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Elphinstone is also a word conjurer delighting in the use of portmanteau terms and the sounds her chosen vocabulary makes lending itself to being read aloud to a primary school audience. Her characters' names are charmingly apposite (quite Dickensian) and she pays tribute to C.S Lewis and J.K Rowling. There is even an allusion to Jim Henson's movie The Dark Crystal with the Unmappers threatened by the same fate as the Gelflings. Fans of Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them will also be delighted by magical creatures like glass wing butterflies, trunklets and boglets and furniture that changes to fit your personality.
There will be more Unmapped Kingdoms to be explored in the next instalments of the Chronicles with new weather miracles to be protected by different adventurers. To celebrate the release of Jungle Drop Abi has launched a competition for wordsmiths. All that needs to be done to win a signed copy of JUNGLEDROP is to "invent a name for a magical creature, a magical object and a magical place that you might find in an enchanted jungle... Write a sentence about each name you invent that describes what it is. " Entries in by September 20th 2020. Details are available on her website for any interested readers. We also have a review of [[Rumblestar (The Unmapped Chronicles) by Abi Elphinstone]].
For more fantasy with an ecological message why not travel to the astounding and wacky upside version of the city of London where arachnid windows descend, unbrellas attack, words become utterlings and ninja bins guard an evasive bridge in [[Un-Lun-Dun by China Mieville]] or for a quest to find yourself follow the yellow brick road to [[The Wizard of Oz by L Frank Baum, Michel Laporte, Olivier Latyk and Vanessa Mieville (translator)]]. You could also just vanish into another world through a portal in [[The Chronicles of Narnia by C S Lewis]] or visit the fabulous Hotel Deucalion in [[Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend]].
