Ice, ice everywhere. This afternoon would be great for skating, but instead Timothy and Verity Tibbs have to work in a frozen field, digging parsnips for mean Maw and Paw Grimble to boil into bad-tasting medi- cine. What a life! But suddenly it changes, when Lewis O. Ladybug, private detective brings news from another world.
The twins are no longer orphans. Their grandparents still live, prisoners of Raoul Owlstone, a mysterious dictator, and his army of stone owls. Now Timothy and Ver- ity have to save their Gran and Gramp- they have to. When they follow the tiny de- tective over a moonlit path to Other Earth. adventures happen fast. And one day they must climb a mountain to discover a vision of pure magic, hidden under a dome of thick black glass.
The perils the twins brave, and the amaz- ing friends they meet, make a lilting, excit- ing romp of a fantasy, Told originally to his own children.
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