![]() ![]() It is not until he meets up with the Sky Captain Cloud Wolf and his crew that we can take a breath, settle down and let Stewart & Riddell enchant us with the charming narrative and illustrations which have made this series so popular.īeyond the Deepwoods is filled with wonderful characters but there is one that stands head and shoulders above them all… the banderbear. For example, once Twig makes the near-fatal mistake of straying from the path, he encounters oakelves, a halitoad, a hoverworm, Slaughterer’s, hammelhorns, a skullpelt, a caterbird, the bloodoak, Gyle goblins, their Grossmother, a spindlebug and the horrific rotsucker in very short succession. ![]() The story moves along at a rate of knots and our hero, the endearing Twig, falls from frying pans into fires with alarming regularity. Written by Paul Stewart and illustrated by Chris Riddell, it forms part of the Edge Chronicles, a series that has sold almost one and half million copies worldwide.īeyond the Deepwoods is an all-action fantasy adventure. So begins an adventure that will take Twig through a nightmare world of goblins and trogs, bloodthirsty beasts and flesh-eating trees.īeyond the Deepwoods is the first book in The Twig Trilogy, a fantasy series for older children / young adults. One cold night, Twig does what no woodtroll has ever done before – he strays from the path. ![]() Abandoned at birth in the Deepwoods, Twig is brought up by a family of woodtrolls. ![]()
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