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Del Rey
June 2008
On Sale: June 17, 2008
Featuring: Paul Dear
304 pages
ISBN: 0345501594
EAN: 9780345501592
Hardcover
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Fantasy | Young Adult Adventure
Paul Dear is a good and clever boy, doted on by a father who fills his sonβs head with tall tales, thrilling legends, and talk of fairy-folk, and by a mother who indulges these fantastic stories and tempers them with common sense. But Paul is special in ways that even his adoring parents could never have imagined. For by day, in Londonβs Kensington Gardens, he walks and talks with the pixies and sprites and other magical creatures that dwell among the livingβbut are unseen by most. And at night in his room, a boy much like himself, yet not, beckons to Paul from the mirror to come adventuring. Itβs a happy life for Paul, made all the more so by the birth of his baby sister. But everything changes when tragedy strikes, and Paul concludes that thereβs only one course of action he can take to dispel the darkness and make things right again. And like countless heroes before him, he knows that he must risk everything to save the day. Thus begins a quest that will lead Paul down the cityβs bustling streets, to a curio shop where a magical ally awaits him, and launches him into the starry skies, bound for a realm where anything is possible. Far from home, he will run with fierceIndian warriors, cross swords with fearsome pirates, befriend a magnificent white tiger, and soar beside an extraordinary, ageless boy who reigns in a boundless world of imagination. Brimming with the sly humor and breathless excitement of a traditional Victorian bedtime story, deftly embroidered with its own unique wisdom and wonder, Tigerheart is a hymn to childhoodβs happiness and heartbreak, a meditation on the love, courage, sacrifice, and faith that shape us and define our lives, and a splendidly rendered modern fableβfor readers of any ageβthat brilliantly proves itself a worthy brother to the timeless classic that serve as its inspiration.
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