Sunday, December 20, 2009

Children Learn to Face Fear as Top Secret Falls into Wrong Hands

With the contempo aberration over the latest Harry Potter book, children's appetite for bewitched adventitious and alarming spells is unquenchable.

Austin, TX -- Have you anytime had a secret? Stop, and think. Could you brainstorm if your secrets fell into the amiss hands? Well, that’s just what has happened. For over a thousand years the Box of Whispers has attentive all the secrets in the Land of Een—but if the Box is al of a sudden stolen, 5 ambitious heroes are called to go and acquisition the aces chest. One of these is adolescent Kendra Kandlestar, and she anon finds herself swept abroad on a bewitched adventitious area doors allege in riddles, plants casting spells, and aberrant creatures lurk in every shadow.

Fairytale? Folklore? Fantasy? Yes, all that, and more. In abounding ways, Lee Edward Födi’s “Kendra Kandlestar and the Box of Whispers” (ISBN 1933285109, Brown Books, November 2005) is about fear—or, added accurately said, about against fear. In the book, all the secrets that the characters adumbrate central the Box of Whispers appear absorbed with a abundant accord of fear. As a result, this abhorrence helps bear a abhorrent monster—literally, Rumor the Red Dragon. By the end of the adventure Kendra is able to acquisition that “spark” central of her, and assets backbone by continuing up to the dragon and adverse her fears. “I accept that, if we face our fears, we abound and become bigger people,” claims Fodi. “Of course, I didn’t set out to address a book about fear—my ambition was to address a fantasy adventitious adventure about a babe who ends up in a dragon’s lair…but I acquisition that letters and capacity consistently advance through the autograph process, and in this book, I would say against abhorrence is absolutely the capital message.”

With the aberration about the latest Harry Potter book and movies in the theaters, children’s appetite for bewitched adventitious and alarming spells is unquenchable. “The book has a account akin of 8-12, but it aswell draws in adolescent kids because of the illustrations and the story-telling appearance of the narrative,” explains Födi. “To the youngest of kids, the adventure is about a babe who ends up angry a dragon, but earlier readers will be able to analyze some added meanings.”

Lee Edward Födi lives in Vancouver, Canada, area he writes and illustrates his own books and for others. He is the capital facilitator and coach for Dream Workshop, a affairs advised to absolve the artistic energies of children. He is a belief addict and has a accumulating of funny hats. “Kendra Kandlestar and The Box of Whispers” may be purchased at any arch book store.

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