Dorinda and Gudun: The Bizarre Bazaar and the Enchanted Doorknobs (#12)

Evgenios Trivizas

Isbn:

978-960-16-5673-1

Age Group:

5-10 years

Category:

Picture Books

Number of pages:

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BOOK

Dorinda and Gudun find in their garden an extremely rare coin. It is a scuxino, the currency used by witches to make their magic purchases. They can’t let an opportunity like this slip through their fingers, so they go to the magic bazaar and buy four enchanted doorknobs. One of the doorknobs is green, one yellow, one white and one blue. If you put any of these knobs on any door in your house and open it, instead of entering the room you are familiar with, you will find yourself somewhere else: In a desert, a tropical forest, an ocean or even at the North Pole. When Dorinda and Gudun change the knobs on the doors of their kitchen, bathroom, bedroom and living rooms, Daddy almost goes out of his mind over all those unexpected creatures and places that he encounters.

AUTHOR

Evgenios Trivizas

Evgenios Trivizas is a lawyer, a graduate of the Law School at the University of Athens, with a Master of Laws (University College) and a PhD in Law by the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a Senior Research Fellow of the University of London. He teaches Criminology and Comparative Criminal Law at the Reading University and he is also the Director for Criminal Justice Studies there. He has also taught at the Bramshill Police College, The Central London Polytechnic and the London School of Economics. Since 1993 to 1998 he’s been a lecturer of Criminology at the Panteio University of Athens. He has written over a hundred books for children, just the one book for adults, and over twenty theatrical plays. He has received numerous awards and great acclaim for his work: Awards by the Greek section of IBBY, the Parents Choice Amazing Accomplishment Award, the Shefficedls children’s Book Award Commendation, the Massachussets Children’s Choice Award, and many more.

ILLUSTRATOR

Vangelis Eleftheriou

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