Clumsilla's Flight Through Time and Taming of the Tokhashi

By Linda Talbot

"Clumsilla's Flight Through Time" and "Taming of the Tokhashi" are two stories whisking children from their everyday lives to lands of compelling dangers and delights.
Clumsilla meets Zigana, the celestial gipsy, who enables her to fly on a worn hearthrug (not a magic carpet), to the past inhabited by bad tempered giants, princesses, a witch and a dragon unable to breathe fire and then to a time of rocket science and menacing beings fashioned from flames.
In "Taming of the Tokhashi", Topsy and Turvy emerge from the pot of Zazhak - a devilish being - and set out to seek the Tokashi - a fellow fiend. En route they encounter a magical phoenix, a prince and princess, a lost Indian elephant and a selection of unruly nature gods. But Viana, the kindly essence of the earth, helps them through.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Linda Talbot
• Release date: Feb 26, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310169601

Linda Talbot

Linda Talbot has written fantasy for children and adults and for many years reviewed art, theatre and books in London. She now lives in Crete. She published "Fantasy Book of Food"; rhymes, stories and recipes for children and "Five Rides by a River" - about Suffolk, seen from a bicycle! She contributed a chapter to a book about Conroy Maddox, the British surrealist and features on art to "Topos" the German landscape magazine. She published short stories with the British Fantasy Society as well as stories and poetry in other magazines. And she launched "Wordweavers", an online supplement of poetry and fiction, published in conjunction with The Cretan International Community.

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Clumsilla’s Flight Through Time

and

Taming of the Tokhashi

by Linda Talbot

Illustrations by Linda Talbot

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Copyright Linda Talbot 2014

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Table of Contents

Clumsilla's Flight Through Time

Illustrations:-

Zigana, the celestial gipsy

The Giants Brawn and Scrawn

Shirin and Laila, princesses from the Past

Beldina and Bast, the Egyptian cat

Clumsilla with Huff and the Wolgs

Taming of the Tokhashi

Illustrations:-

Topsy, Turvy and Zazhak

Feng Huang the phoenix

The Prince Liu Sheng

Yung ‘tai, the princess

Rama the forgetful elephant

Varuna (River God) and Agni (Fire God)

The Tokhashi

Thank you and blog address

Author's Note and link to author's interview page

CLUMSILLA'S FLIGHT THROUGH TIME

Clumsilla is clumsy in class. She cannot make cakes. She cannot cut up frogs. She is befuddled by figures and fails to find words. She wishes she was elsewhere; flying through time instead of being told she is wasting it.

So she dozes at her desk. Time ticks by and Clumsilla thinks, If only it would fly and I was already in the Future!

Leaving school she has almost reached home when there is a flash of light and, swaying on the wall beside her she sees a woman's face framed by golden earrings and billowing black hair.

Who are you? Clumsilla is alarmed.

I am Zigana, the celestial gipsy,