1. Momo Michael Ende Pdf

If you have just started studying German it won't be the easiest read, no book is when you're only beginning another language, but once you're If you have just started studying German it won't be the easiest read, no book is when you're only beginning another language, but once you're intermediate by all means read it because it's one of the most magical and beautiful books you'll ever read! You'll have to look up words from time to time but I promise it will be worth the effort because it will teach you the words that add colour, texture and magic and really gives a language wings. Momo is a classic story that is known as a children's book, yet I believe that adults may even glean more from its reading than younger folk. Momo is written by Michael Ende, the author who is most known in the US for having written The Neverending Story.

When I was younger, and my mother ran an independent children's bookstore, she ordered a case of this book, and gave a copy to all of her friends and colleagues.This is a modern day fairytale, about a little girl named Momo, who moves into a Momo is a classic story that is known as a children's book, yet I believe that adults may even glean more from its reading than younger folk. Momo is written by Michael Ende, the author who is most known in the US for having written The Neverending Story. When I was younger, and my mother ran an independent children's bookstore, she ordered a case of this book, and gave a copy to all of her friends and colleagues.This is a modern day fairytale, about a little girl named Momo, who moves into a ruined amphitheater on the edge of a Italian-style town. She is a remarkable individual, who lives in poverty, yet her life is rich with friendship and love. Momo has a unique skill of deep listening. Soon all the villagers learn that when they are not getting along they should 'go and see Momo'. Through Momo's friendship, her friends find peace, community, and creativity.

Her gift of listening to them until the truth unveils itself brings her to be surrounded by many friends who bring her food, tell her stories, and help care for her in her adopted home.Life changes quickly in the village, when the Men in Gray infiltrate their life, hypnotizing people to save time. In their Time Saving Banks, they steal people's time, and smoke it in gray cigars that they are never seen without. Yet, no one remembers ever seeing the Men in Gray, except Momo, who cannot be hypnotized by the lures of timesaving because she is content with being who she is and loves to spend time with her friends.

Eventually, everyone is entrapped by the Men in Gray, and only Momo can save them.Even Momo's two best friends, Guido the Guide and Bebbo Roadsweeper, have been seduced by the Men in Gray. Luckily, she has help from two new friends Cassiopeia, a tortoise who can see precisely half-an-hour into the future and can spell words across her shell to communicate, and Professor Secundus Minutus Hora, who is the steward of the universal source of time.This is an incredibly magical story which I dare not tell you more of lest I ruin the story for you. You must read Momo for yourself.

Dear friends!Do you have time to sit down for a moment, and listen to a story? It is a true one, of great importance, with a vital message for humankind. It starts in a classroom, where a teacher is about to wrap up for the day. She has put a lot of time into the Timesaving Bank, and wants to save some more of it by rushing off to the underground to catch the next train.

That makes at least four minutes which she will not have to spend waiting, Heaven forbid! 4 minutes to put into the Timesaving Dear friends!Do you have time to sit down for a moment, and listen to a story?

It is a true one, of great importance, with a vital message for humankind. It starts in a classroom, where a teacher is about to wrap up for the day. She has put a lot of time into the Timesaving Bank, and wants to save some more of it by rushing off to the underground to catch the next train. That makes at least four minutes which she will not have to spend waiting, Heaven forbid! 4 minutes to put into the Timesaving Bank.Just when she is about to rush out, already wearing her coat, some of her mentor students come in. There has been a conflict.

They want to tell her their different versions. The teacher sighs, sacrifices her valuable time out of a reluctant sense of duty, and lets go of the next underground, quite unwillingly.What follows is a 40-minute conversation between five teenage boys, all describing the development of the fight from their point of view.Having been assigned to do unspecified online research in a class, they find themselves bored, and start to tease each other. After a while, it is not funny anymore, someone gets hurt, tries to pay back with a spiteful comment, and the whole thing gets out of control. This is not what the teacher hears first, of course.

