Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell 2 Books Collection Set(Impossible Creatures & The Poisoned King)

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Titles in the Set:

Impossible Creatures
The Poisoned King

Condition:BRAND NEW
Format:Hardcover
ISBN:9780491185660

Impossible Creatures:

There’s a place where all the wildest stories began The first novel in the award winning and globally best-selling Impossible Creatures series is the story of two children’s epic adventure to transform the world. This edition includes The Centaur’s Spectacles bonus short story.Christopher is stunned when he discovers a Way-Between from our world to the Archipelago: a cluster of magical islands where all the creatures of myth still live and breed and thrive in their thousands. There he meets Mal: a girl from the islands, who is in possession of a flying coat and a baby griffin, and who is being pursued by a killer. Together they embark on an urgent quest to discover why the creatures are suddenly perishing, voyaging across the wild splendour of the Archipelago, where sphinxes hold secrets and centaurs do murder, in a bid to save both the islands and the world beyond them from a rising evil before it’s too late.

The Poisoned King:

When Christopher Forrester is unexpectedly woken by a miniature dragon chewing on his face, his heart leaps for joy. For months he’s dreamed of returning to the Archipelago the secret islands where all the creatures of myth still live. But he did not know it would involve a rescue mission on the back of a sphinx, or a plan to enter a dragon’s lair. Nor did he imagine it would involve a girl with a flock of birds at her side, a new-hatched chick in her pocket and a ravenous hunger for justice…

About the Author:

Katherine Rundell (born 10 July 1987) is an English author and academic. She is the author of Impossible Creatures, named Waterstones Book of the Year for 2023.[1] She is also the author of Rooftoppers, which in 2015 won both the overall Waterstones Children’s Book Prize and the Blue Peter Book Award for Best Story, and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal.

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