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| Original Title: | Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang |
| ISBN: | 0887766862 (ISBN13: 9780887766862) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Jacob Two-Two #1 |
| Literary Awards: | CLA Book of the Year for Children Award (1976), Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Award (1976) |
Mordecai Richler
Paperback | Pages: 87 pages Rating: 3.9 | 1772 Users | 104 Reviews
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| Title | : | Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang (Jacob Two-Two #1) |
| Author | : | Mordecai Richler |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 87 pages |
| Published | : | September 2nd 2003 by Tundra Books (NY) (first published January 1st 1975) |
| Categories | : | Childrens. Cultural. Canada. Fiction. Fantasy. Classics |
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We all grew up with television, right? I still remember when I was a 5-y/o toddler and I was sitting on the floor right in front of our black-and-white television. I was watching a belly dancer and my parents and siblings were laughing because I was having a hard-on.I also remember the many times that my mother asked us not to watch too close to the TV screen as the radiation it can damage our eyes. So, when I became a father, I said the same thing to my daughter. We all tend to tell to our children those things that we heard from our parents when we were young. We sometimes take those as bible-truths without asking why. I remembered this while reading this classic children’s book, Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang (1975) because the main protagonist, Jacob says everything twice because he thinks that his parents and four older siblings do not hear him if he says what he wants to say only once.
Mordecai Richler (1931-2001) was a Canadian Jewish author, screenwriter and essayist. His 1989 novel Solomon Gursky Was Here was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1990. However, his most popular book seems to be Barney’s Version released in 1997, that was an autobiography by Barney Panofsky recounting his life in varying detail with the ending having Alzheimer’s Disease. In an interview before his death in 2001, he said that his original goal was only to have at least one book that would honestly portray the difficulties they faced by Jewish minorities in Montreal in the 30’s and 40’s. He ended up writing a lot of known and bestselling books, movie scripts and has been recognized as one of the writers who made relevance to Canada’s history as a nation.
When Jacob is imprisoned with scary Hooded Fang as the warden, he does not feel afraid because he thinks that Hooded Fang is, deep inside, a good man. This reminded me of the good-natured Jewish people in concentration camps during that Holocaust who clung to their hopes that the German camp leaders still had goodness in their hearts despite the blatant atrocities that they were doing. Richler’s Jewish parents fled Europe before he was born but still he suffered being ostracized in downtown Montreal while he was growing up.
While reading the book, I tried thinking what could I have felt following the adventures or misadventures of Jacob Two-Two. He is helpless and lost when he is persecuted getting a prison sentence of 2 years, 3 months, 2 weeks and 2 minutes. He must have felt really sad while being brought to the Children Prison hundreds of miles away from the civilization. However, he must still be hopeful because his elder brother and sister gave him a tracker so that he could be rescued later. So, there is still hope that is probably similar to the hope that the Jewish people kept in the hearts while suffering inside the concentration camps.
So, why do children stay too close to the TV while watching? Child psychologists say that it is because their surroundings are noisy and they are very interested on what they are watching. So, they go near the TV so as not to be distracted. Funny, right? If we see them too close to the TV, we tell them repeatedly to sit stay away from the screen or else their eyes would be damaged. Then because of our noisy nagging, they would go nearer. So, it becomes a chicken-and-egg thing. The trick is to be silent, give them space and let them enjoy the show. Having your son with a hard-on is normal be it in the morning when he wakes up or while watching a TV show with a bevy of dancing beauties.
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Loved this book as a kidI'll admit right from the start, I'm totally biased when it comes to this children's novel. I remember days long passed when we had the audio version of this book (on tape cassettes), and we would sit in front of the tape player, me, my sister, and my dad, and listen to this book over and over again. Reading this book again, as an adult, brought back all of those fond memories, and for that reason, it is hard to say whether I love this story for what it is, or for what it reminds me of.But, with
I inherited my love of reading from my mother. I would marvel at her bookshelves, and I could always find her at the end of the couch, unsweetened ice tea in hand, nose in her latest paperback. Mom would sometimes take me to the library, which beat Disney World any day. I could get lost in that place, thumbing through books and exploring shelves. I recall the afternoon she brought Jacob Two-Two home for me. I was stoked that the main character had my name. The book seemed gigantic, and the
I remember very clearly ordering and receiving this book through my primary school book club ... and to this day, this little book is one of my most treasured possessions ... granted it's well loved and a little worn around the edges - but so am Ias a kid I was completely enthralled by the story ... incensed at the injustice of the grown ups ... appalled at just how mean Master Fish and Mistress Fowl could be ... chuffed at Shapiro & O'Toole's bravado ... frightened (but only a little) of
Enjoyable, but I had to read it my daughter as quite a few of the words were too hard for her.
We loved to read this book out loud to the girls and once, a few years back, Christopher Plummer came to Stratford and read this book (with the illustrations projected on to a screen behind him) to support a charity that I've forgotten. I bought tickets to take my mother and the girls. My mother fell asleep, my oldest daughter squirmed but our youngest daughter - probably 4 or 5 at the time - loved it. She loved it and laughed louder than most of the people in the audience. I remember that event
A strange but likeable and well-written children's book, also it's really nostalgic, I remember reading this in the first grade and I really enjoyed its creative storytelling and funny illustrations.
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