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From School Library Journal
Gr 4-6-Sophie has been living with her loving guardian, Charles Maxim, for almost all of her 12 years, ever since she was rescued as a baby from a floating cello case after a shipwreck. Charles reads Shakespeare aloud to her, serves her roast potato chips on an open atlas (owing to her penchant for breaking plates), and allows her to wear pants. In this 19th-century world, the Dickensian Miss Eliot, of the National Childcare Agency, decides that Charles is an unfit guardian and that Sophie must become a ward of the state. She and Charles escape to Paris, and it is there that Sophie begins her search for her mother, who, she is convinced, is alive after all and not drowned. Confined for security reasons to an attic room, she begins to explore the rooftops and meets an extraordinary boy, Matteo, who lives and scavenges entirely on the roofs. Life up there is full of dangers, and Sophie's determination to find her mother lands her in some tough situations. Ultimately, however, with the help of Matteo and Charles, her quest comes to a genuinely touching and satisfying conclusion. Rundell's gentle poetic style gives Sophie's story a full-heartedness that makes it take flight at times and sweeps readers along with it. In descibing Charles, Rundell writes: "Think of nighttime with a speaking voice. Or think how moonlight might talk, or think of ink, if ink had vocal chords." Realistic fiction with the feel of fantasy, this atmospheric novel will appeal to a wide range of middle-grade readers.-Sue Giffard, Ethical Culture Fieldston School, New York Cityα(c) Copyright 2013. Library Journal. LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
From Booklist
*Starred Review* When a ship sinks, a one-year-old baby is found floating in a cello case in the English Channel, wrapped in the score of a symphony. She is saved by one of the passengers, a gangly young scholar named Charles Maxwell. Charles decides to keep her. This will cause problems because a single man having a young girl as his ward is frowned upon in 1890s London. Until then, Sophie has a wonderful life living in his drafty house, being taught all manner of interesting things by Charles, and wearing whatever she likes, especially trousers. Yet, one thing bothers Sophie very much: she is sure her mother is still alive. When Sophie is 12, the authorities order her to an orphanage. Instead, Sophie and Charles flee to Paris, where the cello case was made—the first clue to her origins. What follows is a glorious adventure set mostly on the rooftops of Paris. Sophie meets Matteo, who lives on Parisian roofs, and his pals, street kids who help her in her quest. The story is magic, though not in the usual sense. Rundell’s writing is suffused with sparkling images—Sophie’s hair is the color of lightning—and she writes with a perfect mix of dreaminess and humor. The characters shine, too: Charles, the perfect guardian, who uses toast as a bookmark; Matteo, miserable and marvelous by turns; and the inimitable, unsinkable (literally) Sophie, who doesn’t give up. Here’s a heartwarming charmer. Grades 4-6. --Ilene Cooper
Review
“Katherine Rundell’s Rooftoppers, like her previous novel Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms, is the work of a writer with an utterly distinctive voice and a wild imagination. I admire her novels very much, and I hope they find the success they deserve. I’m certainly looking forward to her next." (Philip Pullman, author of the His Dark Materials series )
"Katherine Rundell's Rooftoppers is a confection of lyrical prose. Bold imaginative leaps carry the reader from one Parisian rooftop to the next in this unique and beautifully written tale of a girl in search of the mother whom everyone else believes is dead." (Maryrose Wood, author of The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place series )
"Rooftoppers drew me in immediately and carried me along straight to the end with its original voice and lively story." (Sharon Creech, Newbery-award winning author of Walk Two Moons )
"Here comes a classic... Fantastic joyous storytelling. I was entranced. This is the only book I have ever read that made me long to cook sausages on a roof. From the first page onwards I knew I was reading something that sparkled (and it just got brighter and brighter). I'm a bit jealous actually; I wish I'd written it. Gorgeous, witty, kind, amazing, vertigo inducing, breathtaking, utterly charming, loved, loved, loved this little gem of a book. Hold your breath- this book is magic." (Hilary McKay, Whitbread Children's Book award-winning author of the Casson Family series )
“Never ignore a possible.” Sophie takes her beloved guardian’s words to heart and never gives up on finding her long-lost mother.
