Name: The Travelling Restaurant By Barbara Else
SKU: 9781877467776
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The Travelling Restaurant Summary

The Travelling Restaurant by Barbara Else

In the reign of Lady Gall (Provisional Monarch of Fontania), the word magic is forbidden...When 12 year old Jasper Ludlow's parents flee the city, he gets left behind. He finds refuge on The Travelling Restaurant, a sailing ship captained by old Dr Rocket and crewed by feisty Polly. Where is Jasper's baby sister? He journeys across seas and rivers, and faces whirlpools, storms and hungry pirates to find her. Who should he trust - his unreliable uncle, the mysterious journalist in black, or the gutsy, flute-playing orphan? Why did his parents abandon him? Who is the true monarch? Why is Lady Gall hunting him?

The Travelling Restaurant Reviews

Just an enchantment...this is one of the best fantasy books I've read in several years and certainly the best New Zealand fantasy book in a long time...

-- National Radio New Zealand

The Traveling Restaurant was both exciting and funny. This mid-grade reacher is sure to be a favourite at any family's read-aloud story time.

-- Netgalley

Blending humor, suspense, and poignancy, this absorbing fantasy-adventure features an engaging, everyday protagonist who discovers courage, resourcefulness, and confidence in the face of familiar and fantastical events.

-- Booklist (US)

About Barbara Else

Barbara Else is the author of numerous bestselling adult novels and books for children, and has edited a number of collections of stories for children, as well as an anthology in which top New Zealand writers talk about grandparenthood. With her husband, writer Chris Else, Barbara runs TFS, a Wellington-based literary agency and assessment service. See more at www.elseware.co.nz or follow her blog at www.TalesofFontania.com. The New Zealand Herald reviewer, commenting on the 'quieter, deeper' humour in Barbra's writing, said it is 'found in her dark, sardonic point of skew, in her quirky, wry vignettes that are a fond satire of modern middle class life and those who live it ...' Her first novel, The Warrior Queen, was shortlisted for the Montana New Zealand Book Awards. Her children's fiction has won a host of awards, including a 2012 White Raven Award and the 2012 NZ IBBY for The Travelling Restaurant. She was the Victoria University of Wellington Writer in Residence for 1999, received a Creative New Zealand Scholarship in Letters in 2004, and was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to literature in 2005.

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Sku

GOR004692860

ISBN 13

9781877467776

ISBN 10

1877467774

Title

The Travelling Restaurant by Barbara Else

Author

Barbara Else

Series

Tales of Fontania

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Gecko Press

Year published

20110401

Number of pages

304

Prizes

Winner of New Zealand Honour Award for Writing 2012 (Switzerland) Winner of White Raven Award 2012 (Germany) Winner of Honour Award 2012 (New Zealand) Winner of Esther Glen Junior Fiction Award 2012 (New Zealand) Joint winner of Notable Junior Fiction 2012 (New Zealand)

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This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

The Travelling Restaurant Barbara Else

The Travelling Restaurant by Barbara Else

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The Travelling Restaurant by Barbara Else

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