The Secret of Platform 13
| Bezeichnung | Wert |
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| Titel |
The Secret of Platform 13
Das Geheimnis von Bahnsteig 13 |
| Verfasserangabe |
Eva Ibbotson
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| Verlag | |
| Ort |
London
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| Umfang |
185 S.
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| ISBN10 |
0-330-39801-6
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| Annotation |
Gr. 4 - 7. What's a "gump," you ask? Why, it's a grassy bump that's actually a hidden door. Every nine years it opens--for nine days--to reveal a tunnel to another world, a magical island "so beautiful that it [takes] the breath away." Every country has a gump, it seems; Great Britain's is located under platform 13 in an abandoned railway station near the River Thames. Nine years before this story starts, the island's baby prince had been kidnapped when, on a lark, his nurses took him through the tunnel to London. Now it's time to bring him back. Entrusted with this responsibility is an unlikely group of rescuers: an ancient wizard, a fey, a yodeling ogre, and a very young hag named Odge. What chance do they have against the vast wealth and resources of the kidnapper, Mrs. Trottle, whose favorite perfume is called Maneater? Not much, frankly, especially since they're pledged not to use magic. But, then, if it were an even match, there wouldn't be much of a story. As it is, the plotting is occasionally a bit perfunctory--readers will spot a narrative-driving case of mistaken identity almost immediately--but fantasy lovers will probably excuse that for the sake of the author's ironic wit and her skill at introducing an amazing variety of supernatural, folkloric, and imagined entities who never fail to excite the readers' imagination and sympathy (and adults will enjoy meeting a certain former prime minister thinly disguised as an especially brisk Harpy with a handbag!)
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