検索キーワード： 著者 "Mark Boyde" すべてのカテゴリー

Leaving his home in Crooked Spyre, Mordekai Hagg takes a secret pathway through Hackenbark Forest seeking an underground cavern and a fortune in goblins gold, rumoured hidden in a vast underground cavern at the centre of the Kingdom of the Three Forests. On his journey he meets a strange elf called Dandelion, a grumpy red-bearded dwarf called Grumblethump, and a fierce forest troll named Slobberchops. One by one they try to stop him, but Mordekai will not be turned. Will Mordekai seek what he is finding and, if he does, will he be happy that he did?

Every New Year's Eve, strange, screechy music wafts down from the mountains of Glencoe, but just who is playing it, and why, is a mystery? After delivering some porridge to his Granny, who lives in a house at the foot of Glencoe Pass, Curious McAye, a daydreaming young fool, decides to go and find out, despite Granny having told him a story of three witch sisters who once lived there and of their strange friends, the Gobin Pipers. When Curious hears the sound of bagpipes playing, and sees a silver pathway leading up into the mountains, his curiosity gets the better of him.

Every New Years Eve, strange screechy music wafts down from the Scottish Mountains of Glencoe, but just who is playing it, and why? After delivering some porridge to his Granny, young Curious McAye, riding his horse, Whiskymac, decides to go and find out. At the end of a silvery pathway high in Glencoe's mountains he finds the oddest array of creatures and characters from Scottish myth and legend, having a New Year Ball. Curious dances out onto the moonlit heath to join the party and dancing, but when the midnight bells toll and Auld Lang Syne is sung, will he find his way back home?