"The fast-paced, episodic story, accompanied by Auxier's occasional pen-and-ink drawings, is inventive, unpredictable, and-like its hero-nimble. When he tries the first pair, he is instantly transported to a hidden island where he is presented with a special quest: to travel to the dangerous Vanished Kingdom and rescue a people in need.Īlong with his loyal sidekick-a knight who has been turned into an unfortunate combination of horse and cat-and the magic eyes, Peter embarks on an unforgettable, swashbuckling adventure to discover his true destiny. One fateful afternoon, Peter steals a box from a mysterious traveling haberdasher-a box that contains three pairs of magical eyes. will hope to find." - Wall Street Journal Bir aksamustu Peter icinde uc cift sihirli goz bulunan esrarengiz bir kutu calar. Peter Nimble ve Sihirli Gozler on yasindaki yetim bir kor cocugun buyuleyici hikiyesidir. "As delightful a magical story as readers. Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes (Peter Nimble, 1) by Jonathan Auxier. When Peter drops the first pair into his eye-sockets, he’s. His wretched existence changes when he steals a box containing eggs that are actually three pairs of magical eyes. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy notice.įrom Jonathan Auxier, the New York Times bestselling author of The Night Gardener, comes the utterly beguiling tale of a 10-year-old blind orphan who has been schooled in a life of thievery. Blinded by ravens in infancy and made to steal for the town’s beggar-monger (think Fagin), Peter becomes an expert thief and pickpocket. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Click "Decline" to reject, or "Customise" to make more detailed advertising choices, or learn more. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Cookies store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. Your choice applies to using first-party and third-party advertising cookies on this service. If you agree, we'll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. Peter has lived his entire life trusting his other senses, so when those senses raise a red flag, he knows to heed the warning.We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie notice. Princess, I don’t care what you believe, Peter said, rising with Sir Tode. And this ‘blind dummy’ just happens to be the legendary Peter Nimble. The visual world of the Vanished Kingdom is a carefully constructed mirage designed to keep its subjects compliant. You can read Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes online for free here. In the Eating Hall, he hears the strangely unequivocal jollity of every person he meets: “there was something behind the clean floors and cheery voices that made him uneasy” (173). In his food, Peter can taste the Devil’s Dram, a sensory feat none of the adults can manage. The optics support that assertion, but Peter, who cannot see the surface richness around him, knows something is off. Molasses rescues Peter, she raves about how perfect the kingdom is: the palace, the food, the king. His other senses are so acute that he detects sounds and smells that would escape a sighted person, a distinct advantage in a world in which all is not as it seems. The idea that eyes can be deceived is an old trope that underlies adages like “Don’t judge a book by its cover.” Peter Nimble, robbed of eyesight in infancy, has never learned to trust his eyes, so they cannot deceive him.
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