Hotel Balzaar

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

AvKate DiCamillo

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In a wise and magical follow-up to the critically acclaimed The Puppets of Spelhorst, Kate DiCamillo revisits the land of Norendy, where tales swirl within tales – and where every moment is a story in the making.At the Hotel Balzaar, Marta’s mother rises before the sun, puts on her uniform and instructs her to roam as she will ... but quietly – invisibly – like a mouse. While her mother cleans rooms, Marta slips down the back staircase to the grand lobby to chat with the bellman, study the painting of an angel’s wing over the fireplace, and watch a cat chase a mouse around the face of the grandfather clock, all while dreaming of the return of her soldier father. One day, a mysterious countess with a parrot checks in, promising a story – in fact, seven stories in all. As the stories unfold, Marta begins to wonder: could the secret to her father’s disappearance lie in the countess’s tales?

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2024-11-07
Mått142 x 200 x 20 mm
Vikt260 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieNorendy Tales
Antal sidor160
FörlagWalker Books Ltd
IllustratörSardà, Júlia, Sarda, Julia
ISBN9781529523782
UtmärkelserNominated for Heartland Booksellers Award 2025 (United States)

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Kate DiCamillo is one of America’s most beloved storytellers, author of The Tale of Despereaux and Flora and Ulysses, both of which have been awarded the prestigious Newbery Medal; Because of Winn-Dixie, which received a Newbery Honor; The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, which won a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award; and the bestselling Mercy Watson series. Born in Philadelphia, she grew up in Florida and now lives in Minneapolis, USA, where she faithfully writes two pages a day, five days a week.

[Kate DiCamillo’s] Norendy fairytales are an acquired taste. They are odd, cool and detached […] Each piece of the puzzle is perfectly polished and they all fit in the end — just not necessarily in the way you expect. I absolutely love them […] The artwork is by JúliaSardà, the Spanish artist who is fast becoming the go-to illustrator for all the best edgy, off-kilter children’s stories. Her countess looks like a fabulous art deco aristocrat, worthy of a Tamara de Lempicka painting.