Book of Enchantments
This witty and charming collection of ten short fantasies includes a story, set in the Enchanted Forest, about Queen Cimorene's Frying Pan of Doom; a zany yarn about a magical blue chipmunk with a passion for chestnuts; and an eerie tale of a caliph who turns his vizier's daughter into a wolf.
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This witty and charming collection of ten short fantasies includes a story, set in the Enchanted Forest, about Queen Cimorene's Frying Pan of Doom; a zany yarn about a magical blue chipmunk with a passion for chestnuts; and an eerie tale of a caliph who turns his vizier's daughter into a wolf.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780152055080 (0152055088)
Publish date: October 1st 2005
Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
Patricia C. Wrede is such an incredible writer. This is a short story collection that involves some of the characters from her Enchanted Forest series and I absolutely love her sense of humor. Her characters are interesting to the point you want to learn more about them. Each story in this collectio...
Love this one.This is a collection of fantasy short stories by Patricia Wrede, author of the Enchanted Forest series (Calling on Dragons, etc.). While there is an Enchanted Forest series story in this one (Frying Pan of Doom), the real gems are the stand-alones. A story about a group of high schoole...
Short stories by the author of the Enchanted Forest Chronicles (LOVE THEM!) and the Kate and Cecelia books. I must have read this years ago because I remembered all the stories. For some reason my abiding favorite is “The Sixty-two Curses of Caliph Arenschadd.” [Jan. 2009]
Disappointing short fantasy stories. I love PCW, but this is far from her usual standard.