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Stolen Children of Quentaris is the prequel to Gary Crew's previous Quentaris title, The Plague of Quentaris. Stolen Children is a gripping fantasy novel which tells the story of the Quentaran children - including Garnet, Jasper and Moon Jewel - who are stolen by Nordian traders as wares for the despicable Trollantan rat people. The novel details the children's journey though the rift caves in tumbrels drawn by the brutish Nordians, and their final arrival in the court of the Trollantan rat king, the hideous Rodentia. The climax is the attack of the Trollantans on Quentaris and the joyful escape of the children - those who survive their torturous ordeal with the Trollantans, that is.
Gary Crew
GARY CREW is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. He has won the Children's Book Council of Australia's Book of the Year four times and his readers have come to expect shadowy, surprising, incredible stories that must be read, and read again.
STEVEN WOOLMAN (1969-2004) completed a degree in Design and Illustration at the University of South Australia in 1990 and was always fascinated by bizarre fantasy. For the illustrations in The Watertower, his fifth published book, he used a combination of acrylic paint and chalk and pencil on black paper.
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