Excerpt from The Kingdom of Why: Being the Strange Story of Lucile's Adventures With the Sapient Sage, the Foolish Idea, the Striped Jester, and Other Folk, Creatures, Kings, Beasts, Bogies, Wizards and Witches Who Dwell in That Wonderful Land
On the evening in which the strange things began to happen to Lucile, she was sitting in the library watching her Daddy read from a book with a name containing as many long words as Lucile was years old, which was nine. It was beginning to get dark. Ln cile wondered why. In fact, that was what Lucile was always doing - wondering why the things in this big, round, green world are like they are, and why they are not like the things in once-upon-a-time fairy books. So she began to bother her father with questions.
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| ISBN: | 9780331138771 |
| Publication date: | 26th April 2018 |
| Author: | Stuart Basham Stone |
| Publisher: | Forgotten Books an imprint of Fb&c Ltd |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 304 pages |
| Genres: |
Children’s / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction |