'There was Tolkien there is Pullman and now there is Katherine Rundell. Wondrous invention
marvellous writing.' - Michael Morpurgo 'Rundell's first foray into fantasy is both a deft
rich homage to the greats of children's literature and an absorbing profoundly poignant quest
story for those aged 9+ - quite possibly her best yet' - The Guardian 'A book stuffed full of
fantastical magical delight and a world of richly imagined wonder' - Cressida Cowell THE
TIMES CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE WEEK * THE INDEPENDENT CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE WEEK * THE DAILY
TELEGRAPH CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE WEEK * SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER There's a place where all the
wildest stories began . From Katherine Rundell winner of the Costa Children's Book Award the
Blue Peter Book Award and the Waterstones Children's Book Prize comes the first novel in a
landmark trilogy for 9+ fans of His Dark Materials Christopher is stunned when he discovers a
passage to the Archipelago: a cluster of magical islands where all the creatures of myth still
live and breed and thrive in their thousands. There he meets Mal: a girl from the islands who
is in possession of a flying coat and a baby griffin and who is being pursued by a killer.
Together they embark on an urgent quest to discover why the creatures are suddenly perishing
voyaging across the wild splendour of the Archipelago where sphinxes hold secrets and centaurs
do murder in a bid to save both the islands and the world beyond them from a rising evil -
before it's too late. 'A marvellous imaginative fantasy told with great style and sparkle - a
book to race through in a day and keep for a lifetime' - Jacqueline Wilson 'The world of this
new book is so intriguing and so well put together that I couldn't resist it. Readers who
already know her books will seize this with delight and new readers will love it and demand
all her others at once' - Philip Pullman 'Katherine Rundell is a phenomenon.' - Neil Gaiman 'A
masterpiece to rival Tolkien and Pullman' - The Daily Telegraph 'Fantastically exuberant
wildly imaginative impossibly brilliant. Rundell's best which is something to be marvelled
at' - Kiran Millwood Hargrave 'Between the covers of Impossible Creatures is a world as
enchanting as perilous as richly imagined as Narnia or Middle Earth' - Frank Cottrell-Boyce
'Rundell's book packs a punch with imagination and creativity in its purest form. She has
created a story with potential to be adored by fantasy lovers for years to come' - The
Independent 'With a delightful cast of characters breathless adventure and an abundance of
myth and magic Impossible Creatures offers the very best of fantasy' - Aisha Bushby 'A fierce
fantastic wild-hearted adventure that roars and bristles with imagination. I devoured it like
a hungry dragon' - Sam Sedgman 'A rare and remarkable feat of glittering imagination from a
truly masterful storyteller' - Catherine Doyle 'The action is gripping. Every sentence
sparkles. You can feel the flutter of griffin feathers and the menace of strange poisonous
shrews. Magnificent' - The Times 'Surely the next classic' - The I 'My Book of the Year' -
Lauren St. John
