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Sandpiper
March 2009
On Sale: February 20, 2009
176 pages
ISBN: 0547237766
EAN: 9780547237763
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What fills a hand fuller than a skein of gold? By order
of
the king, two boys, Tousle and Innes, must find the
answer
to this puzzling riddle within seven days or be killed. A
former nursemaid to the queen’s child tells the boys that
the banished queen may have the answer they seek. Danger
presents itself at every turn, for the boys are pursued
by
the Great Barons, who are secretly plotting against the
king. Another pursuer, the greedy King’s Grip, reveals a
strange story of a little man who once spun straw into
gold
of incredible beauty for the queen but then disappeared
with her firstborn son. Tousle realizes that the man he
calls Da is the strange little man and, even more
amazing,
that he himself may be the lost prince. Or could it be
Innes, who although cruelly blinded can hear the music of
the dawn?
This skillful blend of fantasy and adventure reveals what
might have happened before the queen makes her third and
last guess and the story of Rumpelstiltskin—as we know it
—
ends.
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