The search for delicious / Natalie Babbitt.
Material type:
TextPublication details: New York : Square Fish/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007, ©1969.Edition: First Square Fish editionDescription: 176 pages : illustrations ; 20 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780312369828
- 0312369824
- 9781439554111
- 1439554110
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book
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Main Library | Children's Science Fiction/Fantasy | BABBITT NATALIE | Available | 33111010863997 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Natalie Babbit's memorable first novel, The Search for Delicious , about a boy who nearly causes a civil war in the kingdom all because of his work on the royal dictionary.
Gaylen, the King's messenger, a skinny boy of twelve, is off to poll the kingdom, traveling from town to farmstead to town on his horse, Marrow. At first it is merely a question of disagreement at the royal castle over which food should stand for Delicious in the new dictionary. But soon it seems that the search for Delicious had better succeed if civil war is to be avoided.
Gaylen's quest leads him to the woldweller, a wise, 900-year-old creature who lives alone at the precise center of the forest; to Canto, the minstrel who sings him an old song about a mermaid child and who gives him a peculiar good-luck charm; to the underground domain of the dwarfs; and finally to Ardis who might save the kingdom from havoc.
The Search for Delicious is a 1969 New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of the Year.
Featured in 4 episodes as part of the Jackanory BBC children's television series.
Includes an interview with the author, Natalie Babbitt.
The Prime Minister is compiling a dictionary and when no one at court can agree on the meaning of delicious, the King sends his twelve-year-old messenger to poll the country.
910 Lexile.