Cross Purposes and The Shadows
                        
                     
                                                         
                
                    Cross Purposes and The Shadows
                                            
                            By George MacDonald
                            
                                31 Jan, 2020                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        The fairy Peaseblossom and the goblin Toadstool set off on the oddest mission: to lure a girl and a boy to Faery, to bring before the Queen -- for her subjects in Fairyland are too well-behaved to be amusing. Can they find the right dreamers? Then Pe
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                                                The fairy Peaseblossom and the goblin Toadstool set off on the oddest mission: to lure a girl and a boy to Faery, to bring before the Queen -- for her subjects in Fairyland are too well-behaved to be amusing. Can they find the right dreamers? Then Peaseblossom encounters Alice, who wishes she could watch a setting sun at all times -- while Toadstool runs into the nearly penniless Richard, who wants a buy a new umbrella for his mother. Perfect!
Yet nothing can go as planned . . . and soon Alice and Richard find themselves alone and lost in strange woods, with no help but the guidance of the strange creatures they encounter along the way. Less