Clockwork

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Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE CHILDREN’S PUBLISHERS UK

Pub. date: 4 November, 2004

Pages: 96

Description: From the master storyteller comes a tale of gothic mystery as elegantly crafted as the most intricate clockwork. A tormented apprentice clock-maker – and a deadly knight in armour.

Synopsis: Tick, tock, tick, tock! Some stories are like that. Once you’ve wend them up, nothing will stop them …A tormented apprentice clock-maker, a deadly mechanical knight in armour – and the sinister Dr Kalmenius, who some say is the devil …Wind up these characters, fit them into a story on a cold winter’s evening, with the snow swirling down, and suddenly life and the story begin to merge in a peculiarly macabre – and unstoppable – way. Almost like clockwork …

Key Stage: UK School Key Stage 2