Karina Wetherbee
Imagine a boundless palette upon which musings can soar, where young minds turntoadstools into tables for mice or mossy banks into condos for moles. Enter a world wherefaeries dance over sparkling streams, their wings shimmering, while malevolent beasts of legend peer out from the dark, craggy caves in some forgotten valley.In the tradition of Redwall, Wind in the Willows, and Mistmantle Chronicles, with a littlesplash of Lord of the Rings-style adventure, comes Stella and the Golden Crystal.Stella is a small gray squirrel, a reluctant heroine who must embark on a quest to recoverthe missing Crystal D’Or, a mystical gem of great power stolen away by the goblins who dwellin the high mountain caves in the distant Valley of No Trees, a place no young squirrel woulddare go alone. The goblins are bent on discovering a way to turn the faerie magic of the CrystalD’Or to ill. A clumsy rabbit, a pair of fellow orphan squirrels, a beaver, an ermine, and a marmotmake up some of the unlikely allies who join Stella in her attempt to save the Woodland Realm. 3
