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On a rainy September Sunday in the near future a cargo of strange, shapeless bags appears on the luggage carousel at Manchester Airport. The bags are huge, and some people think they move, but everyone is quite willing to forget them when they disappear. Only later, when Britain has been devastated by the cockatrice monsters they contain, is this recognised as the beginning of disaster. A train is sent with forces to do battle with the monsters and with tinned carrots to feed the starving population of Manchester. The last recruit to the train is a drummer boy, Dakin and his adventures are told in this imaginative story.
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The idea for this book is so sensational it could have come from The Sunday Sport: hideous demonic monsters invade England, laying it to waste and devouring most of the inhabitants. Embargoed by the rest of the world, the English barricade themselves underground until, after five years on the defensive, a counter attack is planned. The Cockatrice Belle, an armoured and heavily-armed train, is built to attack and, if possible, find the source of the plague. The train sets out for Manchester with her crack Cockatrice Corps crew, and by chance picks up Sauna, a young girl who embodies both cause and cure. Readers will be gripped by Joan Aiken's group of evocatively Dickensian and strange characters--Dakin, Clipspeak, Bellswinger and Tom Flint--as they follow their desperate bid to save England in this quirky, inventive fantasy.
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"Readers will be reminded of "Alice in Wonderland". . .and the movie trilogy Star Wars."--"School Library Journal"
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- PublisherPuffin
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0141300108
- ISBN 13 9780141300108
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages192
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