The last comment in class is the first that is reported: 'He said.' , 'But you did.' , uncovering of the drama in backwards slow motion.After 40 minutes of intensive listening and peeling the onion, a solution is found, apologies are accepted, and all leave to go home.

One student gets into new trouble with his timesaving mother who had to wait for him and lost an entire 60 minute investment in the Timesaving Bank. Peacekeeping is expensive!Change of scenes. The teacher enters her own home, late.

Her children hang out in the living room, reading. In order to vent the stress caused by the lost time, the teacher, now transformed into a mother, retells the whole story again, with all the strange tosses and turns before the truth is revealed.Her eldest son looks up, smiles, and says:'Why don't you ask Momo, mum?'

That question has a familiar ring to it. It is a quote from a long-ago favourite. The mother, confused, looks at the title of the book the son is reading, and sees the cover of Michael Ende's perfect fairytale. The 14-year-old is rereading the story that he had loved to listen to as a small child, a story of such power that it gains strength every time you enter it.A story of a child who teaches grown-ups a lesson.' Why don't you ask Momo, mum?' My son is teaching me a lesson.In an amphitheatre outside a big city, the girl Momo lives and assembles her friends.

She has a rare gift: she can listen! This gift helps people talk and solve problems, come to terms with misunderstandings and find back to a friendly way with each others.

The city, however, is in danger. Grey men have taken over, encouraging people to 'save time'. They put new structures in place to make things faster, and more efficient.

But at the same time, something is lost: the appreciation of life lived for the moment. Education is turned into mindless infotainment with standardised rules:'All the games were selected for them by supervisors and had to have some useful, educational purpose. The children learned these new games but unlearned something else in the process: they forgot to be happy, how to take pleasure in little things and last, but not least, how to dream.' In the grown-up world, hate and mistrust enter the stage:'All the world's misfortunes stemmed from the countless untruths, both deliberate and unintentional, which people told because of haste or carelessness.' What is to be done?

The little girl Momo sets out to save the world by reconquering time!If you think this sounds like a boring, philosophical read for children, think again. It is one of the most compellingly exciting stories imaginable, capturing a teenage boy (who already knew the plot) so completely that he forgot time and place to finish it in one session yesterday. It is so touching that he came down to breakfast today and said that he had actually cried, adding:'And that has not happened in many years, mum, not since I read. Maybe you should read it with your class?' 'I don't have time for that!' 'We don't have a copy in English!' In the school library.

You bought it yourself!' So my students will not do standardised peer collaboration games for mentor time from now on. They will sit in a circle, pretending it is an amphitheatre, and they will listen to their teacher read 'Momo':'Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart.' And since we have plenty of time, we will continue with, another masterpiece by the same author. It will take a while, but I can't think of time better invested. What a waste of life to save time!

What was I thinking? I already count Ende's to be one of the very best books ever written, so why would I waste SO MUCH TIME getting to anything else he wrote?It blows my mind!It's almost like SOMEONE HAS BEEN STEALING MY TIME! All those damn time-savers out there fooled me and tied me up and made my life a dull gray, smoke-filled, DEADLY TEDIOUS world! They kept me from this book. And now I know why!It's a conspiracy of the Time-Banks.Momo is pretty damn wonderful.

The What was I thinking? I already count Ende's to be one of the very best books ever written, so why would I waste SO MUCH TIME getting to anything else he wrote?It blows my mind!It's almost like SOMEONE HAS BEEN STEALING MY TIME! All those damn time-savers out there fooled me and tied me up and made my life a dull gray, smoke-filled, DEADLY TEDIOUS world! They kept me from this book.

And now I know why!It's a conspiracy of the Time-Banks.Momo is pretty damn wonderful. The concept is classic, an epic battle between children who really understand the necessity of wasting time and the horrible monsters, the gray men, who offer up devilish riches to everyone else in order to suck the life and time from everyone else.shiver.Honestly, if someone published this as the new up-and-coming YA book in today's day and age without knowing that Momo ever existed, it would be heralded as unique and gorgeous and groundbreaking.

