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Having turned their railroad engine into a boat and set sail for adventure because their island has become too crowded, Jim Button and Luke try to rescue the kidnapped Princess of China from Dragontown.
- Sales Rank: #3632066 in Books
- Published on: 1990-07-27
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x 6.00" w x 1.00" l,
- Binding: Hardcover
- 240 pages
From School Library Journal
Grade 4-8-- Despite the appeal of Ende's Momo and The Neverending Story to Disney Studios--they made a movie of both-- Jim Button is standard fare for its fantasy type. Emma, an antique, anthropomorphic steam engine, carries Luke, the engineer; and Jim Button, a small black boy, on a fairy-tale search and rescue mission for a Chinese princess. The three travel from Morrowland, an island nation so small its king thinks one more subject (Jim) will crowd the place, through China to find Princess Li Si in Dragontown of Sorrowland. Emma, who may well be mother of "The Little Engine That Could," is the best drawn character. Overmuch description and cutesy comment make pages--but not much interest. Of course, some readers will throw their hats in the air and shout with joy--as do many characters in this story; others will bless the relief given by the many inserted drawings. --George Gleason, Department of English, Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Language Notes
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
The book of my life
By Flash
When I was but a little child, my mother read this book to me. She also read other books, but mostly, I insisted we return to this. Later I was so annoyed I had to wait until the evening to have another chapter read to me, that I taught myself to read, in order to be able to read it myself. I had read both Jim Button books front to back before I even entered school.
My life changed, my tastes changed, but Jim Button always stayed with me. I was a child, I read Jim Button. I was a pubescent teenager, I read Jim Button. I was a partying student, I read Jim Button. I'm writing a PhD thesis, and I'm reading Jim Button.
I have read many hundred books in my life. I have read pulp fantasy and nobel prize literature. Some books I reread two or three times, but nothing comes close to the Jim Button books that I read so often I cannot even remember. I know absolutely everything that happens in these books, I can quote entire passages by heart, but each time I read it, I enjoy it as much as I did when I was a child.
But why are these books so great? First, there is the outer side of it. These books have everything that a boy - and a man who has not forgotten his inner child - loves. There are dragons and pirates and steam engines. Kings and princesses, giants and half dragons! Steam engines that have their own mind and can get children. Steam engines that can swim. Steam engines that can fly. And steam engines that dress up as dragons! I mean, seriously, it cannot get any better than that. And all the while it is not a silly fantasy book where steam engines can fly "because they can", no there is a logical explanation for everything. For a child, these books are just plain fun. I remember how I hated it, when a children's book tried to shove a message down my throat. Today I notice that these books, while being charmingly politically incorrect (publisher's possibly wouldn't dare publish it these days), these books teach more about friendship, tolerance and bravery than all of today's politically correct and educationally valuable children's books.
But apart from the content being great, the book is also written extremely well. It takes children seriously. I remember well, how some children's book authors obviously think children were dumb. Not so Michael Ende. The language (at least in the German version) is extremely good, and of better quality than many "serious" books I have read. Michael Ende does not shy away from using advanced words, but works in little explanations for the children. Every character in the book has his or her unique way of speaking and you recognize everyone's style immediately. Additionally, the books are well thought out from start to finish. Michael Ende in this children's book achieves what many "adult" fantasy author's never manage: There is a plot that arches both books in the series. Additionally each book has its own subplot. Each chapter has its own subplot again. And everything fits together intricately and is wrapped up nicely. Of all the books I have read very few are so perfectly crafted regarding both plot and language.
With all that said, I want to add a large thank you to Michael Ende for enkindling my love for books. And if you have children, I urge you to read Jim Button to them. I guarantee that they will love it.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
Fantastic, fun and deeper than it seems
By Amazon Customer
I love this book, I mean, my little daughter, 6, loves it :-)
Michael Ende was a master, perhaps "the" master would be more accurate, at crafting children's books that give the parents something to think about as well.
The most important thing about Jim Knopf (I've only read it in the original German) is of course that it's FUN. I can't imagine any kid not being totally engrossed in the story once it starts. Chapter for chapter, the story moves very quickly from one adventure to the next, always building up just the right amount of tension and suspense without ever becomming gratuitously shocking.
The story itself is about as original possible, it's all Michael Ende's imagination and there are no clichés, no "been there, done that" material. Of course, I can't speak for the english translation, but the language used by Ende in the original is a little advanced for really small kids. Personally, I see it a chance to "smarten up" as opposed to the usual "dumbing down" found in most (all?) modern children's books.
Like I said above, there's more to Jim Button than is first apparent. One example, among many: the Dragon City. I don't know how it's expressed in the English version but in the original, the dragons are mean and cruel and dirty and... UNHAPPY. Their secret wish is to be "saved" from the evil of their city and to become re-born as the "Golden Drangon of Wisdom". They are literally awaiting a "Saviour" and Frau Mahlzahn (the dragon that held the children captive, don't know her english name) is not so much "captured" in the way a superficial reading of the book would suggest but rather saved. She is transported through the cleansing waters of the Yellow River where her fire goes out and her evil spirit is extinguished. This is a baptism, and on a very grand scale.
Another: The "Scheinriese", the Giant who apears bigger and scarier the further away you are from him. When I read this part to my daughter, she said, "It's sort of like my swimming class". I thought, "Huh, how'd you get so smart?". She made the connection herself. Her first two swimming lesson have been horrifying for her, even though they're really completely harmless fun and the instructors are wonderfully gentle and patient. So, she recognized that sometimes things seem a lot scarier before we actually confront them and that most fear exists in our imagination and it can overcome. Rarely is anything as bad as we think it's going to be.
Michael Ende was in a class by himself. He wrote serious literature that also appeals to children. He invented a genre and he was the master. Although his other books are more "mature" than this one, Jim Button and Luke remain my, yes, my :-) favorite.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Children's fantasy
By Britt Arnhild Lindland
Ask readers what they connect with fantasy books for children, and most will come up with the answer Harry Potter. But there were fantasy books before Harry came. The German writer Michael Ende is one of the many writers who have written wonderful stories, both for children and for grown ups. The story about Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver is one of them.
Luke lives on a tiny, tiny island together with just a handful of other people. One day the postman arrives with a very special delivery, a small packet containing an even smaller little boy. The boy remains at the island and gets the name Jim Button.
Everybody loves Jim, but when he growns bigger the island becomes too small for the people living there. Luke decides that he is the one who has to go, toether with his tank engine. Jim goes with him, in secret, and from here on the adventures of the two friends starts.
The book is a wonderful tale of friendship and love, and also a story to teach children to overcome their fears, to believe in their own strength, and still be allowed to show your weakness. I have read the book together with my six years old daughter, and it has given us many great reading hours. Actually we are still enjoying being together with Jim and Luke, now reading the sequel to the book.
Britt Arnhild Lindland
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