THE POISONED KING
'Katherine Rundell returns with a perfect fantasy' Telegraph
The unmissable new story in the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling Impossible Creatures series, for fans of Philip Pullman, Percy Jackson and Skandar.
'There was Tolkien, there is Pullman and now there is Katherine Rundell' - Michael Morpurgo
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...
Edad recomendada: A partir de 10 años.
RUNDELL KATHERINE
Kent, Inglaterra, 1987 ha vivido en Harare, Bruselas y Londres. Es autora de las novelas Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms 2014 , The Wolf Wilder 2015 y Sophie en los cielos de París 2014 , con la que ha conseguido numerosos reconocimentos y premios, entre los que se cuentan el Waterstones Children's Book y el Blue Peter Book. Es profesora asociada en el All Souls College de Oxford y en su tiempo libre disfruta practicando el funambulismo y encaramándose a los tejados de las facultades de la universidad.
