The Kingdom Of Carbonel

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The Kingdom Of CARBONEL

Barbara Sleigh was born in 1906 in Warwickshire. She took an art teacher’s training course, and began to write stories for children for radio. She was a lecturer at Goldsmiths’ Teacher Training College, then in 1933 joined the staff of BBC Children’s Hour. Three years later she married David Davis, who later became Head of Children’s Hour.

The Kingdom of Carbonel, the second book in the Carbonel trilogy, was first published over forty years ago and today it is still one of the most popular fantasies for younger children.

Barabara Sleigh died in 1982.

Books by Barbara Sleigh

CARBONEL

THE KINGDOM OF CARBONEL

CARBONEL AND CALIDOR

GRIMBLEGRAW AND THE WUTHERING WITCH

NINETY-NINE DRAGONS

The Kingdom of CARBONEL

BARBARA SLEIGH

Illustrated by Richard Kennedy

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First published in the USA by Bobbs-Merrill 1960

Published in Puffin Books 1971

Reissued in this edition 2007

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Text copyright © Barbara Sleigh, 1960

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Except in the United States of America, this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

EISBN: 978–0–141–90232–6

Contents

1 The Green Cave

2 Carbonel Again

3 Prism Powder

4 Hedgem and Fudge

5 The Red Mixture

6 The Royal Kittens

7 Figg’s Bottom

8 The Rocking Chair

9 The Walled Garden

10 Making Plans

11 Cat Country

12 Conspiracy

13 Stranded

14 Gone!

15 Miss Dibdin’s Magic

16 Invisible

17 Adelaide Row

18 Calidor

19 The Pet Shop

20 ‘All Hands to the Pump’

21 Dossy

22 The Queen of Sheba

23 Milly

24 The Counter-Spell

25 The Green Mixture

26 Council of War

27 The Friendship Ceremony

28 The Attack

29 Minuscule Magic

30 The Return of the Kings

31 The Final Magic