The Glass Town Game by Catherynne M Valente & Illustrated by Rebecca Green
Brand: Margaret K. McElderry Books
Product Description
A Parents Choice Gold Award Winner Dazzling. Publishers Weekly starred review Charlotte and Emily Bront enter a fantasy world that they invented in order to rescue their siblings in this lovely fanciful Booklist starred review novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making. Inside a small Yorkshire parsonage Charlotte Branwell Emily and Anne Bront have invented a game called Glass Town where their toy soldiers fight Napoleon and no one dies. This makebelieve land helps the four escape from a harsh reality Charlotte and Emily are being sent away to a dangerous boarding school. But then something incredible happens a train whisks them all away to a real Glass Town and the children trade the moors for a wonderland all their own. This is their Glass Town...almost. Their Napoleon never rode into battle on a firebreathing porcelain rooster. And the soldiers can die wars are fought over a potion that raises the dead a potion Anne would very much like to bring back to England. But returning is out of the questionCharlotte will never go back to that horrible school. Together the Bront siblings must battle their own imaginations in this magical celebration of authorship creativity and classic literature from awardwinning author Catherynne M. Valente. show more
Condition : New
Author : Catherynne M Valente Illustrated By Rebecca Green
Weight : 551
Publisher : Margaret K. McElderry Books
Language : English
EAN : 9781481476973
ISBN10 : 1481476971
Format : Paperback
Date of Publication : 20161101
Place of Publication : NA
Pagination : NA
Dimensions : 140 X 206 X 41mm