Barbara Sleigh était une auteure distinguée dont les contributions littéraires ont souvent été façonnées par son travail captivant auprès de BBC Children's Hour. Son écriture est célébrée pour sa qualité fantaisiste et imaginative, qui entraîne les jeunes lecteurs dans des royaumes enchantés débordant d'aventure. À travers ses récits, elle a exploré des thèmes tels que l'amitié, le courage et la découverte, insufflant constamment à ses histoires chaleur et empathie. Sleigh a laissé un héritage durable dans la littérature jeunesse grâce à sa remarquable capacité à créer des personnages mémorables et des intrigues captivantes.
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.