Gaiman would be blurbing it and there would be a twitter storm of praise.But no, it's just some silly book written back in 1973. No one cares.

I read this book for the first time as a preteen, but I left it unfinished because I didn't find it engaging or entertaining. A few years later, due to my LOVE for Michaels Endes's, I decided to give it another try, and managed to finish it that time.In the end, I quite liked the story, I found it very beautiful actually.

My problem with it is that it isn't a diverting read, I found it boring in many occasions, which it is a shame because the message that this story sends I read this book for the first time as a preteen, but I left it unfinished because I didn't find it engaging or entertaining. A few years later, due to my LOVE for Michaels Endes's, I decided to give it another try, and managed to finish it that time.In the end, I quite liked the story, I found it very beautiful actually. My problem with it is that it isn't a diverting read, I found it boring in many occasions, which it is a shame because the message that this story sends is very beautiful. I don't think this book has the right pace for a story intended for kids or young people, it is a miss in this area. The essence is definitely there, it is meaningful, but the first time I tried to read it I was too young to have the patience to see it through, and I think many young people must have found themselves in the same situation. Again, it is a pity because it could have been more transcendental with just a little more agility in its rhythm.

You cannot, repeat: cannot, go into this book with the expectations of 'hard,' realist fiction. Then again, if you know anything about Michael Ende (the author of the Never Ending Story), you won't.Momo is one of those rare books that would do well in a fourth-grade classes, but is also strangely releveant to adults. The story centers around a girl named Momo who took residence in an ancient, abandoned amphitheater in an unnamed town, which is populated by a series of people who do small-town You cannot, repeat: cannot, go into this book with the expectations of 'hard,' realist fiction. Then again, if you know anything about Michael Ende (the author of the Never Ending Story), you won't.Momo is one of those rare books that would do well in a fourth-grade classes, but is also strangely releveant to adults. The story centers around a girl named Momo who took residence in an ancient, abandoned amphitheater in an unnamed town, which is populated by a series of people who do small-town jobs (Bepo Streetsweeper, Nino who owns an inn, Guido Guide who works as a fake - albeit enterataining - tourist guide).The story starts by painting Momo's life and place in the town, and details the downfall of the place to mysterious, grey men. The book deals heavily in the subject of time, and the squandering of it - and this is the genius of the plot.

There is enough fantasy to hold a 10-year-old's attention, but plenty of substance to whet the apetite of an adult.I can't help but think that this story rings of pre-globalized Europe, and considering that Ende is German, that would make sense. Momo is translated from German, and the diction often shows this, but that doesn't stop the book from being an incredibly enjoyable read.

Translated into English, under the same title:.At the edge of a small town, among the ruins of an old amphitheater, lives a most unusual little girl. She is very small, very poor and not particularly educated for her age. She does, however, have an extraordinary talent: she can truly listen to people.Don't mistake her listening skills for the generic I will listen for now, but please hurry up so I can talk about my own problems type. Hers is the genuine kind, the one that shows real Translated into English, under the same title:.At the edge of a small town, among the ruins of an old amphitheater, lives a most unusual little girl. She is very small, very poor and not particularly educated for her age. She does, however, have an extraordinary talent: she can truly listen to people.Don't mistake her listening skills for the generic I will listen for now, but please hurry up so I can talk about my own problems type.

Hers is the genuine kind, the one that shows real interest in people's problems. This amazing ability of hers has proven to be so successful, that eventually 'just go and talk to Momo about it' had rightfully become the solution to anyone's problems.The town's happy life is suddenly cut short when the grey men start showing up. Before long, people are putting their 'extra' time into their bank, getting busier and unhappier every day. Only Momo seems to have escaped the grey men's influence.I really wish I had read this story when I was a child, instead of.

