Otto and the Flying Twins - Softcover

Haptie, Charlotte

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0340854766 ISBN 13: 9780340854761

Verlag: Hodder Children's Books, 2003

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Críticas:

Enchanting ... will delight anyone who believes in magic ... This tale has powerful emotions and poignancy as well as charm and magic (The Good Book Guide)

Utterly delightful (Daily Mail)

A truly magical tale (Family Focus)

A sophisticated, elliptical fantasy that does not read like anything you have come across before. It will reward youngsters who rise to the challenge with its magic, warmth and excitement (The Sunday Times)

Warmly colourful and imbued with a sense of delight ... This book is one to love and return to with affection (The Childrens Book Magazine, Ireland)

This fantastical adventure romps along with magical events occurring thick and fast (School Librarian)

A mixture of humour and extravagant action ... a very thoughtful book (Books For Keeps)

A sophisticated, elliptical fantasy that does not read like anything you have come across before. It will reward youngsters ... with its magic, warmth and excitement. (The Sunday Times)

A mixture of humour and extravagant action, this attractive fantasy is accessible ... but it is a very thoughtful book, and underlying its invention and suspense are other layers of meaning. (BfK)

Romps along...Haptie has taken a serious theme...as her framework, which gives this quirky debut a serious and valid undercurrent (TES)

Reseña del editor:

Otto is our endearingly bewildered young hero whose world suddenly becomes very odd. Going with his father, Albert, to the FireBox Launderette, Albert is called to help with 'failing machinery' and is seen by Otto calming a purple dragon in the back room. When his baby sisters start to fly, his grandmother becomes a unicorn, and street waifs fly along the street at night on magic carpets pursued by the new Normal Police force, life becomes odder and scarier. Otto learns - often riotously - that his city and his family are very special indeed.

Here the last remaining magical people - the Karmidee - are living as an underclass of pedlars and tinkers, known as the 'magicos'. But legend tells of a King, birthmarked with a butterfly, who will save the Karmidee from extinction. Particularly from the new Minister for Modernisation, Councillor Elfina Crink. With her Impossible List and Normal Police, she is determined to stamp out the Karmidee spirit. As repression intensifies, the Karmidee and their powers go underground, but their magic bursts out in the most unexpected places as a bid for freedom, with surprising, hilarious and extraordinary results.

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• Verlag: Hodder Children's Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0340854766
• ISBN 13: 9780340854761
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320