cute little story if you enjoyed the Disney adaptation, I didn't know that The Brave Little Toaster was a book before being adapted into the movie I remember from my childhood, And I have to say, the book is kind of awesome, It's written with a formalized elegance that you might expect from older stories, but the tone is absolutely perfect, It's a quiet story and it's easy to love these intrepid little appliances,
Sadly I had to weed this book from the library's collection due to its age and the book does show its age in terms of the technology used and low circulation, but it has since found a cozy little place on my bookshelf at home.
This is such a cute adventure, I got curious after having watched the movie as a child and found out that it was a book/short story, I'm pretty sure this book is not in print anymore, so the chances of your reading it may be very small, However, if you get a chance to read it, do, It's imaginative and quite the adventure, I will not ruin anything for you, you simply must read it, Enjoy! Sadly, for whatever reason, The Brave Little Toaster is both a rare book and a quite expensive book to buy in print these days, I don't personally own a copy, and borrowed it from the library instead, Having inspired the Disney property of the same name in the's, The Brave Little Toaster is by no means a book that should be read by anybody who empathizes with inanimate objects, as it's like a novelsized version of IKEA's tragic lamp in the rain commercial.
Setting aside that the main characters of the story are all electrical appliances, the The Brave Little Toaster's rather grim outlook on life is as relatable as it is deep the human narrative of what we're meant to do in life can be disrupted as we get older, to the point where we need to forge our own paths and establish our worth in other ways than were planned.
The The Brave Little Toaster's story is fairly straightforward: a small group of living appliances go on a journey to find their "master", their owner who used to use them before strangely abandoning them.
Led by a determined, cheerful and optimistic toaster, this team includes a bag vacuum, a desk lamp, an electric blanket and a small radio, Along the way are other humans who pose a threat to their mission, as well as outdoor dangers and obstacles, . . and where these appliances ultimately end up is nothing that they ever expected,
Thomas Disch's approach to fiction is an interesting one while not the first author to give life to inanimate objects, his ability to explore the human condition through these objects is both uncanny and incredibly creative.
I wouldn't necessarily categorize this as strictly a children's book, as many of the themes are things that older readers would appreciate more, including some
of the quotes and references.
Hopefully the book falls into print again at some point in the near future I'm not sure whether it's tied up in intellectual property rights or if it simply has no overwhelming demand for reprinting, but The Brave Little Toaster is a good book with much more in it than appearances would suggest.
Recuerdo que vi la pelicula cuando era una niña y la amé, Siempre que la pasaban, la veía, Ahora que he leído el libro, y a pesar de algunas pequeñas diferencias, amé también el libro, I feel like there's some symbolism here that I'm missing because I'm sleepy, Feeling abandoned by their beloved master, a vacuum cleaner, tensor lamp, electric blanket, clock radio, and toaster undertake a long and arduous journey to find him in a faraway city.
What a charming book! I'd seen the movie as a kid, but the book actually has a lot more whimsy, and none of the really scary parts that are in the movie.
A great lesson for kids about not throwing things away that can still be used, A whimsical tale of nostalgia, memory, love, need and terror, Every character is relatable, every trial invokes sympathy, A fantastic tale of teamwork and friendship, Typical of Disch, the story is inventive and sensitive, Yet, untypicallyfrom the books by this author which I've managed to read as yet I plan to read all of his books sooner or later and first fell in love after reading sitelinkCamp Concentrationit is tender and very cute.
However, despite the interesting conceit and the simplicity of the tale itself, I wouldn't say that it was truly written for the under ten crowd necessarily, Though I suppose, if the children in question possess prodigious vocabularies and attention levels, they might fare just fine with it, But from my experiences with this age group, I would say that such a reader, at such an age, is an extreme rarity, The language and sentence structure of the book seemed unnecessarily almost willfully complex at times for a child, and I think most would end up switching off as a result.
It makes me wonder if Disch intended it as a "kids" book best enjoyed by adults, On the other hand, children do not have to understand every word of a bedtime story in order to remain engaged and it is good to expose them to unfamiliar language constructions to ensure the future literacy of the human race, which many seem to fear is slipping ever steadily downward.
I really wanted to give this book two and a half, but struggled between compromising at two or three, I settled on the former option, as one can see,
I love this story in all its forms, and give a real nod of respect to Thomas M, Disch for the unique creativity that led to the writing of this small novel, The reading level is substantially above what one who has seen the hit movie might expect, but the plot moves along very well and the tidbits of real wisdom to be found about living past one's prime and being helplessly outmoded make this a story worth reading for anyone, I think, in conjunction with the movie or apart from it.
The end is different from that of the film but is quiet, reasonable, and still comforting, The Brave Little Toaster is a nice read, and quite brief, and I like it,
"But it is a rare human being who will be swayed by considerations of the heart in his dealings with appliances, . . "
The Brave Little Toaster, P,I saw that this was a children's book by science fiction author Disch and was intrigued, but didn't pick it up until I had kids, Five appliances go in search of the master, Pretty simple stuff, good for kids, for adults, kinda stupid, but the kids liked it so I guess it hit the intended market, I read The Brave Little Toaster in The Magazine of Fantasy amp Science Fiction when it appeared in the August,issue and was a little amused and bemused I thought it was a cute little story for kids but wasn't sure why it was in FampSF.
I liked the cover by Gahan Wilson, and read it to one or the other of my oldest kids, who would've been five or six, I was bemused and a bit confused when it won some awards and was on both the Nebula and Hugo ballots, . . cute story for kids, sure, but why was it up for best of the year in a category it didn't fit And then I was, you know, when it became a very popular and successful film.
I still don't know what was there that I missed, but it's a cute kids' story, Ironic that it was Disch's best known, most popular, and only filmed work, A lovely little story. But surprisingly, I like the movie even better! An adventure in survival occurs when five appliances trek through the wilderness in an attempt to reach their owner in the city.
Brilliant and wonderful fantasy, one which appeals to a wider readership than its style might at first suggest, Written in the style of a children's fable and manifestly intended as a short instructional tale for children, tipped off by the second part of its full title A Bedtime Story for Small Appliancesthe incongruity of five household appliances a tensor lamp, an electric blanket, an alarm clock radio, a Hoover vacuum cleaner, and the brave little Sunbeam toasterleader to the others and who never gives up hope in the face of danger together on a quest to find their former owner, appears to resonate with the young at heart alike.
Disch recounted how he was unable to get the story published as a children's book at first, because publishers thought it too “farfetched”, even after the author had sold it to Disney as a film.
The film contains many differences from the book but is essentially the same story, though the ending differs in the novel, the appliances trade themselves away to an old ballerina who needs them, while in the movie they are reunited with their former owner.
The sequel, The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars, ups the ante with the Brave Little Toaster and his companions travelling to Mars to stop an invasion from hostile appliances who have a colony there.
This too was made into a film,
The novella contains several memorable passages, distinguished by the presence of terrific incidental characters that popup along the way:
The remarkable turn of fate in the late stages of the story is the clinching moment of this fascinating, evenly written and rewarding tale, taking the reader on a profound arc toward enlightenment, in doing so, gesturing toward allegory.
In any respect though, this fantasy would certainly qualify under the definition for the term fable, .
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