The Hotel Under the Sand - Brossura

Baker, Kage

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1892391899 ISBN 13: 9781892391896

Casa editrice: Tachyon Pubns, 2009

Riassunto

Appealing to boys and girls alike, this beguiling adventure explores classic fantasy themes from a unique young heroine’s perspective. Nine-year-old Emma loses everything she has in a fearsome storm and finds herself alone in the wilderness of the Dunes?an area desolate since the mysterious disappearance of a resort known as the Grand Wenlocke. Finding a friend in Winston, the ghostly bellboy who wanders the Dunes, Emma learns that it has been more than 100 years since the hotel with an unsavory reputation vanished; but, unbeknownst to either of them, the long slumbering resort has just begun to stir. Allying herself with a motley crew of companions?the ghost bellboy, a kindhearted cook, a pirate with a heart of gold, and the imperious young heir to the Wenlocke fortune?Emma soon learns that things are not always as lost as they seem, especially if you have a brave heart and good friends.

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Wow! I read The Hotel Under the Sand with delight and joy. It’s wonderful, wacky and spooky, and serious and FUN. It also strikes me as utterly original (which is quite rare ”
Diana Wynne Jones, author of Howl’s Moving Castle

Kage Baker’s The Hotel Under the Sand will grab you on page one and never let you go until you finish reading and beg for more.”
Richard A. Lupoff, author of Marblehead

I read it all in one sitting, enjoying the characters and the well-crafted plot very much, and want to read it soon to my granddaughters. Kage Baker used the fantasy structure with a light touch, reassuring but exciting...”
Cecilia Holland, author of Until the Sun Falls

...charming...Baker’s first book for younger readers is a delight.”
Denver Post

...skillfully written....”
Publishers Weekly

Kage Baker is already well-known among adult readers for her science-fiction series The Company, but her new children’s book The Hotel Under the Sand is bound to win her plenty of new readers among the younger set.”
Omivoracious.com

Refreshingly original.... Although Baker is an established author of science fiction and fantasy for adults, this novel is written so naturally that it is difficult to believe
it is her debut for younger readers.”
VOYA Library Journal

There are few books that I immediately want to press into the hands of other readers the instant I turn the last page. My copy of Hotel will be one that I hand to my daughter in a few years. First, however, I’m going to force it on everybody I know.”
Locus

It’s exciting to come upon a book that serves not only as a great story to share with your kids, but one that has some undeniably unusual and geeky features.”
Wired.com

...a strangely delightful story.”
Charlotte’s Library

The Hotel Under the Sand is the kind of book that you resolve to send to your nieces and nephews even before you have finished the first page.”
Reading the Leaves

I just wanted more!”
Fantasy Book Critic

I would strongly recommend it for fans of Roald Dahl and readers who are still young at heart.”
SF Crowsnest

L'autore:

Kage Baker is an actor, a director, a playwright, and a teacher of Elizabethan English as a second language. She is the author of Black Projects, White Nights; The Children of the Company; Gods and Pawns; The Graveyard Game; In the Garden of Iden; The Life of the World to Come; The Machine's Child; Mendoza in Hollywood; Sky Coyote; and The Son's of Heaven. She lives in Pismo Beach, California.

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• Editore: Tachyon Pubns
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1892391899
• ISBN 13: 9781892391896
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 179
• Disegnatore: Law Stephanie Pui-mun