The Cloud Searchers: A Graphic Novel (Amulet #3)

My son loves to read and I found this book. There's nothing better than your children reading this book; it's very interesting.

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My seven-year old niece loved this book and finished it in less than a day. I bought her the rest of the series.

This is the third volume is Kibuishi's amulet series and we return to Emily and Navin, in their continued quest to help defeat the elf king. Leon Redbeard is tasked with guiding them to the guardian council, the lost rulers and most powerful stone keepers in the kingdom. If anyone can help them they can. There's just one problem...their city disappeared long ago and many think it has been destroyed. But the group has to try to find them. Along the way they meet new friends, old so called enemies, and a powerful new foe. Emily must continue to master the amulet in order to help them along their way and to ensure their survival. Even with the introduction of more characters Kazu creates a world that's easy to inhabit and follow along with (although it does help to reread the previous volumes before picking up this one.) In this book we learn even more about the elf kingdom and some of its darkest secrets. There are only a couple places that I wish we found out more about the characters, like when they land at the fill stations. What's the story between Rico and the owner? Hopefully more of the story will be revealed along the way...it's just one of those nagging little mysteries. The artwork continues to shine and allow you to get deeper and deeper into the world around the characters. Kazu and his team do an amazing job with creating depth in the illustrations and colors. I continue to highly recommend this series every chance I get and the only downside of the series is having to wait for that next volume to find out what happens to Emily, Navin, and the gang.

I've been a fan of Kazu Kibuishi ever since I lucked upon his wonderful Daisy Kutter: The Last Train at my local library. While Daisy remains a sentimental favorite, the Amulet series may end up overtaking it if Kibuishi continues the pacing and promise in volumes 1 through 3. The Amulet series centers on young Emily, a girl who lost her father in a startling sequence in Volume 1 (The Stonekeeper). She, her brother and her mother moved to a rickety house that was her grandfather's. While Volume 1 and 2 centers a lot on establishing the characters and the world of Amulet, Volume 3 gets the reader right into the action, namely the political machinery that is Alledia as Emily and Company have their marching orders to find Cielis, a city that was once Alledia's capital before the takeover by the Elf King. Kibuishi's artwork is inviting in the way a Saturday cartoon might be. His human characters have rounded faces, his anthropomorphic characters are cute and cuddly, and the scenery is lush like a Miyazaki film but underneath those inviting qualities is a story full of tension and uncertainty. As evidenced in the first volume, it is clear that Kibuishi is not afraid to let the punch fly so when a character that the reader has grown attached to is taken away by flying monkeys or what-have-you, the reader is not sure if that character may come back. And there is a lot of tension in this volume: Emily's unsureness of her abilities and distrust of the amulet that gives her strange power; Trellis, the son of the Elf King, who is neither friend nor foe and who has problems of his own; Emily's mother who appears to be barely holding it together for her children; and Leon, the freedom fighter who is Emily's teacher but who may be in over his head. It is because of this juxtaposition between the cute and the unsettling that gives this series its bite and makes me want more. When I received my advance reader copy for review, I knew as soon as I finished it that I would be ordering a copy as soon as final version was released. Based on Kibuishi's twitter, volume 3 (The Cloud Searchers) is the half way point of the series. I highly recommend this series. I don't know how it will end. I have a feeling that it will have a happy ending but with a bittersweet edge that comes from a hard fought battle and journey. But it is a journey that I want to follow and I look forward to more of Emily's journey to free Alledia and herself as well.

This set of books starts off with a bold tragedy that sets up the rest of the characters. Fun and fantastic, Tolkien like with a mash up of Jim Henson muppets. The story is captivating and possibly more important, is the art. Attention to detail, vibrante colours and imaginative creations. You root for the lead charcters, Emily and Navin. Being so young but brave to go after their mother who has been taken by a octopus slash bug monster. The new world they discover will shock and awe them. To find out this place is hidden from the eyes of "our" world and that destruction can come to both. It is reveled to the kids by their great grandpa Silas, who sets them on this important mission. Character delvopment is huge in this book series.The friends that go with Emily and Navin you will cheer for. Miskit the rabbit, Cogsley the jerk robot and Leon the fox, bounty hunter.All important for Emily and Navin to complete their quest. I hope that book five is not the last of this book collection.

So great to see children excited about reading. I bought this for my daughter. She came home from the school library raving over book 1 and said she couldn't wait to finish dinner so she could go read more. A few days later she was depressed because there was a wait list for book 2. I made a deal with her that I would buy her book 2 if she did something for me. She did such a good job I bought her book 2 that same week. She finished it so quickly and couldn't stop talking about it that I decided to see if there were more books in the series. I found out there were 5 with a 6th one in the works! Right then I decided to buy the other books. I didn't realize how difficult it would be to find them all but it was worth the effort! I ended up ordering the entire series including Book 1. Even though she had already read it she wanted to take her time and re-read it. WOW that says it all! Worth every penny. She loved all of them!! It had her from the first word of Book 1 to the end of Book 5. Waiting for Book 6 to be released. I highly recommend this series.

My son loves these

Excellent series of graphic novels with wonderful illustrations and exciting plot with surprises. Fat and easy reads, would suit reluctant reader probably. My 10 year old loves them. He has 4 so far, but there must be more to come.

I gave this book a 5 star because I never wanted to put it down. It started of where I left of from book 2. The story is amazing and I can't wait to ge book 4, 5, 6 and so on....

Excelente empacado pues el libro es de pastas blandas llegó el n condiciones perfectas Gracias

The book arrived just yesterday. I was very satisfied with the condition of the book, though the pages were wavy. I am reading the series again to prepare for the release of the final book next month.