The story entails the bride of the fictional Lord St. Simon disappearing on the day of their marriage.
The events of the wedding day are most perplexing to Lord St. Simon, as it seemed to him that his bride, Miss Hatty Doran of San Francisco, was full of enthusiasm about their impending marriage. Lord St. Simon tells Holmes that he noticed a change in the young lady's mood just after the wedding ceremony. She was uncharacteristically sharp with him.
“A bluebear has 27 lives. I shall recount thirtreen-and-a-half of them in this book but keep quiet about the rest,” says the narrator of Walter Moers’s epic adventure. “Mine is a tale of mortal danger and eternal love, of hair’s breadth, last-minute escapes….”
Welcome to the fantastic world of Zamonia, populated by all manner of extraordinary characters, including Minipirates, Hobgoblins, Babbling Billows, the Spiderwitch, the Troglotroll, and the Mountain Maggot. It’s a land of imaginative lunacy and supreme adventure, wicked satire and epic fantasy, all mixed together and turned on its head.
Every so often, an epic adventure emerges that makes the blood surge, the spine tingle, and the heart smile page after exhilarating page. Such is Whill of Agora, Michael James Ploof’s action-packed fantasy that visits strange new lands as it unveils how one exceptional young man named Whill makes full use of fierce wits, superior skills, and relentless will to help defend the land of Agora from the monstrous Draggard. With plenty of drama and action packed battle scenes, Whill of Agora will enthrall anyone on the quest for great adventure, good times, and an infectiously optimistic outlook on even the darkest and most dangerous of days.
This is one of six short stories with plenty of activities for children to do as and after they read, encouraging them to become active readers. A picture dictionary and project ideas are provided at the back of each book.
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