming to life. Though I believe (as an artist) that the artist infuses personality into each creation not just the ones in human form.

What does Jim Dale bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

Jim Dale for me brings accents and dialects to the reading of the story. I would have had no idea how the dialects changed from character to character without him (having grown up in Texas). He reads and performs well!

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

yes. At the time it seems like a simple act.. but later in the story you find out how selfless it was.

Any additional comments?

Book 2 is a good stopping point. We will be getting book 3 soon.

A little disappointed...:(

I thought the beginning was great! But the story itself wasn't a good plot. Of course I knew through out the book what George needed to do to make his amends with the Taints so that bugged a lot. Good detail. Not the greatest book. Didn't like it as much as I thought I would.