ISBN: 9780803733756
Read November 15, 2013
Juv: quirky quest adventure.
Very similar in nature and tone to Tuesdays at the Castle, and very nearly as good.
Persimmony
Smudge is the exact opposite of her dutiful drudge of a sister Prunella
(LOVE the names); she is a dreamer, an adventurer, a thinker.
She is, in other words, the perfect person for an
Adventure. But somehow in all of her ten years, she's never had one,
even though her father (missing for nearly those entire ten years) was a
noted adventurer himself. Her mother and sister are decidedly
anti-adventure, but that only spurs Persimmony on to higher reaches of
imagination.
Her imagination fails to match reality when she gets
lost in the woods and overhears the feared underground Leafeaters
plotting against the king. Now she and fellow adventurers Worvil (the
worried) and Theodore (the wise creater of magical pots) have to save
the kingdom, despite the niggling fact that the twelve-year-old king is
more than a little bit of a brat, and perhaps not actually worth saving
after all.
Also, there's a very lovely big giant, who reminded
me strongly and beautifully of the giant Time, fast asleep under Narnia,
waiting for the end of the world.
Great characters, madcap plotting, somewhat uneven pacing.
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