One-year-old Sophie is found floating in a cello case in the English Channel by Charles Maxim, a fellow passenger on the freshly sunk Queen Mary: “He noticed that it was a girl, with hair the color of lightning, and the smile of a shy person.” He decides to keep her. The bookish pair lives a harmonious, gloriously unorthodox life together—she prefers trousers to skirts, knows the collective noun for toads and uses atlases as plates. The National Childcare Agency does not approve, so when a clue in Sophie’s cello case links her mother to Paris, Charles and Sophie decide to skip town after her 12th birthday. Once ensconced in her Parisian attic hideaway, Sophie gets a skylight visit from a teenage “rooftopper” named Matteo, who eats pigeons and never, ever descends to street level. Sophie—anxious to help Charles find her mother—secretly joins the boy atop Paris night after night, listening for her cello-playing. Vivid desciptions of fierce kids in survival mode and death-defying rooftop scrambles are breathlessly exciting, as is the bubbling suspense of Sophie’s impassioned search for the possible.
Brava! This witty, inventively poetic, fairy-tale–like adventure shimmers with love, magic and music. (Adventure. 9-12) (Kirkus Reviews)
* "Brava! This witty, inventively poetic, fairy-tale–like adventure shimmers with love, magic and music." (Kirkus Reviews, starred review)
A baby found floating in a cello case in the English Channel, and Charles Maxim, a scholar and fellow survivor of a mysterious shipwreck, become an unconventional family, guided by the philosophy that “You should never ignore a possible.” Permissive but caring, Charles lets the baby, whom he names Sophie, write on walls, eat off books, climb things, and indulge in “mother-watching” as the years pass, until unwanted attention from the National Childcare Agency sends them in search of Sophie’s cello-playing mother. In Paris, 12-year-old Sophie takes to the rooftops, guided by irrepressible roof-dweller Matteo, an orphanage escapee who literally shows her the ropes; in one breathtaking scene, he walks her on a tightrope between buildings (“Grip with your toes. Left. Stop. Do not look down”). Eccentric, tactile food imagery appears throughout, from Charles’s pork pie served on the Bible to Matteo’s fresh-cooked rat. While the children’s uncanny survival skills take occasionally graphic turns, as in a brutal fight between rooftopper tribes, the beauty of sky, music, and the belief in “extraordinary things” triumph in this whimsical and magical tale. Ages 8–12. Agent: Claire Wilson, Rogers, Coleridge & White. (Sept.) (Publishers Weekly)
* "The beauty of sky, music, and the belief in “extraordinary things” triumph in this whimsical and magical tale." (Publishers Weekly, starred review)
* "A glorious adventure…the story is magic." (Booklist, starred review)
Rooftoppers.
Rundell, Katherine (Author)
Sep 2013. 288 p. Simon & Schuster, hardcover, $16.99. (9781442490581).
When a ship sinks, a one-year-old baby is found floating in a cello case in the English Channel, wrapped in the score of a symphony. She is saved by one of the passengers, a gangly young scholar named Charles Maxwell. Charles decides to keep her. This will cause problems because, in late 1890s London, a single man having a young girl as his ward is problematic. Until then, Sophie has a wonderful life living in his drafty house, being taught all manner of interesting things by Charles, and wearing whatever she likes, especially trousers. Yet, one thing bothers Sophie very much: she is sure her mother is still alive. When Sophie is 12, the authorities order her to an orphanage. Instead, Sophie and Charles flee to Paris, where the cello case was made—the first clue to her origins. What follows is a glorious adventure set mostly on the rooftops of Paris. Sophie meets Matteo, who lives on Parisian roofs, and his pals, street kids who help her in her quest. The story is magic, though not in the usual sense. Rundell’s writing is suffused with sparkling images—Sophie’s hair is the color of lightning—and she writes with a perfect mix of dreaminess and humor. The characters shine, too: Charles, the perfect guardian, who uses toast as a bookmark; Matteo, miserable and marvelous by turns; and the inimitable, unsinkable (literally) Sophie, who doesn’t give up. Here’s a heartwarming charmer.
— Ilene Cooper
(Booklist)
“Some stories unfurl with such elegant wit that you feel the author must have been smiling constantly while typing away. Such is the case with Katherine Rundell's Rooftoppers, a sparkling and lovely novel." (Wall Street Journal)
Rooftoppers
By Katherine Rundell, illus. by Terry Fan.
