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Margot Apple , Patrick Skene Catling

John Midas loves candy, especially chocolate. Concerned about his unhealthy diet, his parents take him to the doctor, who prescribes nutritional supplements, but John continues to crave sweets. When he finds a strange coin – emblazoned with the initials J.M. – lying on the pavement, he wastes no time in exchanging it for a box of chocolates from a mysterious sweet shop that John has never seen before. When John gets home, he is disappointed to find that the large and lavish box conta(...)

literary

YEAR: 1952

COUNTRY: United States of America

TAGS: Golden Touch Midas

Pauline Baynes, Clive Staples (C.S.) Lewis

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (The Chronicles of Narnia, 3)

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is the third book published in the Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis. Two of the children from the first books, Lucy and Edmund, have been sent to stay with their strange Aunt and Uncle and insufferable cousin, Eustace. Looking at a painting on one of the walls in the house, the children see a boat on a sea begin to move. They are taken inside the painting, and land aboard the Dawn Treader. On the ship, they are reunited with King Caspian, previously Prince Caspi(...)

literary

YEAR: 1952

COUNTRY: United Kingdom

TAGS: Ancient Slavery Minos Odysseus / Ulysses Sirens