The Afterdark Princess
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This month we feature the cover of Chris Powling's latest title, Where the Quaggy Bends (see Authorgraph). The book is published in July by HarperCollins (0 00 185417 8, £7.99; 0 00 674087 1, £3.50 pbk) and we are grateful to them for their help in using this illustration.
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The Afterdark Princess
Kate Aldous
A superbly crafted story, so well-structured that the simplicity belies the interwoven layers of meanings. Joe is the anxious and pampered baby 'sittee' and it takes Alice, baby-sitter extraordinaire, and last Princess of Afterdark, to reveal the courageous and heroic Joe Quail. A remarkable book where our most reluctant hero grows as the pages turn, but after riding a slightly supercilious flying horse and watching a genocidal dragon fight, climbing the Shinning Stairway and subduing the Emperor of Nightfall, no wonder he's a different boy when he returns home. Mum's changed too, but that's a different story.
