Cinnamon
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- 8,49 €
Publisher Description
A beautiful picture-book fairytale from the global bestselling author of Coraline and The Graveyard Book
'The lush strangeness of the tale and the beauty of its illustrations remain richly memorable.' Guardian
In a hot, hot country, ringed with mountains on one side and jungle on the other, lives a princess called Cinnamon. Her eyes are made of pearls, which means that she is blind. And, for reasons her parents the Rajah and Rani cannot fathom, she will not talk.
So they offer a reward to anyone who can teach Cinnamon to speak. People travel from far and wide to attempt it, but nothing works. Until a mighty tiger, huge and fierce, prowls into their palace and announces that he is here to teach the girl-cub to talk ...
A mighty fable from Neil Gaiman, winner of the Newbery and Carnegie Medals, illustrated in vivid colour by up-and-coming talent Divya Srinivasan
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Cinnamon, the heroine of this Just So style story, lives in a magnificent palace, wears an orange sari, and has pearls for eyes, "which gave her great beauty, but meant she was blind." Cinnamon doesn't talk, and her parents, the Rajah and Rani, offer gifts to those who can get her to speak. All fail until a tiger appears: "He was huge and fierce, a nightmare in black and orange, and he moved like a god through the world, which is how tigers move." Though the family is skeptical, he begins to teach Cinnamon: "The tiger put Cinnamon's hand into his. Pain,' said the tiger, and he extended one needle-sharp claw into Cinnamon's hand." The heat of Gaiman's prose, which switches from fairy tale romance to farce and back again, stands in contrast to Srinivasan's (Little Owl's Night) cool spreads, which concentrate on the beauty of the Indian setting, her flat, graphic shapes ornamented with lacy filigree. This isn't a comforting tale, but its effect is real: Gaiman puts a claw right into the reader's hand. Ages 4 8.
