Paul Biegel Quotes

“One morning, after a fierce storm, the people of the harbour come down to find a strange ship called the Neversink stuck fast on top of the sand dunes.”

″ Inside is only a small boy with a big cap - The Little Captain.”

“He and his ship stay marooned on top of the dunes until one day a giant wave sweeps the Neversink to freedom.”

“And so The Little Captain sets sail once more, this time with three of the town’s children, Podgy, Marinka and Thomas, as his crew mates.”

″ Together they are determined to find the island of Evertaller ....”

″.. the island of Evertaller, where legend has it children turn into grown-ups overnight and never have to go to school again…”

“it is written very well and the story of a young captain going off into the big world is one that one cannot easily forget. ”

“The children’s book follows the adventures of the Little Captain, sailing in his ship called the Neversink. ”

“Its a book about a boy who lives in a boat stranded near the beach. The boat is upside down. This boy doesn’t speak much. He stairs at the sea into the distance dreaming of traveling over the sea.”

“The people from the harbor were curious, and Salty, one of the people, asked the little captain to go live with them, which he refused.”

“It concerns the failing health of an elderly king who is kept alive by stories told by visiting animals.”

“The Wonder Doctor’s quest, full of pitfalls, was perilous at best. Would he make it back to the castle, with the Golden Speedwell, in time to save King ...

“At the end of his thousand-year reign of the Copper Mountains, old King Mansolain is tired and his heart is slowing down.”

“When his attendant, the Hare, consults The Wonder Doctor, he is told he must keep the King engaged in life by telling him a story every night until the Doctor can find a cure.”

“The search is on for a nightly story more wonderful than the last, and one by one the kingdom’s inhabitants arrive with theirs, the ferocious Wolf, the lovesick Donkey, the fire-breathing three-headed Dragon. ”

“Last to arrive is the Dwarf, with four ancient books and a prophecy that the King will live for another thousand years – but only if the Wonder Doctor returns in time.”

“The wolf came to a halt and pricked up his ears. There was no longer any sound of trampling hoofs, no snorting, no cracking of branches. Wast he buffalo hiding?”

“For more than a thousand years already he had reigned over all the animals and dwarfs, and over the dragons too while they were still in existence. But as nowadays he never went out, there was scarcely anyone left who knew him.”

“His servants had died one after the other until only the hare remained. So these two lived quietly together in the copper castle until the king began to cough so badly that his beard shoos and the hare grew very anxious.”

“The next morning the king felt so much better he took a little stroll with the wolf in the crystal room of the castle. The san shone in and lighted up the pots of geraniums the hare thad arranged there.”

“One day the squirrel Lesp called his wife and children together and said: ‘We are going to move to a new home.’ ‘Where to, Father Lesp?’ they asked. ‘To the other side of the plain,’ Lesp said. ‘The trees are better over there.”