The Adventures of Anatole

By: Nancy Willard

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Paperback | 20 November 2018

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Paperback
344 Pages

Age
5 - 9

Grade
K - P

Dimensions(cm)
19.2 x 13.3 x 2.0

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Newbery Medal-winning author Nancy Willard's trilogy of adventure tales, now in one volume. Children won't be able to put down these stories of the journeys of a boy and his orange cat, Plumpet.

Newbery Medal-winning author Nancy Willard's trilogy of adventure tales, now in one volume. Children won't be able to put down these stories of the journeys of a boy and his orange cat, Plumpet.

Anatole has a knack for seeking and finding adventure, often with Plumpet, hisorange cat, who is accustomed to ghost trains, amnesiac soldiers, flying horses,and wallpaper portals, just a few of the enchantments encountered along the way.From his perilous search for wild fennel to cure his grandmother's asthma, to hishigh-stakes game of checkers to save his uncle from a wizard's evil spell, Anatole'smissions will keep young readers turning the pages of this omnibus edition ofthe Newbery Medal-winning author Nancy Willard's trilogy of fantasy tales-Sailing to Cythera, The Island of the Grass King, and Uncle Terrible. David McPhail'spen-and-ink illustrations throughout are beautifully detailed engagements withWillard's world of make-believe. Anatole may be small but he is determined toright the wrongs he finds in each of the lands he enters. Whether kindness or evilwill prevail is a matter of suspense, but Anatole is always on the side of the light.

Industry Reviews

"Nancy Willard's imagination--in verse or prose, for children or adults--builds castles stranger than any mad King of Bavaria ever built. She imagines with a wonderful concreteness. But also, she takes real language and by literal-mindedness turns it into the structure of dream." --Donald Hall, The New York Times

"Both author and illustrator weave tapestries in which make-believe and reality blend joyfully...The only works comparable in pure romance and humor to the Anatole stories are the inventions of Lewis Carroll." --Publishers Weekly

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