It's so much more engaging, realistic and - to a certain extent - rather sad. Alas, at the time, there was this big hype about a movie, so I ended up reading 's other book. And that still gets occasionally stuck in my head.Strictly as a children's story, it's one of the better ones I've read. However when it comes to those children's stories which I've read as an adult, it is somewhat lacking.Most characters can be reduced to a single attribute, the only exception being of the Time Guardian. Even he was basically just slightly more real (in behavior) compared to the rest of the cast.Score: 3.3/5 starsThe world -building of the story, however is awesome.

The little allegories here and there paint an amazing picture, especially now, that I am looking at them with the eyes of an adult (.cough. wishfulthinking.cough.).A definite must-read, when it comes to children's literature. Recommended to me by Meltha, one of the smartest people I know, who has a great love for most of the things I love. How could I resist?10/9 - Why? Why isn't this required reading in schools all over the damn place? Why haven't I heard of this? Why hasn't it been made into a movie like NES?WHY?????::ahem::This book is WONDERFUL!

And for the first time since I started keeping my nose in a book 14 hours a day (a girl's gotta sleep), people asked what I was reading, and I had so much fun telling Recommended to me by Meltha, one of the smartest people I know, who has a great love for most of the things I love. How could I resist?10/9 - Why?

Why isn't this required reading in schools all over the damn place? Why haven't I heard of this? Why hasn't it been made into a movie like NES?WHY?????::ahem::This book is WONDERFUL!

And for the first time since I started keeping my nose in a book 14 hours a day (a girl's gotta sleep), people asked what I was reading, and I had so much fun telling them about the book and how they needed to read it.It's so sweet, and just smart. Extremely clever, with lovely visuals that did NOT leave me skimming as some OTHER books of late have done. Just wonderful. Everyone needs to read this. Anni's pick for my 'Tell me your favorite standalone and I'll read it' BINGOI didn't even know this book existed till Anni recommended it.

And boy am I glad I read it! Because it was so lovely and charming!!! Fabulous!Momo, is a ragged little waif, who had set up house beneath the stage of an old ruined amphitheatre. Small and thin, with an unruly mop of jet-black hair that looked as if it had never seen a comb or a pair of scissors, she is most always barefoot and wears an ankle-length dress Anni's pick for my 'Tell me your favorite standalone and I'll read it' BINGOI didn't even know this book existed till Anni recommended it. And boy am I glad I read it!

Because it was so lovely and charming!!! Fabulous!Momo, is a ragged little waif, who had set up house beneath the stage of an old ruined amphitheatre. Small and thin, with an unruly mop of jet-black hair that looked as if it had never seen a comb or a pair of scissors, she is most always barefoot and wears an ankle-length dress that's more like a mass of patches of different colours and over it, a too big for her man's jacket with the sleeves turned up at the wrists. In a word, she is different!Momo - the movieBut despite being different, or perhaps precisely because of it, Momo becomes indispensable to the people in the neighbourhood. She couldn't sing like a bird or play an instrument, she couldn't do tricks and knew no magic either.' What Momo was better at than anyone else was listening.Anyone can listen, you may say - what's so special about that? - but you'd be wrong.

Very few people know how to listen properly and Momo's way of listening was quite unique.' I'm not going to spoil and tell you how unique, you'll have to read and find that out. Suffice it to say that her way of listening made the words 'Why not go and see Momo?' A stock phrase with the local inhabitants.One day, sinister men in grey arrive and are silently starting to take over the city.

They are drawing life-blood from the unsuspecting inhabitants. They are the time-thieves.The men in grey - Momo the movieLots of things take time and time was Momo's only form of wealth.So of course she is the first to notice that something is wrong.Everyone started to 'save' time for later. They started to rush and to hurry, to fall prey to the men in grey.AndPeople never seemed to notice that by saving time they were loosing something else. No one cared to admit that life was becoming even poorer, bleaker and more monotonous. The ones who felt this most keenly were the children, because no one had time for them anymore. But time is life itself and life resides in the human heart. And the more people saved the less they had.Momo, with her uncanny ability to listen, her simplicity and honesty, holds the key to salvation.

