Chronicles of the Red King #1: The Secret Kingdom

by Nimmo, Jenny

• ISBN13: 9780545292412
• ISBN10: 0545292417
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-04-01
• Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks

Summary

The first book in NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY bestselling author Jenny Nimmo's brand-new trilogy about the boy who started it all for Charlie Bone and his friends. Now in paperback! Timoken is a prince born in a secret kingdom. At his birth, a forest jinni bestows magical gifts upon him: a cloak made by the last moon spider and a potion called Alixir. When the peaceful land is attacked, Timoken and his sister, Zobayda, must find a new kingdom to call home. Together, with only the magical gifts and a talking camel, the siblings set off. In this brand-new series, bestselling author Jenny Nimmo takes readers on an extraordinary quest with one of her most powerful and mysterious characters, the one who started it all for Charlie Bone and the children of the Red King.

Author Biography

Jenny Nimmo is the author of the NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY bestselling Children of the Red King series as well as GRIFFIN'S CASTLE, THE DRAGON'S CHILD, and the award-winning Magician Trilogy, all published by Orchard Books. Her newest trilogy is The Chronicles of the Red King, published by Scholastic Press. Many of her books have been awarded the Smarties Prize, the Carnegie Medal, the Whitbread Award, and the WH Smith Mind-Boggling Books Award. She lives with her husband in an old mill in Wales.