Three elderly, eccentric sisters – Aunts Etta, Coral, and Myrtle – run a secret island sanctuary for injured magical creatures, including mermaids, the strange and enormous boobrie bird, selkies, and the helpless baby of the legendary kraken.
Realizing they are too old to maintain the mission, the Aunts travel to London and controversially 'kidnap' three children – the resourceful Minette, the well-mannered Fabio, and the spoiled Lambert – to train as their successors.
While Minette and Fabio quickly embrace their duties caring for the creatures, Lambert sabotages the operation by contacting his ruthless, money-hungry father, Mr. Sprott, who arrives intending to turn the unique menagerie into a theme park. It is up to the children, the aunts and the 'monsters' to team up and save the island from the real monster . . .
'Wildly original and wholly satisfying' - The Guardian
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Eva Ibbotson was born in Vienna in 1925 and moved to England with her father when the Nazis came into power. Ibbotson wrote more than twenty books for children and young adults, many of which garnered nominations for major awards for children's literature in the UK, including the Nestle Smarties Book Prize and the Whitbread Prize. Eva's critically acclaimed
More about Eva IbbotsonAlex T. Smith has drawn and written stories since he could hold a pencil. After considering several career options (space traveller, cake maker, professional rabbit), Alex decided to train to do the job he'd wanted to do since he was five - an illustrator specializing in the world of children's publishing.
Alex graduated with a first-class degree i
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