Impossible Creatures

'There was Tolkien, there is Pullman and now there is Katherine Rundell. Wondrous invention, marvellous writing.'

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Michael Morpurgo

'Rundell's first foray into fantasy is both a deft, rich homage to the greats of children's literature and an absorbing, profoundly poignant quest story for those aged 9+ – quite possibly her best yet'
– The Guardian

'A book stuffed full of fantastical, magical delight, and a world of richly imagined wonder' – Cressida Cowell

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SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

There's a place where all the wildest stories began … From Katherine Rundell, winner of the Costa Children's Book Award, the Blue Peter Book Award and the Waterstones Children's Book Prize comes the first novel in a landmark trilogy for 9+ fans of His Dark Materials

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Lauren St. John


Genre: Children's Fiction

"Between the covers of Impossible Creatures is a world as enchanting, as perilous, as richly imagined as Narnia or Middle Earth." - Frank Cottrell-Boyce

"A rare and remarkable feat of glittering imagination from a truly masterful storyteller." - Catherine Doyle

"Flickers with a rare and fierce beauty - unputdownable." - Abi Elphinstone

"Katherine Rundell is a phenomenon. She not only understands what fantasy is for and why children (and the rest of us) need it, but she crafts original and brilliant books that delight readers of all ages and kinds, while stretching our minds and filling our hearts." - Neil Gaiman

"Fantastically exuberant, wildly imaginative, impossibly brilliant. Rundell's best, which is something to be marvelled at. It made me want to yell, or laugh, or bite something." - Kiran Millwood Hargrave

"There was Tolkien, there is Pullman and now there is Katherine Rundell. Wondrous invention, marvellous writing. This book is her best yet, and that's saying something. Just riveting, quite extraordinary." - Michael Morpurgo

"A menagerie of delights. So packed with magic you'll want to take notes. Impossible Creatures is a world you'll want to move into." - Patrick Ness

"Katherine Rundell is a prodigiously gifted storyteller and IMPOSSIBLE CREATURES is wildly good. Spectacularly inventive, it is both a thrilling and page-turning epic and a clarion call to young readers to use the special gifts of childhood- love, courage, imagination and open-heartedness - to fight to save precious creatures of all kinds before they vanish before our eyes. My Book of the Year." - Lauren St John

"A fierce, fantastic, wild-hearted adventure that roars and bristles with imagination. I devoured it like a hungry dragon." - Sam Sedgman

"A marvellous imaginative fantasy told with great style and sparkle - a book to race through in a day and keep for a lifetime." - Jacqueline Wilson