The Second Forever

Description

Save the world but live forever. Peter and Festival have a terrifying choice to make ...When Peter and his friend Festival destroyed the book called How To Live Forever so it could no longer work its spell, they didn t know it would have disastrous consequences. Now, Peter s world is in the worst drought ever and Festival s world, inside the museum, is drowning. The only solution is to re-create the book. Can they reverse the water flow? And if they re-create the evil book, can they hide it so it can never be read again?

Since he started writing and illustrating children's books in 1990, Colin Thompson has had more than 60 books published. He has received several awards, including an Aurealis Award for the novel How to Live Forever and the CBC Picture Book of the Year in 2006 for The Short and Incredibly Happy Life of Riley. His books include The Floods series, The Dragons series, The Big Little Book of Happy Sadness picture book, which was shortlisted for the 2009 Children's Book Council Award for Best Picture Book, and Free to a Good Home. Visit his website at: www.colinthompson.com

"Not since Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose have libraries been so celebrated. Book-lovers and library-haunters will be enchanted. We who know the mysterious powers of the library will not be at all surprised by the goings on in Peter's museum, behind its hidden doors." --Virginia Lowe, winner of the 2004 Aurealis Award for Children's Novels--Short Fiction on How to Live Forever "Peter is a young boy who reminds us all what a wonderful thing it is to be curious and to find courage we don't realise is within us. . . . Thompson's writing is smooth and his storytelling agile. He introduces us to a world rich with characters and landscapes both grotesque and charming, and he fills this book with friendship and love." --Aurealis Awards Judges' Report 2004 on How to Live Forever