The monster’s entirely cute appearance and clear emotional reactions to his treatment add to the interactive aspect, and some young readers might even resist the instructions to avoid hurting their new pal. Finally, shockingly, it works: “Now he’s in your room!” But clearly a monster in your book is safer than a monster in your room, so he’s coaxed back into the illustrations and lulled to sleep, curled up under one page and cuddling a bit of another like a child with their blankie. Viewers are exhorted to tickle the monster’s feet, blow on the page, and make a really loud noise. Readers are encouraged to shake, tilt, and spin the book around, while the monster careens around an empty background looking scared and lost. “Let’s try to get him out,” declares the narrator. “There’s a monster in your book!” The blue, round-headed monster with pink horns and a pink-tipped tail can be seen cheerfully munching on the opening page. Readers try to dislodge a monster from the pages of this emotive and interactive read-aloud. With all the vagaries of the romance and the conventions of the code it has a strong appeal, but it's not the real thing. Tristan marries another Iseult, remains loving and then breaks with his real love, but they are reunited in death. The story is filled with adventure and adversity - a firedrake killed, intrigue at court, a death sentence and escape, the separation of the lovers. What follows is a triangle similar to Arthur Guinevere-Lancelot, dramatic in its own way but not as distinctive, as the original. In all other versions Tristan and Iseult are lovers doomed after drinking a magic potion intended for lseult and her husband Marc Miss Sutcliff considers this "artificial" and prefers a love springing from natural sources. Here, however, although her technique is sound, the power of her story is diminished by a strange (and self-confessed) alteration of the traditional texts. In presenting stories from the past, Rosemary Sutcliff has an unusual capacity for retaining the flavor of the original while discarding antiquated syntax and inconsequential detail.
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