Christina Scull
1) Roverandom
Author
Pub. Date
1998.
Physical Desc
xxii, 106 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1925, four-year-old Michael Tolkien lost his beloved toy dog on the beach. To console him, his father, J.R.R. Tolkien, improvised a story about Rover, a real dog who is magically transformed into a toy and is forced to seek out the wizard who wronged him in order to be returned to normal. This charming tale, peopled by a sand-sorcerer and a terrible dragon, by the king of the sea and the Man-in-the-Moon, endured several drafts over the years. Now,...
Author
Pub. Date
1999.
Physical Desc
127 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In this fiftieth anniversary edition of the Tolkien classic, Farmer Giles, his mare, and his talking dog go into the valley of the Thames to fight the dragon Chrysophylax. Includes the author's previously unpublished notes for a sequel.
