There was Tolkien there is Pullman and now there is Katherine Rundell. Wondrous invention
marvellous writing.' - Michael Morpurgo It was a very fine day until something tried to eat
him. A boy called Christopher is visiting his reclusive grandfather when he witnesses an
avalanche of mythical creatures come tearing down the hill. This is how Christopher learns that
his grandfather is the guardian of one of the ways between the non-magical world and a place
called the Archipelago a cluster of magical islands where all the creatures we tell of in myth
live and breed and thrive alongside humans. They have been protected from being discovered for
thousands of years now terrifyingly the protection has worn thin and creatures are breaking
through. Then a girl Mal appears in Christopher's world. She is in possession of a flying
coat is being pursued by a killer and is herself in pursuit of a baby griffin. Mal
Christopher and the griffin embark on an urgent quest across the wild splendour of the
Archipelago where sphinxes hold secrets and centaurs do murder to find the truth - with
unimaginable consequences for both their worlds. Together the two must face the problem of
power and of knowledge and of what love demands of us. '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 'Katherine Rundell is a phenomenon. ' - Neil Gaiman '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 '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 'My Book of the
Year.' - Lauren St. John
