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A Spell from the Faraway Jungle has sent humans all over the world into hiding in their shuttered homes.
This is good news for animals all over the planet; they have come out of hiding and are enjoying a life of complete freedom out in the open.
A thirteen-year-old girl named Cathrin is caught in between her joy of seeing the animals in her backyard frolicking with complete abandonment and her father’s mission to destroy the Spell.
She embarks on a journey to the Faraway Jungle as she explores the cursed world and encounters the unlikely sorcerer of the Spell who is bent on avenging the killing of innocent animals—and makes a pact for a new order of life in which humans and animals live openly as good neighbors.
“This illustrated story for young readers is a Covid-19 allegory clothed in the trappings of a sweet fairy tale…”
-Kirkus Reviews
Published by Alfred A. Knopf/ A Borzoi Book, New York, 1999