'There was Tolkien there is Pullman and now there is Katherine Rundell. Wondrous invention
marvellous writing.' - Michael Morpurgo There's a place where all the wildest stories began .
The first novel in the award winning and globally best-selling Impossible Creatures series is
the story of two children's epic adventure to transform the world. This edition includes The
Centaur's Spectacles bonus short story. Read the stunning sequel to Impossible Creatures :
book 2 The Poisoned King is OUT NOW! Christopher is stunned when he discovers a Way-Between
from our world 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. * 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 IN
SEPTEMBER 2023 * BRITISH BOOK AWARDS CHILDREN'S FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR * WATERSTONES BOOK
OF THE YEAR WINNER * BOOKS ARE MY BAG READERS' AWARD WINNER * FOYLES CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE
YEAR * SHORTLISTED FOR AMAZON KIDS AND YA BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Full of adventures wonderful
side characters new lands and so many fantastic creatures. I heartily recommend it to readers
of all ages' - Rick Riordan 'A book stuffed full of fantastical magical delight and a world
of richly imagined wonder' - Cressida Cowell '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 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
'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