(SSBFYR; ISBN 9781442490581/eBook ISBN 9781442490604; September 2013; Fall Catalog)
Sophie has been living with her loving guardian, Charles Maxim, for almost all of her 12 years, ever since she was rescued as a baby from a floating cello case after a shipwreck. Charles reads Shakespeare aloud to her, serves her roast potato chips on an open atlas (owing to her penchant for breaking plates), and allows her to wear pants. In this 19th-century world, the Dickensian Miss Eliot, of the National Childcare Agency, decides that Charles is an unfit guardian and that Sophie must become a ward of the state. She and Charles escape to Paris, and it is there that Sophie begins her search for her mother, who, she is convinced, is alive after all and not drowned. Confined for security reasons to an attic room, she begins to explore the rooftops and meets an extraordinary boy, Matteo, who lives and scavenges entirely on the roofs. Life up there is full of dangers, and Sophie’s determination to find her mother lands her in some tough situations. Ultimately, however, with the help of Matteo and Charles, her quest comes to a genuinely touching and satisfying conclusion. Rundell’s gentle poetic style gives Sophie’s story a full-heartedness that makes it take flight at times and sweeps readers along with it. In descibing Charles, Rundell writes: “Think of nighttime with a speaking voice. Or think how moonlight might talk, or think of ink, if ink had vocal chords.” Realistic fiction with the feel of fantasy, this atmospheric novel will appeal to a wide range of middle-grade readers. (School Libary Journal)
"Rundell’s gentle poetic style gives Sophie’s story a full-heartedness that makes it take flight at times and sweeps readers along with it...Realistic fiction with the feel of fantasy, this atmospheric novel will appeal to a wide range of middle-grade readers." (School Library Journal, starred review)
From the review: “Survival Skills”
“In many classic children’s novels, parents are a problem best dispensed with early on. Life only gets interesting – if, typically, more unpleasant – once they are out of the way. Hence the popularity of the orphan plot, from Dickens to Rowling, and, lately, its contemporary cousin, the single-parent plot (see “The Hunger Games” and “Twilight”). In this last respect, “Rooftoppers,” Katherine Rundell’s winsome contribution to the genre, is a throwback, avoiding the hard-boiled life lessons of the modern child’s thriller in favor of the wishful logic of the fairy tale. It opens on the high seas, where a baby, swaddled in the score of a Beethoven symphony, drifts along in a cello case, an improbable survivor of shipwreck. Thus is the baby liberated to the promise of an irregular life, though in Rundell’s inspired twist Charles Maxim, the baby’s rescuer and guardian, is no petty sadist, in the mold of Dickens’s Edward Murdstone or Rowling’s Vernon Dursley. Rather, Charles is a genteelly impoverished London bachelor, a fellow passenger on the doomed ship and, more important, a free spirit who provides his young charge with a satisfyingly unorthodox, if wholly benevolent, upbringing…Just when the quaintness begins to feel treacly, Rundell sends Charles and Sophie fleeing to France. The effect is invigorating, like a pinch of cayenne in a cup of cocoa. The proceedings take a furtive, nocturnal turn, and Rundell’s conjuring skills are at full power…Parkour-style stunts ensue, including a heart-stopping tightrope walk 50 feet off the ground and a scramble to the bell tower of Notre Dame, where a rooftopper with impeccable manners and a jacket apparently sewn from doormats makes his home, as Quasimodo once did, among the gargoyles. There is also some after-hours diving in the Seine, and a rooftop brawl involving chimney opts and pigeon bones. The violence is muted and quickly over; Rundell is mostly interested in showing us how life so high up might actually work, down to the pigeon-feather sheets and drainpipe toilets. “Adults are taught not to believe anything unless it is boring or ugly,” Charles says at a moment of discouragement. “It is difficult to believe extraordinary things.” Sophie and the rooftoppers know better.”
--Emily Eakin, NYTBR
(NYTBR)
“Rooftoppers, Katherine Rundell’s winsome contribution to the genre, is a throwback, avoiding the hard-boiled life lessons of the modern child’s thriller in favor of the wishful logic of the fairy tale." (NYTBR)
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