Barbara Sleigh è stata un'autrice di spicco i cui contributi letterari sono stati spesso plasmati dal suo coinvolgente lavoro con BBC Children's Hour. La sua scrittura è celebrata per la sua qualità stravagante e fantasiosa, che attira i giovani lettori in regni incantati ricchi di avventure. Attraverso le sue narrazioni, ha esplorato temi di amicizia, coraggio e scoperta, infondendo costantemente le sue storie con calore ed empatia. Sleigh ha lasciato un'eredità duratura nella letteratura per bambini attraverso la sua notevole capacità di creare personaggi memorabili e trame accattivanti.
When night falls Cat Country comes to life. Carbonel, the King of Cats, and Queen Blandamour have long reigned supreme, but the wicked grey Persian cat Grisana and her cronies have plans to take the throne. Carbonel turns to his young friends Rosemary and John for help and together with some magic spells, they battle for the future of Cat Country - but only the strongest magic will prevail.
'You may call me Carbonel. That is my name.' When Rosemary buys an old broomstick and a black cat at the market, she has no idea that the broomstick is a witch's broomstick, and that the cat is a magical Royal Cat! Rosemary is determined to help Carbonel return to his kingdom, but first Rosemary and her friend John must find a way to undo the wicked witch's spell . . .
Now in paperback, the third and final entry in Barbara Sleigh's enchanting Carbonel trilogy. “There are many kinds of magic. . . And once magic is in your blood it attracts more magic,” says the royal cat Carbonel at the start of Carbonel and Calidor. Sure enough, Carbonel’s human friends Rosemary and John soon encounter magic in the form of a ring set with a fiery red stone that grants wishes to whoever wears it. And it’s a lucky thing, too, because Carbonel needs Rosemary and John’s help. It seems that his son Calidor has rejected his princely status for the love of a streetwise cat named Wellingtonia (also known as Dumpsie). Even worse, Calidor has apprenticed himself to the witch-in-training Mrs. Dibdin. With all this going on, it’s just a matter of time before Carbonel’s old nemesis Grisana—accompanied by her slyboots daughter Melissa—hatches a plan to take control of Carbonel’s kingdom once and for all. This third and final volume of the Carbonel series is as full of enchantment and adventure as its predecessors, Carbonel and The Kingdom of Carbonel. Read individually, or in sequence, Barbara Sleigh’s fantastic and fantastical trilogy casts an unforgettable spell.
