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John, Jack, and Charles (who met nine years ago when they became Caretakers of the Imaginarium Geographica, an atlas of all the lands we think of as imaginary) have come together again. Someone is kidnapping the children of the Archipelago of Dreams - and the legendary Dragonships, which can cross between the two worlds, have disappeared. Their search takes them from Sir James Barrie and Peter Pan, to Jason and the Argonauts, Medea, the Pied Piper of Hamelin, and much more! An inventive, magical adventure that will keep readers riveted.
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By: James A. Owen
Imprint: Simon & Schuster
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm
Weight: 314g
ISBN:
9781847382160
ISBN 10: 1847382169
Series: Imaginarium Geographica
Pages: 384
Publication Date: May 2008
Audience: Children / Juvenile , 12+ years
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In stock at Galaxy Bookshop
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James A Owen is the creator of the critically acclaimed Starchild graphic novel series, and is the founder and director of the Coppervale Studio in Silvertown, Arizona, where he lives with his wife and family.
Narrative tension can't save this sequel from glaring flaws. Nine years have passed since John, Jack and Charles had their last Archipelago adventure in Here There Be Dragons (2006), but now they must return to save the world from a child-stealing villain. There's simply no child or YA audience for this text - the adult protagonists mock adolescence, and the child characters are lisping feral innocents. Thematically concerned with superior adulthood (much of the adventure takes place in the Archipelago's version of Neverland crossed with Dante's Inferno), this adventure is positively hostile to a young readership. Like the previous volume, this entry mixes mythology, fairy tale and folklore, intertwining Daedalus with Peter Pan, Arthur with the Pied Piper, Narnia with the lost Roanoke colony. The result might have been coherent had it been well-constructed, but clumsy moments, such as a classically trained character misattributing a John F. Kennedy quotation to Dante, shatter the story's conceit. Moreover, when one of the story's villains asks the heroes why the Caretaker position has been reserved mostly for light-skinned Europeans, his brutal villainy makes a mockery of the question. In this world, raising concerns about elitism and racism is something done only by a foolish despot. Full of unmet potential. (Fantasy. YA) (Kirkus Reviews)
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