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Book

The cardboard kingdom

Author

Chad Sell

Call Number

  • J GRAPHIC NOVEL SELL (CEN, EAS, OSH, POW, WSQ)

Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2018]

Physical Description

281 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 21 cm

Summary

Follows the adventures of a group of neighborhood children who create costumes from cardboard and use their imagination in adventures with knights, robots, and monsters.

Notes

"This is a Borzoi book published by Alfred A. Knopf"--Colophon.

Contents

  • The sorceress / The huntress / The big banshee / The alchemist and the blacksmith / The prince / The animal queen / The blob / Professor Everything / The gargoyle / The mad scientist / The robot / The army of evil / The bully / Megalopolis / Summer's end

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