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The Hotel Balzaar (The Norendy Tales)
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Author: Kate DiCamillo
Title: The Hotel Balzaar (The Norendy Tales)
Binding: Hardcover
Number Of Pages: 160
Release Date: 2024-10-01
Details: In a wise and magical follow-up to The Puppets of Spelhorst, Kate DiCamillo revisits the land of Norendy, where tales swirl within tales-and every moment is a story in the making.
At the Hotel Balzaar, Marta's mother rises before the sun, puts on her uniform, and instructs Marta to roam as she will but quietly, invisibly-like a little mouse. While her mother cleans rooms, Marta slips down the back staircase to the grand lobby to chat with the bellman, study the painting of an angel's wing over the fireplace, and watch a cat chase a mouse around the face of the grandfather clock, all the while dreaming of the return of her soldier father, who has gone missing. One day, a mysterious countess with a parrot checks in, promising a story-in fact, seven stories in all, each to be told in its proper order. As the stories unfold, Marta begins to wonder: could the secret to her father's disappearance lie in the countess's tales? Book two in a trio of novellas bound by place and mood-with elegant line art by J'ulia Sard`a-The Hotel Balzaar masterfully juggles yearning and belief, shining light into every dark corner.
EAN: 9781536223316
Package Dimensions: Height: 1.968503935 inches, Length: 5.249999994645 inches, Weight: 1.25 Pounds, Width: 7.749999992095 Inches
Languages: en
