Endymion Spring Author:Matthew Skelton "You've stumbled on to something much larger than you can possibly imagine." — In the dead of night, a cloaked figure drags a heavy box through snow-covered streets. The chest, covered in images of mythical beasts, can only be opened when the fangs of its serpent's-head clasp taste blood. — Centuries later, in an Oxford library, a boy touch... more »es a strange book and feels something pierce his finger. The volume is blank, wordless, but its paper has fine veins running through it and seems to quiver, as if it's alive. Words begin to appear on the page--words no one but the boy can see.
One of the year's best fantasy offerings for kids. A good one for adults, too. I enjoyed how part of the story happens back at the time of the original printing press.
Doesn't quite live up to its likening to Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass, but a fine first novel involving children's adventures in Oxford, England.