The Box of Delights: Or When the Wolves Were Running (Kay Harker) - Hardcover

Masefield, John

 
9781590172513: The Box of Delights: Or When the Wolves Were Running (Kay Harker)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1590172515 ISBN 13: 9781590172513
Verlag: NYR Children's Collection, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

Strange things begin to happen the minute young Kay Harker boards the train to go home for Christmas and finds himself under observation by two very shifty-looking characters. Arriving at his destination, the boy is immediately accosted by a bright-eyed old man with a mysterious message: “The wolves are running.” Soon danger is everywhere, as a gang of criminals headed by the notorious wizard Abner Brown and his witch wife Sylvia Daisy Pouncer gets to work. What does Abner Brown want? The magic box that the old man has entrusted to Kay, which allows him to travel freely not only in space but in time, too. The gang will stop at nothing to carry out their plan, even kidnapping Kay’s friend, the tough little Maria Jones, and threatening to cancel Christmas celebrations altogether. But with the help of his allies, including an intrepid mouse, a squadron of Roman soldiers, the legendary Herne the Hunter, and the inventor of the Box of Delights himself, Kay just may be able rescue his friend, foil Abner Brown’s plot, and save Christmas, too.

At once a thriller, a romp, and a spellbinding fantasy, The Box of Delights is a great English children’s book and a perfect Christmas treat.

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John Masefield (1878—1967) was an English poet and writer, and Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1930 until his death. He is remembered as the author of the classic children's novels The Midnight Folk and The Box of Delights, two novels Captain Margaret and Multitude and Solitude and a great deal of poetry, including his anthology Saltwater Ballads.

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Verlag
NYR Children's Collection
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1590172515
ISBN 13 
9781590172513
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Zeichner
Masefield Judith
Anzahl der Seiten
312
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