Clabbernappers
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- 10,99 €
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- 10,99 €
Publisher Description
Clabbernappers is thrilling high comic adventure from a remarkable new writer.
King Krystal of Elidor has a serious problem: Sarksa Pirates have captured the Queen! Desperate for her return, King Krystal summons a hero from the Dream Machine. Enter Danny Ray, the best dang rodeo cowboy in Oklahoma. The only problem? He's only an eleven-year-old boy--not quite the hero the Elidorians expected.
But Danny Ray aims to prove them wrong by recapturing the Queen. How? Truth is, Danny Ray isn't quite sure. Luckily he will have lots of help from friends like Captain Quigglewigg, the Sultana, Lord Yellow, Princess Eliana and--of course--the Clabbernappers.
On his breathtaking adventure across the Checkered Sea, Danny will encounter lots of exotic creatures, including Coal Trolls, Gimmion Gott, the Potter Wasp, the Red Bats, Tantarrabobs and the Ghost of Buckholly Harbor. His battles will pit him against the Sarska Pirates, the Nightmare Queen...and the evil King Dru-Mordeloch.
"Bailey's rousing adventure, first in a planned series, will appeal to young chess lovers and pirate fans alike." - Booklist
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Bailey's debut novel introduces Danny Ray, "the best dang rodeo cowboy in Oklahoma," by his own admission. All swagger and confidence, he cannot resist when a carny shows him a door simply labeled "Adventure." Danny finds himself in the kingdom of Elidor, where the Queen has just been kidnapped. The King believes that Danny Ray was sent to him by "the engine in dreams," and so Danny Ray is tapped, along with an insufferable prince and a pair of two-faced lords, to rescue her. The cowboy must bring back the queen in two weeks, lest Elidor fall to "dark, faraway Trowland." Their journey takes them to the Checkered Sea, a vast expanse of marble that is home to titanic coal-powered chess pieces; a garbage-trawling rook picks up Danny Ray and the Prince, which leads to an extended battle with some 10-feet-tall pirates with a "whiplike tail" and "sharp barbed jaws." Those who are attracted to Danny Ray's plucky cowboy attitude ("It's a bet then?" he asks a ghost, "If I can do something you can't, then you'll skedaddle with your two spooky Halloween friends, and leave us alone?") and over-the-top dialect will find this a fun, fast read with an honest, effective ending. Ages 10-up.