She is the only one who can resist these soulless, corrupt creatures. So she sets out to destroy them and wrestle the time of her friends back from them.Guided by a strangely gifted tortoise, Cassiopeia, Momo finds her way to the mysterious Professor Hora, who promises help her.Cassiopeia with words appearing on her shell: 'KOMM MIT - German for FOLLOW ME -Momo the movieI will not tell you what adventures Momo and Cassiopeia go through.

You'll have to read to find that out. I'll only say that their journey was wonderful and exciting!Peppered with passages that make the reader stop and think about time and life, and the meaning of living, this compelling story is one for readers of all ages. Intricate and deep, it challenges us to take a step back and reflect.

Because after all,Momo - Michael Ende quoteand it's like this:'Sometimes, when you've a very long street ahead of you, you think how terribly long it is and feel sure you'll never get it swept. And then you start to hurry. You work fater and faster and every time you look up there seems to be just as much left to sweep as before and you try even harder, and you panic, and in the end you're out of breath and have to stop - and still the street stretches away in front of you. That's not the way to do it.You must never think of the whole street at once, understand?

You must only concentrate on the next step, the next breath, the next stroke of the broom, and the next, and the next. Nothing else.' In a grown-up world of hate, mistrust and haste in the pursuit of material gain,'All the world's misfortunes stemmed from the countless untruths, both deliberate and unintentional, which people told because of haste or carelessness.' This is the story of a child teaching the grown-ups a lesson. The lesson that: 'Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart.' And since we have plenty of time, we should make sure we listen!Happy reading!:). I bought this book several months ago at a used book store, but I put off reading it because I was afraid it wouldn't live up to Michael Ende's other famous book, which also happens to be my favorite book, The Neverending Story.

While Momo isn't as complex and more bluntly allegorical, it is charming and emotionally stunning. Perhaps I am more naive than most readers, but I felt myself swept up into this book's persuasive world in which children are forgetting how to play and adults only care I bought this book several months ago at a used book store, but I put off reading it because I was afraid it wouldn't live up to Michael Ende's other famous book, which also happens to be my favorite book, The Neverending Story.

While Momo isn't as complex and more bluntly allegorical, it is charming and emotionally stunning. Perhaps I am more naive than most readers, but I felt myself swept up into this book's persuasive world in which children are forgetting how to play and adults only care about saving time instead of enjoying life-a world, of course, very much like our own.I was at times amused, delighted, and deeply moved by this little book. There aren't many books I've read in a day, but I was literally reading this as I walked around the city because I simply couldn't stop reading. There are some books which genuinely affected the way I see the world, and I have a strong belief this one has become one of those.Though more jaded and literary readers might balk at this book's childlike naivite, I believe anyone who gives this book a chance will fall under its spell. After the first 30 or so pages, I was beginning to think I would be the only one to not like this, and suddenly it started to become interesting and profound.

Even though it seems written for the little ones, it really addresses the adults. It's a reminder of LIFE, of the time we have and how we choose to spend it.

Choose wisely!:)I warmly recommend this book.' Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in After the first 30 or so pages, I was beginning to think I would be the only one to not like this, and suddenly it started to become interesting and profound.

Even though it seems written for the little ones, it really addresses the adults. It's a reminder of LIFE, of the time we have and how we choose to spend it. Choose wisely!:)I warmly recommend this book.'

Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it.Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart.' THIS is how to write a novel-length fairy tale.

The characters are whole and human, the fantasy pure, and all else perfect. I must have more of Michael Ende's work.Some stories that deal with magic don't explain anything, not even the rules by which their magic operates. Others make too many rules, turning it into a confusing science. Like fairy tales, we are introduced to a magical object, told the rules which constrain it, but now HOW it works, and move on.

