📱 eBook en inglés The King of the Copper Mountains

A triumphant piece of magicObserver

The best book of all time for this ageThe Times

After reigning for a thousand years, old King Mansolain is growing weary and his heart is slowing down. Only stories can keep it ticking while his doctor searches for the cure. So, from every corner of the kingdom, creatures journey to the castle in the copper mountains to sit on the Kings long white bear and share their tales.

Every night, a new storyteller arrives: a fearsome wolf, a lonely rabbit, a fire-breathing, three-headed dragon and many more. Each tale is more wondrous than the last, but will they be enough to keep the Kings heart beating?

Part of the new Pushkin Childrens Classics series of thrilling, magical and inspiring stories from around the world, which young readers will return to time and again.

Illustrated by Sally J. Collins.

Paul Biegel was one of Europes most acclaimed and best-loved storytellers, and the author of more than fifty books for children. Born in the Netherlands in 1925, he studied law but worked as a comic-strip writer before writing his first novel, The Golden Guitar, in 1960. The King of the Copper Mountains followed in 1965. It won the award for the best Dutch childrens book of the year, and remains his best-loved work.