The Kingdom Revealed
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- £8.99
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- £8.99
Publisher Description
A stunningly illustrated fairytale for all ages from internationally-acclaimed papercut artist Rob Ryan – the follow-up to THE INVISIBLE KINGDOM.
This is a story about a young boy who doesn’t want to be King.
What he wants, more than anything, is to be normal.
So one night, he runs away from the palace. He climbs out of his four-poster bed, disappears through a hidden door in the ceiling, creeps down a long-forgotten passageway, opens a small window and leaves behind everything he’s ever known.
At first, the world outside the palace seems a magical place that the King delights in exploring. But with no friends to call on, no money in his pocket, in fact nothing apart from the clothes he is wearing, it isn’t long before the young King realises that life on his own is going to be full of challenges.
Meanwhile, Lord Von Dronus, the most senior of all the King’s courtiers, is determined to find the young King before anyone realises he's disappeared.
Beautiful, touching and surprising, The Kingdom Revealed is about appreciating the everyday and learning what matters most.
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Second in a trilogy, paper-cut artist Ryan's follow-up to The Invisible Kingdom finds the young king from the previous book exploring the outside world he barely knows. Living on the streets, he befriends another homeless man, a woman who runs a mobile soup kitchen, and a restaurant owner, slowly building a new life for himself, even as palace officials work to hide/explain his absence. Ryan's crisp silhouettes and thoughtful storytelling adeptly capture the story's emotional highs and lows as the king, having taken the name John, discovers the rewards of a self-determined life and embarks on a nascent romance. A dramatic cliffhanger ending, however, leaves his future very much in question. Ages 8 up.
