IMPOSSIBLE CREATURES : THERE WAS TOLKIEN, THERE IS PULLMAN AND NOW THERE IS KATHERINE RUNDELL – MICHAEL MORPURGO

There was Tolkien, there is Pullman and now there is Katherine Rundell. Wondrous invention, marvellous writing. Michael Morpurgo* BRITISH BOOK AWARDS CHILDRENS FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR * WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER * BOOKS ARE MY BAG READERS AWARD WINNER * FOYLES CHILDRENS BOOK OF THE YEAR * SHORTLISTED FOR AMAZON KIDS AND YA BOOK OF THE YEARTheres 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 childrens epic adventure to transform the world. This edition includes The Centaurs 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 its too late. * THE TIMES CHILDRENS BOOK OF THE WEEK * THE INDEPENDENT CHILDRENS BOOK OF THE WEEK * THE DAILY TELEGRAPH CHILDRENS BOOK OF THE WEEK * SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER IN SEPTEMBER 2023A book stuffed full of fantastical, magical delight, and a world of richly imagined wonder Cressida CowellRundells first foray into fantasy is both a deft, rich homage to the greats of childrens literature and an absorbing, profoundly poignant quest story for those aged 9+ quite possibly her best yet The GuardianA marvellous, imaginative fantasy told with great style and sparkle a book to race through in a day and keep for a lifetime Jacqueline Wilson The world of this new book is so intriguing and so well put together that I couldn