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364 pp.
| NYRB
| April, 2004
|
TradeISBN 1-59017-100-4$16.95 Reissue (1945, Macmillan)
(2)
4-6
New York Review Children's Collection series.
Illustrated by
Nicolas Bentley.
In this reissue of a Carnegie Award winner two sisters drink a magic potion that turns them into kangaroos, help a puma and a falcon regain their freedom, solve the mystery of a disappearing ostrich egg, and rescue their imprisoned father from an evil tyrant. This wildly inventive British fantasy begs to be read aloud.
Reviewer: Terri Schmitz
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
March, 1945
1 reviews
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