He was brought up for a while by a stranger, Granny Bibspeak, who came to love Jack with all her heart. We then meet Jack Dory, an orphan whose parents were murdered by a robber in the woods. Because both Answelica and Edik loved Beatryce deeply, they would not let her leave alone, and went after her. We shall all, in the end, find our way home.” Father Caddis, fearing the King’s wrath, told Brother Edik that Beatryce must leave as soon as she is healthy enough to do so. Specifically, it is foretold: “There will one day come a girl child who will unseat a king and bring about a great change.”īack at the monastery, Brother Edik discovered that Beatryce could read and write – skills forbidden to females! The first thing she wrote for the monks was “We shall all, in the end, be led to where we belong. In alternate fonts, we learn that the King and his scheming counselor are looking for Beatryce, because she is spoken of in the prophecies. Edik marvels that the ill-tempered Answelica is doting and caring where Beatryce is concerned, and Edik soon becomes devoted to her as well. The girl has lost her memory she only remembers that she is called Beatryce. Brother Edik, scorned for his one wandering eye, is astounded one day to find the usually ornery Answelica in the barn cuddled up with a sick little girl. It begins with a goat, Answelica, who lives at a monastery called the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing. The author spins a story that takes place in that medieval world of fairy tales – familiar and yet ahistorical – in which there are princesses and kings and evil beings out to destroy any goodness in the world. The answer she offers is twofold: love, and stories, and she provides plenty of heartwarming examples of each, interspersed with occasional black-and-white illustrations by the incomparable Sophie Blackall. What can change the world? The author poses this question at the end of this enchanting fable.
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