Unfortunately he cannot return to his throne until the enslavement spell Mrs. Moreover the cat, Carbonel, just happens to be King of the Cats, presumed missing by his subjects ever since the witch Mrs. When the cat starts talking to her she learns that she has encountered a witch, selling up to start a new career. The plot concerns a girl named Rosemary who buys a broom and a cat from an untidy woman in the marketplace. Carbonel was named a Book of the Month by Young Elizabethan magazine, as a 'most sensible, it-could-easily-have-happened fairy story'.

Leonard, and that of Carbonel and Calidor by Charles Front. The first edition of Carbonel was illustrated by V. It has three novels, first Carbonel: the King of the Cats and two sequels, The Kingdom of Carbonel (Puffin, 1961) and Carbonel and Calidor: Being the Further Adventures of a Royal Cat (Kestrel Books, 1978), and was based on the old British folk tale ' The King of the Cats'.

Also published in the US by Bobbs-Merrill from 1955.

Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.Carbonel is a children's book series by Barbara Sleigh, first published by Puffin Books from 1955 to 1978. Read individually, or in sequence, Barbara Sleigh's fantastic and fantastical trilogy casts an unforgettable spell. This third and final volume of the Carbonel series is as full of enchantment and adventure as its predecessors, Carbonel and The Kingdom of Carbonel. With all this going on, it's just a matter of time before Carbonel's old nemesis Grisana-accompanied by her slyboots daughter Melissa-hatches a plan to take control of Carbonel's kingdom once and for all. Even worse, Calidor has apprenticed himself to the witch-in-training Mrs. It seems that his son Calidor has rejected his princely status for the love of a streetwise cat named Wellingtonia (also known as Dumpsie).

And it's a lucky thing, too, because Carbonel needs Rosemary and John's help. Sure enough, Carbonel's human friends Rosemary and John soon encounter magic in the form of a ring set with a fiery red stone that grants wishes to whoever wears it. And once magic is in your blood it attracts more magic,' says the royal cat Carbonel at the start of Carbonel and Calidor. Now in paperback, the third and final entry in Barbara Sleigh's enchanting Carbonel trilogy.

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