The bear-people have an amazing gift – they are able, by magic, to take off their skins and take on human form. But if their bearskins are destroyed, they must stay in their soft man-skins forever. This is the plight that befalls the young narrator of this tale.
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Charles Ashton is the author of The Dragon Fire Trilogy – Jet Smoke and Dragon Fire (shortlisted for both the Guardian Children's Fiction Award and the W. H. Smith Mind Boggling Books Award), Into the Spiral and The Shining Bridge – as well as the novel Billy's Drift, and, for younger readers, The Giant's Boot (shortlisted for the Smarties Book Prize), The Boy Who Was a Bear and The Snow Door.