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DescriptionNight falls and Cat Country comes to life: town walls turn into roads, roof and treetop become mountain and field. The black cat Carbonel and his consort, Queen Blandamour, have long reigned over this magical place, where humans are scarce, cats roam freely, and the rivers flow with cream. But the wicked Grisana, a beautiful gray Persian who makes Lady Macbeth look like a lap cat, has plans of her own for Cat Country, and Carbonel and his children, Prince Calidor and Princess Pergamond, are all that stand between her and the throne. With the backing of Carbonel's old foe, the witch Mrs. Cantrip, and her apprentice, Miss Dibdin, Grisana may be unstoppable. Author descriptionBarbara Sleigh (1906--1982) is the author of "Carbonel: The King of The Cats "(The New York Review Children's Collection, 2004) and its two sequels, "The Kingdom of Carbonel "and "Carbonel and Calidor "(to be published by The New York Review Children's Collection in 2010). She worked for the BBC's "Children's Hour." Besides being a well-known illustrator of children's books, Richard Kennedy (1910--1989) worked in oils and watercolors. He went to work for Leonard and Virginia Woolf at their embryonic Hogarth Press in 1926, at the age of sixteen, and was propelled into Bloomsbury life. He is the author of "A Boy at Hogarth Press," an illustrated diary of his years there. |