Zathura

Such a good book!

J'ai reçu un album en langue anglaise alors que ce n'était précisé nulle part!! Je suis déçue par ce manque d'information.

A beautifully written and illustrated book. An absolute joy.

My kid loves anything space-related. After watching the movie Zathura for the millionth time, I tried to get him to watch its predacessor, Jumanji, and he really couldn't be bothered with it because... no space stuff. So we checked out the book, Zathura, and he was hooked. We checked it out so many times, they told us we had to stop for at least a two-week cycle every month so someone else could read it. After searching for months at used and new bookstores, I just ordered it from Amazon. The story revolves around Danny and Walter, two brothers who are constantly fighting and bickering. After tusseling in the park on the way home, one of them finds an old board game box next to a tree with the word "Jumanji" printed on it. It had been left there by Peter and Judy after their adventures in the original book of the same name. Walter and Danny take it home, and when they find the jungle board game a bit too immature, they magically find another board wedged into the bottom of the box. One with spaceships and aliens printed on it. You can probably guess where it goes from there -- the boys take turns trying to reach the planet Zathura to get home, while everything from meteors to lizard aliens to a homicidal robot destroys their house around them. As always, the illustrations are beautiful and somewhat wistful, in the same odd way that Van Allburg's other books tend to be.

used this a writing stimulus after reading Jumanji to my class. The children didn't enjoy as much as Jumanji but were glad to have read it and liked that the main characters were the Budwing Boys. Decided that the game changed everytime someone new found it