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    The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio

    By Lloyd Alexander

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    A beautiful Kirkassi girl, cold-eyed villains and smiling killers, a bazaar merchant peddling slightly used dreams—could any young adventurer ask for more? Not Carlo Chuchio, who is seeking hidden treasure on the legendary Road of Golden Dreams.

    With Baksheesh, the world's worst camel-puller, Carlo leads a caravan through the realm of Keshavar. Robbed of all but his underdrawers, mistaken for a mighty warrior and then for a crown prince, Carlo risks his life for a prize that may not even exist.

    Newbery medalist Lloyd Alexander weaves a glorious tale of adventure, love, and the treasures that matter most.

    The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio is a 2008 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateAug 7, 2007
    ISBN9781429986731
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    Lloyd Alexander

    Lloyd Alexander (1924-2007) was the author of more than forty books for children and adults, including the beloved children's fantasy series, the Chronicles of Prydain, one of the most widely read series in the history of fantasy and the inspiration for the animated Disney film, The Black Cauldron. His books have won numerous awards, including the Newbery Medal, the Newbery Honor, and the National Book Award for Juvenile Literature.

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    • 4/5
      It's hard to review anything else by Lloyd Alexander without comparing it to his Prydain Chronicles. In this case, the obvious similarities make it impossible. Like them, this is set in an imaginary realm based more or less on some real one---in this case, the world of the Arabian Nights rather than Welsh mythology. And this too follows a young adventurer on a quest with a ragtag band of companions.Of course, there are also many differences. This seems to be written for a slightly older audience, at least than The Book of Three, as the story is somewhat more complex than in those books, at least taken individually. Unfortunately, in other ways it doesn't stand up well to the comparison---the story isn't quite as memorable, the characters not quite as engaging, the ending a bit more of a disappointment. Still, this is a decent adventure story, and I think most kids would enjoy it.

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    • 5/5
      Perhaps the greatest weakness of The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio is that it is written from a first-person point of view, lessening the suspense one might feel whenever its protagonist finds himself in dire circumstances. Such an objection is merely a matter of personal taste, however. Admirers of Lloyd Alexander's works will find much to enjoy in the course of this, his last story.The time period the story is set in is unspecified, though it would be no surprise if our titular character had been a contemporary of Marco Polo. Carlo begins his story employed by his uncle, an accountant in the Italian region of Campania--though the city of Magenta in which they live is not to be confused with the real Italian city of that name, located in the north at the base of the Alps.Carlo is given a book of presumably Arabian tales by a mysterious stranger, as well as a map which was hidden in the book's binding. The map points to a fortress of lost treasure, which Carlo's intuition tells him must be real. So he sets out across the sea, determining to follow the Road of Golden Dreams which lead from the eastern Mediterranean shore to Cathai (China).Upon reaching land, he makes the acquaintance of a trio of characters who accompany him on his journey: Baksheesh, a self-serving, slick-talking and thick-skinned street urchin who volunteers his services as Carlo's camel-puller and never uses an appellation twice. Shira, a girl of half-Arab and half-Oriental blood seeking to know what became of her home and family. And Salomon, a wandering philosopher of the finest Socratean tradition, who in temperament and appearance brings to mind Shepherd Book of the TV series Firefly, but is an even match for Alexander's own Rhun son of Rhuddlum in curiosity.A colorful cast of supporting characters help or hinder them on their journey, a journey which Salomon reminds them is just as important as their destinations. In their own ways, they each encounter bandits, eccentrics, serendipitous twists of fate, visions, intrigue, starvation, beauty, love, and more. The moments of self-discovery each character experiences are well earned and quite satisfying.Going into the book with the awareness that it was Lloyd Alexander's last, it evokes some rather poignant feelings. The tone can be found of a master storyteller in the twilight of his life, if one looks for it. Unlike the brash ambition and high ideals of Taran, Alexander's main protagonist in his superlative Prydain Chronicles, Carlo Chuchio's story is told by a man not seeking a climactic finale to his life's work, but was simply content to tell the kind of story he told best through decades of experience. One could appropriately liken them to the two horn concertos of Richard Strauss; the first written by a talented youth ready to share his great ideas with the world, and the second written by the seasoned composer who has little to prove, but still something worth saying.Rife with a warm humor, The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio thus serves as an uplifting coda to a great writer's body of works. May all who read it realize their own pleasant, golden dreams.