Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes

✍ Scribed by Jonathan Auxier

• Book ID: 100604143
• Publisher: Amulet Books
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 727 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: 2013.
• ISBN: 161312158X

✦ Synopsis

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Part One: Gold; Chapter One: Peter Nimble's First Ten Years; Chapter Two: The Haberdasher's Mysterious Box; Chapter Three: Peter versus the Mumblety-Peg Gang; Chapter Four: Sir Tode and the Familiar Voice; Chapter Five: The Troublesome Lake of Professor Cake; Chapter Six: The Vanished Kingdom; Chapter Seven: The Gentle Wind, and Where It Took Them; Chapter Eight: Trapped in the Just Deserts; Chapter Nine: Poor Old Scabbs; Chapter Ten: A Breeze over the Hill; Chapter Eleven: The Ravens of Kettle Rock.;Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes is the utterly beguiling tale of a ten-year-old blind orphan who has been schooled in a life of thievery. One fateful afternoon, he steals a box from a mysterious traveling haberdasher-a box that contains three pairs of magical eyes. When he tries the first pair, he is instantly transported to a hidden island where he is presented with a special quest: to travel to the dangerous Vanished Kingdom and rescue a people in need. Along with his loyal sidekick-a knight who has been turned into an unfortunate combination of horse and cat-and the magic eyes, he embarks on an unforgettable, swashbuckling adventure to discover his true destiny. Praise for Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes "Auxier has a juggler's dexterity with prose that makes this fantastical tale quicken the senses."--Kirkus Reviews.

✦ Subjects

JUVENILE FICTION -- Fantasy & Magic