CHILDREN'S
Released: Sept. 1, 2004
"Perfectly unusual, perfectly lovely. (Fiction. 8-12)"
When the invalided Mr. Franklin engages Bet, his housekeeper's young granddaughter, to read aloud to no one in particular in the meadow outside his house, she soon discovers that she is, in fact, reading aloud to a mole—no ordinary mole, but a magicked mole, who has been cursed with eternal life and the capacity for human intelligence and speech.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Sept. 1, 2003
"And so unwinds a tale with twists and turns, full of forbidden soup and ladles, rats lusting for mouse blood, a servant who wishes to be a princess, a knight in shining—or, at least, furry—armor, and all the ingredients of an old-fashioned drama. (Fiction. 7-12)"
Dear reader, light your lamp and listen to the tale of Despereaux, the last mouse born of Antoinette.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: March 1, 2003
"May his readers be legion. (Fiction. 10+)"
Buccaneers and privateers, Carib hunters with poisoned darts, killer sharks, fiends, angels, and insane Captain Vanderdecken of the ghost ship Flying Dutchman converge in this rousing second installment in Jacques's Castaways of the Flying Dutchman (2001).
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