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Shadow Castle: Expanded Edition
Shadow Castle: Expanded Edition
Shadow Castle: Expanded Edition
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Shadow Castle: Expanded Edition

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In the middle of a deep forest is an enchanted valley and a castle where only shadows live, shadows of kings and queens who have waited for hundreds of years for the spell cast upon them to be broken. One day, a girl named Lucy follows a little dog through a tunnel into the valley and meets the mysterious red-haired Michael, who takes her into the shadow world to meet Prince Mika and his mortal wife Gloria, their children and their children’s children, and to learn the magic that will lift the spell.
 
This new expanded edition contains additional chapters not published in the original 1946 edition.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateFeb 16, 2016
ISBN9781504029728
Shadow Castle: Expanded Edition
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Marian Cockrell

Marian Brown Cockrell 1909-1999 She was born Marian Bradford Brown, March 15, 1909, in Birmingham, Alabama, the daughter of a doctor and a nurse. She attended several colleges, including Sophie Newcomb College, now part of Tulane University, where she met her husband, Francis (Frank) Cockrell. They married in 1932, during the Depression, when Frank had quit college because his family could no longer afford it, and begun to write short stories for magazines such as College Humor. Marian began to write as well, and published stories in magazines including Redbook, Collier’s, MacLean’s and the Saturday Evening Post. After their marriage they lived in St. Augustine and New Orleans before moving to Los Angeles, where they began to write screenplays. This was interrupted by WWII, when Frank was sent to the Pacific and Marian moved back home to Birmingham. During the war she completed an unfinished novel of Frank’s, Dark Waters, which was published as a serial in the Saturday Evening Post, and then made into a film starring Merle Oberon. Among her television credits are a number of scripts for Alfred Hitchcock Presents in the 1950s, and two episodes of the 1960s Batman series, on which she collaborated with Frank. While Frank began to write strictly for the screen, Marian became a novelist. Besides Dark Waters, her adult novels included Lillian Harley, Something Between, Yesterday’s Madness, all written in the 40s, and The Revolt of Sarah Perkins, The Misadventures of Bethany Price, and Mixed Blessings, written in the 60s and 70s. Shadow Castle was her only children’s book. She lived for many years in Ojai, California, where she was a founder of the Ventura County Humane Society, and active in animal welfare causes all her life. She had one daughter, Amanda Cockrell, a novelist, with whom she was living at her death on December 9, 1999, in Roanoke, Virginia.

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  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    A very charming, not very important book, definitely for kids, written in what I think of as "Enid Blyton Non-Descript." It is a series of linked stories about a fairy family (and their romantic interactions with mortals) with an uninteresting framing device of a young girl being talked to. Short, brisk, easy to read, well-suited to bedtimes, nice (not "nice" as in "okay, decent" but "nice" as in kind-hearted), but nothing to take the literary world by storm or demand you rush out and buy it.

    Undemanding fare perfect for when you're under the weather and want something to read during the soup course.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This is still one of my favorite books. Lucy finds a secret tunnel in the woods that leads to a mysterious castle where only a man (Michael), a dog, and several shadows live. Michael relates the castle's magical history in a series of stories involving the affairs of fairies, half fairies, humans, and goblins- and how Michael himself is involved. The illustrations are beautiful.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    This was one of those books I loved when I was a kid but it is not as good as you remember when you get older. With that said, this seems like a great book to read to/with a child. It is quick, has a few different stories within the main tale, and doesn't go too far into details allowing a kid really fill in details with their own imagination.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    If you really loved the shorter version, then the expanded version is worthwhile. But for a younger person, the original version is just the right length.

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