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Plucky young Daisy, now the court's witch, is back for another
fact-based adventure alongside Queen Elizabeth. As a young witch,
Daisy Sparrow, gets used to her role as Queen Elizabeth I's
right-hand witch, providing spells and cures at her beck and call.
But things aren't completely merry in the castle. The constant
pressure from the Queen's advisors for her to marry and turn over
her power to a male sovereign boils over. Enter a prince from
rival-country Spain. Only, Daisy feels she has seen him before and
something's not quite right about him now. Can a young witch
protect her Queen from the various nefarious forces circling around
her?
Plucky young Daisy, now the court's witch, is back for another
fact-based adventure alongside Queen Elizabeth. As a young witch,
Daisy Sparrow, gets used to her role as Queen Elizabeth I's
right-hand witch, providing spells and cures at her beck and call.
But things aren't completely merry in the castle. The constant
pressure from the Queen's advisors for her to marry and turn over
her power to a male sovereign boils over. Enter a prince from
rival-country Spain. Only, Daisy feels she has seen him before and
something's not quite right about him now. Can a young witch
protect her Queen from the various nefarious forces circling around
her?
Elizabethan England is a time of superstition and strange goings
on.  If you have a problem, it’s common to go to a witch
for help. And Queen Elizabeth I is no different...When Daisy -- a
precocious young witch -- learns of the death of the Queen's Royal
Witch, she flies to London to audition as her replacement. But
Daisy is from a poor family, and they don't let just anyone into
the Royal Court. The only way into the palace is to take a job as a
cleaner. As Daisy cleans the palace, she draws the attention of
Elizabeth's doctor (and arch-heretic) John Dee, who places her into
the auditions -- much to the chagrin of her more well-to-do
competitors. But Dee knows how dangerous the corridors of power
have become, with dark forces manipulating events for their own
ends. To him, Daisy represents a wild card -- one that may decide
the fate of many. With so many wanting her to fail, Daisy will need
all her grit and determination to make it through these auditions
-- not to mention a sense of daring and adventure...
Named one of Rough Trade's Best Books of 2013
According to Gandhi, the Four Stages of Protest are as follows:
First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. Then they fight you.
Then you win
In "Fight the Power ," comics authors Sean Michael Wilson and
Benjamin Dickson team up with illustrators Hunt Emerson, John
Spelling, and Adam Pasion to show how this process has been played
out again and again throughout history--and has slowly but surely
led to hard-won rights for the people along the way. Focusing on
the English-speaking nations, Wilson and Dickson chronicle the
struggles of the Luddites and Swing Riots in the early 1800s,
through the Irish Rebellions that lasted through 1922; from the
suffragettes in 1918 to Rosa Parks and the bus boycott of the
mid-1950s; from the trial of Nelson Mandela to the Occupy movement
that has only just begun. By illuminating the variety of
protests--and the valuable connections among them--through an
accessible art form, " Fight the Power " shows that there is a
point to the struggle, fight by fight, win by win.
Elizabethan England is a time of superstition and strange goings
on.  If you have a problem, it’s common to go to a witch
for help. And Queen Elizabeth I is no different...When Daisy -- a
precocious young witch -- learns of the death of the Queen's Royal
Witch, she flies to London to audition as her replacement. But
Daisy is from a poor family, and they don't let just anyone into
the Royal Court. The only way into the palace is to take a job as a
cleaner. As Daisy cleans the palace, she draws the attention of
Elizabeth's doctor (and arch-heretic) John Dee, who places her into
the auditions -- much to the chagrin of her more well-to-do
competitors. But Dee knows how dangerous the corridors of power
have become, with dark forces manipulating events for their own
ends. To him, Daisy represents a wild card -- one that may decide
the fate of many. With so many wanting her to fail, Daisy will need
all her grit and determination to make it through these auditions
-- not to mention a sense of daring and adventure...
1945. The war is over. Eleven year-old Ralph lives with his mother,
plays in bombed-out buildings, and dreams of the day his father
will come home and tell him all about his heroic battles. But when
his father actually does return, he's far from what Ralph expected:
his father is sullen, withdrawn and refuses to discuss the war at
all. As Britain looks to a future fit for heroes, Ralph's father
struggles to adjust to civilian life. Susceptible to fits of crying
and uncontrollable rages, his behaviour starts to directly impact
Ralph and his mother, and the community around them.
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