The Kingdom and the Cave
Author(s): Joan Aiken
'The Under People. They live in a huge Cave. They are thought to be boring upwards. Giant worms and flying ants. Underground magic.'
Mickle, the palace cat, knows something is wrong. He can feel it in his whiskers. Then he finds scribbled notes revealing that the kingdom in danger. (Yes, of course he can read. And speak - when he chooses to!) Mickle can't trust the King and Queen with his mission, so he approaches Prince Michael and together, with the wise old mare Minerva, they set out on a perilous search to find the sinister Under People before they can invade Astalon.
PUBLICATION JANUARY 2016
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Joan Aiken's invention seemed inexhaustible, her high spirits a blessing, her sheer storytelling zest a phenomenon. She was a literary treasure -- Philip Pullman It is the mixture of irrepressible gaiety and invention with the tragic that makes Aiken one of the great children's authors...impossible to calculate the number of people who have enjoyed her books - who have had some magic injected into the mundane She was a consummate story-teller, one that each generation discovers anew -- Amanda Craig The Times A writer of wild humour and unrestrained imagination Oxford Companion to Children's Literature
Joan Aiken MBE was was a multi award winning English writer specialising in fiction for children. She won the Guardian's Children's Fiction Prize in 1968 for The Whispering Mountain and an Edgar Allen Poe award for Nightfall. In 1999 she was awarded an MBE for her services to Children's Literature. In her lifetime, she produced over 100 books.
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- : Little, Brown Book Group
- : Virago Press Ltd
- : 0.15
- : 05 November 2015
- : 198mm X 127mm X 13mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
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- : Joan Aiken
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : Peter Bailey
- : en
- : 823.914
- : 192