I would recommend to younger kids (not middle grade age, but younger) and adults who enjoy charming children’s stories. I enjoyed the writing style and the story it stands up to the test of time very nicely. Overall this was a wonderful story about a young girl and her magical cat and the summer she spends hunting treasure with him. My 11 year old son started to read this and stopped because he thought it was boring so this book would probably be better for younger kids or adults who enjoy charming kids stories. For whatever reason they drew me in, and they taught me that I could always store part of myself in a world of the imagination. I read these books time, and time, and time again when I was a child. Still this was a great read and something I think kids and adults will both enjoy. A children’s book: Carbonel, by Barbara Sleigh, and also the sequel, The Kingdom of Carbonel. There is some terminology in here that is a bit dated and I kind of had to use the surrounding context to figure out what some words meant. There’s a bit of a treasure hunt theme to this book and I enjoyed it a lot. I loved Carbonel and the wonderful relationship Rosemary has with her mother, as well as the friendship she develops with John. It’s just such a classy, solid story and such lovely stuff.This was a fun children’s book that is well written and stands the test of time pretty well. The chapters are self-contained and deeply satisfying in their own right and although a more modern audience might be unfamiliar with some of the vocabulary of the time, it’s written so tightly that the reader just rolls along with it. She’s clearly familiar with what it takes to write a story but also, I think, in what it takes to read a story. There’s something very classic and confident about this, Sleigh’s debut. Give me a slightly stroppy partner in crime who will do anything for their friend and I’m there. There’s also something very particular about a slightly sarcastic and curmudgeonly magical chum. There’s something very particularly British (and very particularly mid-twentieth century British) about magic being found on your doorstep. What I liked, however, was how immediate and everyday this magic was. The spell must be broken by Rosemary who, in trying to find extra money to bring home to her impoverished mother, finds herself embroiled in mysterious and magical goings on. I like the way that libraries do that sometimes they give you the things that you did not quite mean to get and yet knew you always wanted.Ĭarbonel is a cat and he is under a spell. Carbonel has been on my radar for some time and so when I spotted it, I grabbed. I had prepared for this day with a visit to the library, picking things that I thought might be in my wheelhouse and things that I had been meaning to read for some while and yet never got around to it. When it is a hot day, we turn to the shadows and we read the books. Carbonel: The King of the Cats by Barbara Sleigh
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