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    The Muffkins and the Magic Fernseed
    The Muffkins and the Magic Fernseed
    The Muffkins and the Magic Fernseed
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    The Muffkins and the Magic Fernseed

    By Linda Talbot

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    The Muffkins - Willie, Millie and their parents - are a family of toys, weary of being badly treated by Big Bunty. In this story - "The Muffkins and the Magic Fernseed", they hear Bunty's mother tell her a story about magic fernseed that can cause invisibility. When the Muffkins are washed downstream in a flood after heavy rain, Willie suggests they find this magic fernseed so they may be invisible and no longer tormented by children. To cast the spell it has to be midsummer and they need a pewter plate and a forked hazel branch. After Willie's adventure in a kitchen with a hungry cat, the items are found and the spell cast, so the Muffkins are invisible and able to live happily at last among the mystified villagers.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLinda Talbot
    Release dateOct 13, 2017
    ISBN9781370697038
    The Muffkins and the Magic Fernseed
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    Linda Talbot

    Linda Talbot has written fantasy for children and adults and for many years reviewed art, theatre and books in London. She now lives in Crete. She published "Fantasy Book of Food"; rhymes, stories and recipes for children and "Five Rides by a River" - about Suffolk, seen from a bicycle! She contributed a chapter to a book about Conroy Maddox, the British surrealist and features on art to "Topos" the German landscape magazine. She published short stories with the British Fantasy Society as well as stories and poetry in other magazines. And she launched "Wordweavers", an online supplement of poetry and fiction, published in conjunction with The Cretan International Community.

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