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- CENTRAL: Children's Collection
The night of wishes, or, The satanarchaeolidealcohellish notion potion
Call Number
- J ENDE (CEN)
Publication Information
New York : New York Review of Books, [2017]
Physical Description
218 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Uniform Title
Summary
"It's 5pm on New Year's Eve in the Villa Nightmare, and as Shadow Sorcery Minister Beelzebub Preposteror's thumb-striking clock counts down each hour with an 'Ouch!,' Minister Preposteror draws closer to missing his midnight deadline forfulfilling his annual quota of evil deeds and being 'foreclosed.' Up against a tight deadline and threats from His Hellish Excellency, the Minister of Pitch Darkness himself, Preposteror has all but given up when the arrival of an unexpected visitor promises hope: his aunt, the witch Tyrannia Vampirella, who proposes that they work together to brew the Notion Potion, a powerful formula that will grant all their evil wishes. The Night of Wishes, from The Neverending Story author Michael Ende, anticipates the world of Harry Potter: a world in which magic is not only very real, and wielded by both forces good and evil, but also bureaucratized, with its practitioners fitting into a tightly regulated hierarchical system"--
Notes
"First published in German in 1989 as Der satanarchäolügenialkohöllische Wunschpunsch by K. Thienmemanns Verlag, Stuttgart-Vienna"--Title page verso.