Description

This is a groundbreaking mix of fiction and full-colour comic strip that follows a headstrong girl s journey into the bizarre fictional world of Abadazad to rescue her younger brother. In Queen Ija s Promise , Kate s little brother, Matt, goes missing at a fun fair and five years later she is still coming to terms with it; failing her classes and fighting with her mum. Then an odd, elderly neighbout tells Kate that the world of Abadazad, a fictional fantasy realm that featured in Matt s favourite stories, is real, and that Matt s been abducted into this wonderland. Kate is sceptical, but when the old lady dies and Kate receives a glowing blue orb in a package, she is carried to Abadazad, a place where sorrow has no home – where time has no meaning – where joy lives forever! But why didn t the author of Abadazad mention the Shellopers bad breath? Or Queen Ija s blue skin ?And how is she going to defeat someone as crazed and evil as Lanky Man?