The Search for Delicious
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
Natalie Babbit's memorable first novel, The Search for Delicious, about a boy who nearly causes a civil war in the kingdom all because of his work on the royal dictionary.
Gaylen, the King's messenger, a skinny boy of twelve, is off to poll the kingdom, traveling from town to farmstead to town on his horse, Marrow. At first it is merely a question of disagreement at the royal castle over which food should stand for Delicious in the new dictionary. But soon it seems that the search for Delicious had better succeed if civil war is to be avoided.
Gaylen's quest leads him to the woldweller, a wise, 900-year-old creature who lives alone at the precise center of the forest; to Canto, the minstrel who sings him an old song about a mermaid child and who gives him a peculiar good-luck charm; to the underground domain of the dwarfs; and finally to Ardis who might save the kingdom from havoc.
The Search for Delicious is a 1969 New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of the Year.
Featured in 4 episodes as part of the Jackanory BBC children's television series.
Customer Reviews
The search for delicious
This is a really good book to read and it is almost a search for the lost mermaid and the theif took delicious because she knew where the treasure was and the kingdom set off to find delicious and they king and queen had put the 2 theif and they got banished from the underground city and they never came back there unless they will get killed
Great or Horrible?
Honestly, I believe this book was Great! The author added varieties of complex details making it more interesting as you read😇 I would mostly prefer a book like this towards people the ages of 12-45. Hope you enjoy this book as much as I did.Be sure to read it!😊
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This is the most amazing book I every readed