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Impossible Creatures
The first book in a series by celebrated British children’s author and scholar Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures marks a new entry in the tradition of melding environmental themes with the fantasy genre. Two children, Christopher and Mal, team up to save an enchanted archipelago where magic is mysteriously fading—and where the magical creatures that call the islands home are dying. Read allegorically as a tale of climate crisis, the novel prompts questions about hope, despair, and responsibility in the face of ecological devastation, while framing human desire for power and control as environmentally harmful.
-NK