![]() ![]() Adults too will enjoy reading out loud the alliterative prose, the `maze of madness', `slithering sea' and `dreadful doldrums'. ![]() ![]() Bases' illustrations are as big, bright and beautiful as ever, and young readers (ages four to eight) will be enchanted to see the weird and wonderful creatures that Wilbur encounters on his trip, including a crab the size of an island and earwig pirates aboard a `bulbous bottle boat' trying to harness the lighbulbs of the unfortunate lantern fish. The Legend of The Golden Snail follows the intrepid Wilbur (and his trusty cat) as they set off on the trail of a mollusc that has been transformed into an enormous galleon, `a snailing ship', and banished to the Ends of the Earth by a Grand Enchanter. Fans of Graeme Base's intricate picture books will be pleased to know that his latest is just as gorgeously detailed as Animalia and The Eleventh Hour. ![]()
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