The Marvellous Land of Snergs by E. A. Wyke-Smith

Description

Beyond the little town of Watkyns Bay — where the children play in the water and a vigilant town keeps watch — there lies a country unlike any other. Its nearest ‘people’ are the Snergs, a home-loving, kind-hearted folk too charming for the world’s worries, and its further reaches hide a properly enormous, secretly kindly ogre named Golithos, whose dinner-table manners threaten to be the making of the plot. Into this land wander Sylvia and Joe, two children of an orphanage on the shore, on an adventure that was really nobody’s fault and becomes everybody’s.

E. A. Wyke-Smith’s novel is one of the touchstones of children’s fantasy: a world kept just small enough to be believable and just strange enough to be magical, full of comforts and dangers in equal measure, from the mushroom cavern and the twisted trees to the king of the Snergs and his feast. Written with an unfailing comic tenderness, it has been loved by readers for generations — and by adult readers for its perfectly judged prose — as a companion piece to every enchanted isle in the English imagination.

Why readers still come back to it

• A founding classic of children’s fantasy — warm, funny, and strange
• The famous and beloved Snergs, the kindest little people in fiction
• An ogre with the best table manners in literature

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