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A little girl asleep under a pomegranate tree in the king’s private garden works a kind of magic on the monarch. He watches over her but she never wakes and she keeps appearing in the king’s dreams. He leaves a toy for her, a spinning top. He gets the palace kitchen to prepare delicacies that he hopes she will like and he even makes a swing for her. Still she never wakens, though he does find the top in her hand and sees the remains of a rice pudding with strawberries that he brought her. At the palace his minions note that he has become gentler but also a bit strange, vetoing a war proposed by his generals because the noise would wake the child. After nine months, the girl has to leave, and the reader can only guess why. Nikolas Andrikopoulos’s illustrations capture the dreamy, mysterious atmosphere and the garden’s lush beauty.
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