Spindle's End

Robin McKinley (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

464 Seiten

2011
Corgi Childrens (Verlag)
9780552563437 (ISBN)

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An exceptional retelling of The Sleeping Beauty which takes the reader into a magical world filled with modern characters, encountering adventure, love and loss. No-one, not even an extremely powerful and evil fairy who is out for the princess's blood, would give Rosie a second glance.

An exceptional retelling of The Sleeping Beauty which takes the reader into a magical world filled with modern characters, encountering adventure, love and loss. Rosie is very, very ordinary. No-one, not even an extremely powerful and evil fairy who is out for the princess's blood, would give Rosie a second glance. But then, even Rosie doesn't know the secret of her own birth...and she cannot be hidden forever as her twenty-first birthday approaches. The curse placed on her at her christening will hunt her down through the years, gathering strength, and at some point a princess must become a queen, even if she would rather just stay ordinary-

Robin McKinley is an American writer and has won many awards in the US, including the Newbery Medal for THE HERO AND THE CROWN and a Newbery Honor for THE BLUE SWORD. She now lives in Hampshire with her husband, author Peter Dickinson, three whippets, five hundred rose bushes and a 1965 cream-coloured MGB convertible.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	27.1.2011
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Gewicht	321 g
Themenwelt	Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Jugendbücher ab 12 Jahre
Themenwelt	Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Kinderbücher bis 11 Jahre
ISBN-13	9780552563437 / 9780552563437
Zustand	Neuware