![]() ![]() ![]() Kit is working, sometimes reluctantly, for DeWilde - although he helps the two older girls on more than one occasion. Kit's quest is to get his hands on a magic pipe bequeathed to Storm by her dying mother. Storm encounters a boy named Kit, who has a splinter of ice in his heart (making him akin to Hans Christian Andersen's Kay). She finds children for DeWilde and fattens them up so that DeWilde can enslave them. His assistant in acquiring such children is a witch named Bee Bumble, who lives in rather more upmarket version of the gingerbread house. The villain of the piece is a man called Dr DeWilde, who is usually accompanied by at least half a dozen wolves and who needs a constant supply of plump children to work in the underground gemstone mine beneath Piper's Peak. The three live in a dilapidated manor house called Eden End. Aurora (almost 16), Storm and baby Anything Eden are almost-orphans (their mother died after giving birth to Anything and their father has disappeared to who-knows-where). The story is both a quest and a rescue, although the two often merge, double up and split apart again. Lyn Gardner's Into the Woods is an interesting tale about three sisters that incorporates a host of familiar fairy tale elements (and numerous other pop culture references) that are used in interesting ways. ![]()
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