In the House of the Queen's Beasts by Jean Thesman

Green cloth with gilt on spine, headband, no names, minor edge wear, illustrated end papers, (xii) 208 pages with around 40 colour illustrations, also with b & w illustrations through out, dust jacket is in Very Good Plus with faint edge wear. Illustrated by Diane Goode (illustrator). Category: Children Childrens Fiction Fantasy Britain/UK Fiction. illustrated by colour drawings throughout. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. After sixty years trapped in stone, five of the Queen's Beasts have been freed! Can Lizzie help the other Beasts escape too? And what will happen if she does? Size: 4to - over 9Â¾' - 12' tall. She finds something magical is happening. When the gates close, she goes exploring. Lizzie lives in the park keeper's cottage in Kew Gardens. Signed on the pre-title page by the author, the illustrator & by Tom Hiscocks. A story based on original artworks of the Queen's Beasts created by Tom Hiscocks.

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Moonstones is part love story and part Family Feud, but not terribly engaging in either case.Ĭopyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. But who cares? This dysfunctional, but not-quite-ready-for-the-Jerry-Springer-show family is just too annoying and clueless for readers to tolerate very long. The plot centers around an old family dispute between Norma and Abby that is now about to repeat itself in the next generation. The characterizations, especially of those two, are flat and one-dimensional. Ricki and her mother are two of the most irritating literary characters readers will ever meet.

When daring and spoiled cousin Ricki arrives, she drops her clothes and belongings all over the floor, leaves a trail of junk food from the kitchen to her bedroom, talks back, whines constantly, and somehow convinces Jane to sneak out at night to the amusement park to meet Carey and his friends. What does attract Jane's attention is Carey Boone, a boy who lives in town. Jane is not thrilled with being in Royal Bay or with the prospect of Aunt Norma and cousin Ricki's arrival to claim their fair share. Complications in the person of Abby's sister, Norma, have held up the final disposition for two years.

Grade 8-10-After the death of Jane Douglas's grandmother, she and her mother, Abby, travel to Royal Bay near the Puget Sound to settle the estate and sell the property.

In the House of the Queen's Beasts by Jean Thesman