Otto and the Bird Charmers

by Charlotte Haptie (Author)

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  2004

  $3.32

  It is the spring following the events in Otto and the Flying Twins, and Otto's world is still strangely unpredictable: the Karmidee still an underclass of 'magicos', his parents at odds, and the twins still unable to fly free. And the City of Trees is in the grip of something strange - with the approach of spring, when there should be warmer weather, carnivals and celebration, there is instead increasing cold, snow, bitter blizzards, a frightening upside-down world of ice. Once again, the Karmidee are blamed. But if they ever knew how to control the weather, they have long ago forgotten. Otto and Mab must help to find the answer. Otto encounters the legendary Wool Bandits, helps a miniature family with a dangerous secret and, together with new and extraordinary friends, must challenge the ancient powers of the sinister Bird Charmers.

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  Paperback
  2003

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  Otto is our endearingly bewildered young hero whose world suddenly becomes very odd. Going with his father, Albert, to the FireBox Launderette, Albert is called to help with 'failing machinery' and is seen by Otto calming a purple dragon in the back room. When his baby sisters start to fly, his grandmother becomes a unicorn, and street waifs fly along the street at night on magic carpets pursued by the new Normal Police force, life becomes odder and scarier. Otto learns - often riotously - that his city and his family are very special indeed. Here the last remaining magical people - the Karmidee - are living as an underclass of pedlars and tinkers, known as the 'magicos'. But legend tells of a King, birthmarked with a butterfly, who will save the Karmidee from extinction. Particularly from the new Minister for Modernisation, Councillor Elfina Crink. With her Impossible List and Normal Police, she is determined to stamp out the Karmidee spirit. As repression intensifies, the Karmidee and their powers go underground, but their magic bursts out in the most unexpected places as a bid for freedom, with surprising, hilarious and extraordinary results.

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  Hardcover
  2002

  $3.32

  When Otto sees his father soothing what looks very much like a purple dragon, he finds his world suddenly becoming very odd. He discovers that his family and his city are the last remnants of the ancient magical world now under threat from the new human Normal Police, and something must be done.