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Автор Ева Ибботсон
EVA IBBOTSON
The Ogre of Ogleford
ILLUSTRATED BY LISA K. WEBER
DUTTON CHILDREN'S BOOKS
DUTTON CHILDREN’S BOOKS
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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Text copyright © 2011 by Eva Ibbotson
Illustrations © 2011 by Lisa K.
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Published in the United States by Dutton Children’s Books,
a division of Penguin Young Readers Group
345 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014
Originally published in Great Britain 2010 by Macmillan Children’s Books, London
Designed by Jason Henry
First American Edition * ISBN 9781101563519
Contents
1 GLADYS SAYS NO
2 FINDING A FAMILIAR
3 THE BOY
4 A MEETING OF UNUSUAL CREATURES
5 THE BRIEFING
6 MIRELLA
7 THE JOURNEY
8 GRIEF IN THE PALACE
9 WHAT OGRES EAT
10 CHARLIE
11 THE OGRE BREAKDOWN
12 THE CHANGING
13 REMOVING THE GRUMBLERS
14 THE HAG FINDS HER DRIBBLE
15 THE OGRE BATH
16 THE NORNS
17 THE MAGIC BEANS
18 MUSTERING PRINCES
19 WHIPPLE ROAD
20 THE OGRE'S AUNTS
21 THE BATTLE
22 THE HAUNTING
23 GERMANIA
24 THE AUNTS ARRIVE
25 THE WHITE BIRD
26 RETURN OF THE GHOSTS
27 GLADYS AGAIN
CHAPTER 1 GLADYS SAYS NO
Most people are happier when their feet are dry. They do not care to hear squelchy noises in their shoes or feel water seeping between their toes—but the Hag of the Dribble was different. Having wet feet made her feel better: it reminded her of the Dribble where she had been born and lived for the first seventy-eight years of her life, and now she dipped her socks into the washbasin and made sure they were thoroughly soaked before she put them on her feet and went downstairs to make porridge for herself and her lodgers.
