Books Details
Author : M.T. Anderson Pages : 525 pages Publisher : Candlewick
Press Language : eng ISBN-10 : 0763698229 ISBN-13 :
9780763698225
Books Descriptions
Subverting convention, award-winning creators M. T. Anderson
and Eugene Yelchin pair up for an anarchic, outlandish, and
deeply political saga of warring elf and goblin
kingdoms.Uptight elfin historian Brangwain Spurge is on a
mission: survive being catapulted across the mountains into
goblin territory, deliver a priceless peace offering to their
mysterious dark lord, and spy on the goblin kingdom ? from
which no elf has returned alive in more than a hundred years.
Brangwain?s host, the goblin archivist Werfel, is delighted to
show Brangwain around. They should be the best of friends, but
a series of extraordinary double crosses, blunders, and
cultural misunderstandings throws these two bumbling scholars
into the middle of an international crisis that may spell death
for them ? and war for their nations. Witty mixed media
illustrations show Brangwain?s furtive missives back to the elf
kingdom, while Werfel?s determinedly unbiased narrative tells
an entirely different story. A
