One Beastly Beast: Two Aliens, Three Inventors, Four Fantastic Tales
A funny, magical, colourful story collection for young children.
The stories are:
- Serena and the Sea Serpent – in which a small girl discovers that being a Penguinmaid is too much fun!
- Bill the Inventor – in which a young orphan discovers that finding ideal parents is very tricky indeed!
- Blackbread the Pirate – in which Peter discovers that the world beneath his feet is fraught with rude rats!
- The Princess and the Beastly Beast – in which Rinda discovers that monsters are not always so terrible on the inside...
Garth Nix takes on a younger audience with this collection of magical adventures. His trademark fertile imagination and spellbinding storytelling is sure to capture a whole new generation of fans.
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In Garth Nix’s worlds, the dead rarely stay quiet, magic obeys ancient and perilous rules, and courage often looks like a teenager holding a bell, a sword, and the weight of two realms. Best known for the Old Kingdom series, Nix has carved out a space in fantasy literature that hums with mythic resonance and emotional depth—where necromancers clash with free magic creatures and heroines face destiny with grit rather than grandeur.
Born in Melbourne, Australia, Nix grew up in Canberra, absorbing stories that blurred the line between the ordinary and the extraordinary. He worked in bookstores, publishing, and even the Australian Army Reserve before turning his attention fully to fiction. That eclectic journey quietly shaped his writing—there’s a sense in his stories that the fantastical doesn’t sit apart from reality, but seeps into it through forgotten doorways and ancient bloodlines.
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