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  • Konrad and the Birthday Painting

  • Artworld, Volume 1
  • By: Sandra R. Andersson
  • Narrated by: Amy Vance
  • Length: 2 hrs and 34 mins
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Konrad and the Birthday Painting

By: Sandra R. Andersson
Narrated by: Amy Vance
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Summary

Everything happened so fast. One minute Konrad was a perfectly normal eight year old, just trying to get through a perfectly normal school day. The next minute he was catapulted through time and space - and oil paints and canvas - into a world he never even knew existed. A pair of sunglasses transform the boring painting outside the principal’s office into the most beautiful thing you ever saw - and a powerful spy device at that.

When the worst bully in school does something very bad and then tries to pin the blame on Konrad’s favorite babysitter, Konrad feels the need to make things right again. But when you’re eight and not exactly the world’s bravest eight year old, there’s not much you can do, is there? Well, perhaps there is....

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Experience a painting from the inside.

This was a fun read (listen), with just the right balance of adventure, fantasy and moral. It is listed on Amazon as suitable for age 6 to 18, though I doubt most eighteen year-olds would choose it. (Audible lists it as 5-7 years)

Konrad is only 8 years old and keeps getting picked on by Philip and his gang from Grade 5. When he finds himself outside the headmaster's office for being late, a series of events leaves him in possession of a wonderful pair of magic sunglasses. He discovers that these allow him to stare into a painting and manipulate things from afar.
Konrad finds himself on an unexpected adventure as a result of the sunglasses, which also allow him to enter a painting.
The descriptions of life inside a painting were fabulous, complete with brushstrokes and an alternative reality.
Could these sunglasses allow Konrad to sort out the school bully once and for all?

I enjoyed the narrator, Amy Vance, though she could have put a little more excitement in her voice, given that her target audience is children.

As yet my grandchildren are too young, but I look forward to sharing this audiobook with them in a few years.

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