Post by betjemansmouse on Mar 9, 2011 11:04:22 GMT -5
Thin Time
Book One ~Task Bearer Series (Carole Anne Carr)
Set in the English village of Tong, and based upon Norse mythology, a young girl, chosen by mistake to be Task Bearer and given three gifts, must bring back the New Year seeds before midnight to prevent the world from dying.
Scared her stepmother has discovered what she has done, she is about to run away from home when she is cornered by the gargoyles and must begin the years as Task Bearer that is her fate.
Ordered by the Green Lady, a giant of a woman with mice weaving nests in her hair, to undertake the first of her tasks before Thin Time ends at midnight, Alice sets out on her dangerous quest.
With her small stepbrother Thomas, a bad tempered dog tomb dog called Fymm who is many centuries old, and Ratatosk the Messenger Squirrel, she is guided by the young girl from the altar tomb in Tong Church, finds the door into the Tree of Life by using the skipping rhyme password and travels into the Other World.
Helped by the singing cockerel from the church tower, and armed with a stone and a gargoyle’s shield, she must face the terrible Sisters at the Well of Wyrd, and the fury of Nidhogg the Snake-Dragon.
But does she possess the one thing that will protect her - a loving heart? For without that, she will never be able to return to her own time, and the treasure, whatever it may be, will never be hers. And will the remaining gifts be of use to her when she has defiantly eaten the first?
(Suitable for 9+)
Book One ~Task Bearer Series (Carole Anne Carr)
Set in the English village of Tong, and based upon Norse mythology, a young girl, chosen by mistake to be Task Bearer and given three gifts, must bring back the New Year seeds before midnight to prevent the world from dying.
Scared her stepmother has discovered what she has done, she is about to run away from home when she is cornered by the gargoyles and must begin the years as Task Bearer that is her fate.
Ordered by the Green Lady, a giant of a woman with mice weaving nests in her hair, to undertake the first of her tasks before Thin Time ends at midnight, Alice sets out on her dangerous quest.
With her small stepbrother Thomas, a bad tempered dog tomb dog called Fymm who is many centuries old, and Ratatosk the Messenger Squirrel, she is guided by the young girl from the altar tomb in Tong Church, finds the door into the Tree of Life by using the skipping rhyme password and travels into the Other World.
Helped by the singing cockerel from the church tower, and armed with a stone and a gargoyle’s shield, she must face the terrible Sisters at the Well of Wyrd, and the fury of Nidhogg the Snake-Dragon.
But does she possess the one thing that will protect her - a loving heart? For without that, she will never be able to return to her own time, and the treasure, whatever it may be, will never be hers. And will the remaining gifts be of use to her when she has defiantly eaten the first?
(Suitable for 9+)
I think they understood it better than me, but they also felt the sentences were out of sync. 