The Ghost Drum
Czar Guidon kept his son Safa imprisoned in a tower. His power could only be matched by the witch-girl Chingis. Out of the frozen wastes she studied the words and runes that would give her power to understand the messages of the ghost drum. At last she heard Safa's cries...This book was awarded...
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Czar Guidon kept his son Safa imprisoned in a tower. His power could only be matched by the witch-girl Chingis. Out of the frozen wastes she studied the words and runes that would give her power to understand the messages of the ghost drum. At last she heard Safa's cries...This book was awarded the 1987 Library Association's Carnegie Medal.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780571153404 (0571153402)
Publish date: March 20th 1989
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Pages no: 167
Edition language: English
Series: Ghost World (#1)
Magical drum, house with chicken legs, a man who has never seen the light of day, witches. Deliciously grim. You can almost taste the northern landscape in this story.Best read when snow is falling.