Barbara Sleigh fue una autora distinguida cuyas contribuciones literarias a menudo estuvieron marcadas por su atractivo trabajo con BBC Children's Hour. Su escritura es celebrada por su cualidad caprichosa e imaginativa, que atrae a los jóvenes lectores a reinos encantados repletos de aventuras. A través de sus narrativas, exploró temas de amistad, coraje y descubrimiento, infundiendo consistentemente sus historias con calidez y empatía. Sleigh dejó un legado duradero en la literatura infantil a través de su notable habilidad para crear personajes memorables y tramas cautivadoras.
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.
