| | CARBONEL |  | Author: Barbara Sleigh
Creator: V.h. Drummond.
Publisher: Max Parrish
Category: Book
Buy Used: £6.50
Avg. Customer Rating:  14 reviews
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 188
ASIN: B0007JVIUU
Publication Date: 1955
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: Published 1959. 4th impression. Hardback - red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine. Dustwrapper - worn to edges with a triange missing to bottom of front. A couple of figures in blue on fep. Pages clean and firm. Illustrated by V H Drummond.
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Magic March 24, 2008
This book was read to me as a child in the 1970s. It is a beautifully told story of magic and wholesome adventure. The rooftops of the town transform into "cat country" after nightfall. The story captivated my imagination to the extent that now, in my late 30s, I have a black cat called Carbonel. I read the whole series to my son (aged 6) last year and he too was transported into a magical land of imagination. It was a pleasure to read aloud. I can't recommend this book enough.
Yippee, I have found it. October 29, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I first read these books when I was about seven - many years ago. I always remembered them and vowed to get them for my own children when I had them. I have searched high and low over the years to no avail. I am afraid that my neice missed out on these books - she is now 27! - because I could not find them. However, my own six year old daughter and I will have a great time reading them now and I hope that she will love them as much as I did. I am thrilled to have found them.
carbonel September 15, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
when in primary school ( and i'm now in my forties)i was allowed just the one time to choose a book to buy from the new school book club.I chose carbonel, thrilled with my purchase i read my book under the cover of blankets in bed by torch light, my mum would have been furious! I was transported into another world i loved my book and when i finished it i read it again and again and again.I still have that original book and my daughter has also read it and loved it, in fact i think i may even read it again! I,ve loved all the potter books and pullmans dark materials, wish they,d been around in my younger days, better late than never. I tend to think of carbonel as a pre runner to these books.
I love Carbonel!! June 22, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have to add my own glowing review to the previous ones. I was an extremely avid reader as a child (we're talking 60s and 70s here)and spent hours in the library reading everything I could lay my hands on. Yet the Carbonel series of books touched me in a way nothing else did - I can remember sobbing and sobbing when I finished Kingdom of Carbonel thinking it was all over and that I would never experience the joy of reading another story about Carbonel. Even Narnia did not do that to me!
Somehow I do not remember the third book in the series? Perhaps if it is also reprinted now, it will be my chance to read it. Truly magical.
Carbonel by Barbara Sleigh April 3, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Can't believe i have managed to find this book! It must have been about 15 years ago that i first read this and it has rated as one of my favourite books of all time! Long before Harry Potter mania gripped the nation this book was floating around, transporting the reader to a magical world! Can't recommend it enough!
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