The reader is not left THIS is how to write a novel-length fairy tale. The characters are whole and human, the fantasy pure, and all else perfect. I must have more of Michael Ende's work.Some stories that deal with magic don't explain anything, not even the rules by which their magic operates. Others make too many rules, turning it into a confusing science. Like fairy tales, we are introduced to a magical object, told the rules which constrain it, but now HOW it works, and move on. The reader is not left in the dust, but the mystery and wonder are whole.Symbolism in fairy tales is often very obvious, but the very structure of the genre permits this. I'm not talking about the idiotic good people=beautiful and evil people=ugly that none of the characters-except maybe the Author's Pet-can see through, but how good and evil take off their masks in Fantasy Land.

Momo Michael Ende Pdf

Good can be a withered old man or a ragged and dirty child as well as a fairy princess, and evil is just as recognizable in a bowler hat as in a horned helmet. And yet, everyone has a personality, and even the villains are treated as people by the author.Fairy tales are more true than reality. This is how to convey a clear message that actually enhances the story. The men in grey may not be real, but we all know time-savers, Beppos and Guidos. If we're lucky, we may even know a Momo. In some urban fantasies, authors will sometimes mock popular culture, despite it not adding anything to the story. Modern toys that do everything for the child, leaving nothing to the imagination, are stripped of their glamor and shown for what they are, adding to the depth of the book instead of allowing the author to snicker at how unbelievably STUPID so-and-so is.If you intend to write fantasy, read this book.

If you just enjoy reading fantasy, read this book. If you like a good story, read this book. If people tell you to read more, start here.

It is brilliant, but not difficult, and the more you read it, the more you will gain. Momo's parable is a story that, unfortunately, nowadays, more and more people live. We are trying to save as much time as we can by meeting goals that we alone or others impose on us. We only have a quick transition through life (in general) without having much time to sit with ourselves, to listen to us and to others, to nature, to life. We eat fast, we read fast, we go fast, we work fast, we want everything to go in a hurry to get. It's an idea that has been grinding me for years. Momo's parable is a story that, unfortunately, nowadays, more and more people live.

We are trying to save as much time as we can by meeting goals that we alone or others impose on us. We only have a quick transition through life (in general) without having much time to sit with ourselves, to listen to us and to others, to nature, to life. We eat fast, we read fast, we go fast, we work fast, we want everything to go in a hurry to get. It's an idea that has been grinding me for years. The end is only one and I look, horrified, as more people run to him. For beyond all we expect only death. And yet, Momo teaches us that we are already living dead.

We do not live. Consumer society is spreading more and more - if it does not already exist all over the world. And what do we consume? We consume ourselves. This is the last idea of ​​the book, as I understand it and how it grinds me personally for years. I think it's time to wake up a little.

Let's give us time. To know each other. To get along. Let's really live. Let's move slowly, conscious on the road of life and marvel and enrich us with every step and every experience.I do love parables! What is it about life that we truly treasure?Let's take a minute and think.What did you think of?Imagine there comes a girl into your life, a small girl with brown eyes and brown unruly curls wearing a much too large men's jacket.

This girl has the knack to listen and to play and to make everything in your life more beautiful.But one day the grey men come. They tell you that you're wasting your time with doing silly things like reading, telling stories, visiting your mum, writing poetry What is it about life that we truly treasure?Let's take a minute and think.What did you think of?Imagine there comes a girl into your life, a small girl with brown eyes and brown unruly curls wearing a much too large men's jacket. This girl has the knack to listen and to play and to make everything in your life more beautiful.But one day the grey men come. They tell you that you're wasting your time with doing silly things like reading, telling stories, visiting your mum, writing poetry. They tell you to save your time in their time bank.You feel cold but persuaded and do as you're told.But the grey men are vampires stealing your time. Only Momo can see this.This is a beautiful tale about the importance of friendship, of the beauty of our lives and of infinite wisdom.Many a saying in this book has impacted me deeply and I can only recommend it to young and old.

