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 The Toymaker - Jeremy De Quidt
 The Toymaker - Jeremy De Quidt ... Fickling BooksNewest Review: ... from Lustmann in the hope that the secret may have been transferred across from Gustav to Mathias and he can find out what it ... more ... is.
However, Leiter hadn't counted on the greed of Lustmann's wife, Anna Maria nor on the tenacity of Mathias and the servant girl Katta, who manage to evade his dwarf servant Valter and escape. The two children find their way into the hands of a man called Koenig who, intrigued by the secret and by the amount of money Leiter is willing to spend to find it, takes Mathias along to help him unravel the secret.
This is a beautifully dark story, very much in the Neil Gaiman mode, although missing some of his fantasti...more |
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The Toymaker - Jeremy De Quidt: Worth Toying With (779 words)
by - written on 16/01/09 (Very useful, 57 readings)
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Looking back, it always seems like the books and TV shows available for younger people are so much better than what was available to me. Maybe some of them just seem that way to me and it's not actually the case. But I do know that I never had anything quite like Jeremy de Quidt's "The Toymaker" available to me back then because, believe me, I would have remembered. There is a toymaker who, frustrated with toys that run down, is attempting to put a real heart into a doll, so that it would keep going constantly. Far away, there is a conjuror called Gustav, who hides in a travelling circus because he hides a secret that some people would happily ... Read the complete review
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