Carbonel and Calidor

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Copyright © 1978 by Barbara Sleigh

Illustrations copyright © 1978 by Charles Front

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the earlier printing as follows:

Sleigh, Barbara, 1906–

Carbonel and Calidor : being the further adventures of a royal cat / by Barbara Sleigh ; illustrations by Charles Front.

p. cm. — (New York Review Books children’s collection)

Summary: When Calidor rejects his life of ease as heir to the throne of Cat Country to apprentice with the hostile Broomhurst witches, his father, Carbonel, sends his human friends Rosemary and John to talk sense into the royal prince.

[1. Cats—Fiction. 2. Kings, queens, rulers, etc.—Fiction. 3. Witches—Fiction. 4. Human-animal communication Fiction. 5. Duty—Fiction. 6. Fantasy.] I. Front,

Charles, ill. II. Title.

PZ7.S6317Cas 2009

[Fic]—dc22

2009011906

ISBN 978-1-59017-333-6

Cover design by Louise Fili Ltd.

eISBN 978-1-59017-574-3

v1.0

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