This book has some truly stellar insights, but it does not make up for the fact that it is incredibly childish in places, and quite boring. I would have LOVED this when I was 10 years old. Now, not so much.Momo, an orphan, makes a home for herslef in an abandoned amphitheater in some unnamed country; I immediately thought of Italy.

She gets many friends of all ages because of her unusual abilitiy to listen. After a while Momo and her friends realize that things are changing in the city. It has This book has some truly stellar insights, but it does not make up for the fact that it is incredibly childish in places, and quite boring.

I would have LOVED this when I was 10 years old. Now, not so much.Momo, an orphan, makes a home for herslef in an abandoned amphitheater in some unnamed country; I immediately thought of Italy. She gets many friends of all ages because of her unusual abilitiy to listen. After a while Momo and her friends realize that things are changing in the city.

It has been invaded by grey men and no grown-ups have time for anything anymore. They are only interested in saving time, but for what, they don't have the time to say.

Momo and her friends they must try to do something before it is too late.I read this in the original German, which was a lot easier than I had expected. Although the last book I read was something by Rebecca Gable and four times as long, with a grown-up audience, so I suppose I understimate my prowess. So I can't blame the translation, nor can I blame my lack of understanding the language. I got what Micahel Ende was saying, and some of it was very astute, I just didn't enjoy this very much. This anniversary edition is beautiful, the illustrations quirky, the shape, size, cover of the book is lovely and I like the font.

I simply dont like this translation anywhere near as much as the one by J.Maxwell Brownjohn. Lucas Zwirner's words somehow lose some of the magic of the first, simplified and less lyrical. It's still a gorgeous book, but I'm happier to read my little paperback for now. Maybe I'll add this to my bookshelf one day just for the sake of having it there.It really makes This anniversary edition is beautiful, the illustrations quirky, the shape, size, cover of the book is lovely and I like the font. I simply dont like this translation anywhere near as much as the one by J.Maxwell Brownjohn. Lucas Zwirner's words somehow lose some of the magic of the first, simplified and less lyrical.

It's still a gorgeous book, but I'm happier to read my little paperback for now. Maybe I'll add this to my bookshelf one day just for the sake of having it there.It really makes you appreciate the importance of a good translation, how the little nuances of text can completely change the feeling of a work. Now I really am hoping for a new translation of Cornelia Funke's Mirrorworld series - Anthea Bell's way with words is sorely lacking in that series, though the author's imagination is a gorgeous as ever.

I owe a debt of gratitude to a good friend for persuading me to read this novel. It is one that I would not have otherwise read, given the general premise and genre. A magical fable. I have one main point of information for you concerning this work that I will pass along right away so that you need not read the remainder of this review to have it. This is an extended fable of extraordinary charm that will captivate a reader of any age level.

I can imagine an adult reading this book to a child I owe a debt of gratitude to a good friend for persuading me to read this novel. It is one that I would not have otherwise read, given the general premise and genre.

A magical fable. I have one main point of information for you concerning this work that I will pass along right away so that you need not read the remainder of this review to have it.

This is an extended fable of extraordinary charm that will captivate a reader of any age level. I can imagine an adult reading this book to a child and both of them deriving so much from it simultaneously. The first time I read this was around the time when I started secondary school. I did not remember a single thing of this book. I'm glad to have re-read it, it is full of symbol and still (or maybe even more so) relevant for people today.

Really don't know how children/young teenagers are expected to understand this story, but maybe they just enjoy the story for what it is.Momo is an orphan street girl living in a big city. As far as she can remember, she has always lived there together with a The first time I read this was around the time when I started secondary school.

