The Netherlands,1940:?Stasia Niemec might call the port city of Rotterdam home, but it is the summers she spends in the idyllic French countryside that she looks forward to every year. Here, in a land of medieval folklore and courtly romance, she finds the inspiration for the fairy tales she writes and illustrates. Here too, in the seemingly abandoned gardens of an old chateau, she meets Alexandre Cartier and forms an unbreakable childhood friendship that promises to blossom into something more as they become older. But before they can realize their dream of a future together, Germany invades, Stasia?s beloved city of Rotterdam is destroyed, and she witnesses unspeakable atrocities perpetrated by Hitler?s occupying forces.France, 2019:?Siblings Isabelle and Emelie?Lange grew up enchanted by the fairy tales written and illustrated by their great-grandmother, Stasia, about the magical gardens secreted behind the once-magnificent 18th-century chateau that lies just outside
Author : Kelly Bowen
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ISBN-10 : 9781538722145
ISBN-13 : 9781538722145