I did not remember a single thing of this book. I'm glad to have re-read it, it is full of symbol and still (or maybe even more so) relevant for people today. Really don't know how children/young teenagers are expected to understand this story, but maybe they just enjoy the story for what it is.Momo is an orphan street girl living in a big city.

As far as she can remember, she has always lived there together with a wide variety of friends. One day, a group of 'grey men' come to the city and start making individual propositions to the each city dweller about 'saving time'. The conversation starts off with a description of 'how much time they have left', followed by 'how time gets wasted'. The city dwellers don't remember the 'grey men', but they thoroughly absorb their message about 'saving time'. Most people only have time to work and nothing else. It's very sad actually.

Momo is the hero in this story because she fights against the 'grey men' and saves everybody from losing time.Definitely a very symbolic book and one that can be interpreted in numerous ways. 3.75 starsA very enjoyable story. I quite liked the whimsical tone and the way Momo interacted with others. This book did make me think about how I use my time and if I'm being too efficient to enjoy other things. My library has this in the adult collection, but it felt more like I was reading a classic children's or young adult book.Content warning: Some mild language (mostly religious)2019 challenge: a book recommended by a celebrity you admire (Gerard Way) As a side note, I didn't like this 3.75 starsA very enjoyable story. I quite liked the whimsical tone and the way Momo interacted with others.

This book did make me think about how I use my time and if I'm being too efficient to enjoy other things. My library has this in the adult collection, but it felt more like I was reading a classic children's or young adult book.Content warning: Some mild language (mostly religious)2019 challenge: a book recommended by a celebrity you admire (Gerard Way) As a side note, I didn't like this prompt because I don't really like the idea of 'celebrities' suggesting what I should read. But I really like Gerard Way's art, both music and comics, and so I picked one he mentioned once on Instagram. Re-reading this after 30+ years, it feels eerily timely; I'd forgotten that the plot is essentially 'children protest what capitalism is doing to the world, but the adults are too busy consuming to care, and instead choose to go after the kid who points out how unsustainable it all is. In the end, the ones who tried to steal the world fight each other to the death over the few resources that remain.' That said, while Ende's rose-tinted view of poverty leaves something to be desired (of course Re-reading this after 30+ years, it feels eerily timely; I'd forgotten that the plot is essentially 'children protest what capitalism is doing to the world, but the adults are too busy consuming to care, and instead choose to go after the kid who points out how unsustainable it all is. In the end, the ones who tried to steal the world fight each other to the death over the few resources that remain.'

That said, while Ende's rose-tinted view of poverty leaves something to be desired (of course it's set in Italy, that charming southern cousin where people enjoy being poor), the central idea is still so strong, and the execution both so sharp and so likable that I find myself falling in love all over again. And I promise not to get annoyed the next time someone takes longer than they need to in line ahead of me. “.it's like this. Sometimes, when you've a very long street ahead of you, you think how terribly long it is and feel sure you'll never get it swept.

And then you start to hurry. You work faster and faster and every time you look up there seems to be just as much left to sweep as before, and you try even harder, and you panic, and in the end you're out of breath and have to stop-and still the street stretches away in front of you.

That's not the way to do it.You must never think of the whole street at once, understand? You must only concentrate on the next step, the next breath, the next stroke of the broom, and the next, and the next. Nothing else.That way you enjoy your work, which is important, because then you make a good job of it. And that's how it ought to be.And all at once, before you know it, you find you've swept the whole street clean, bit by bit.

What's more, you aren't out of breath. That's important, too.”—.

Download EBOOK Momo PDF for freeCategory:The author of the book:Format files: PDF, EPUB, TXT, DOCXThe size of the: 585 KBLanguage: EnglishISBN-13: 534Edition: PUFFINDate of issue: 1 January 1990Description of the book 'Momo':At the edge of the city, in the ruins of an old amphitheatre, there lives a little homelss girl called Momo. Momo has a special talent which she uses to help all her friends who come to visit her.

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