Three Pickled Herrings by Sally Gardner

Author:Sally Gardner
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781627792905
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)

The shop door opened again, and the elf’s suitcase flew out and landed at his feet, followed by the vest.

Elvis knew he had been a very foolish elf indeed.

Chapter Fourteen

Emily lay on her bed watching as the ceiling turned into a sky, all golden, with pink clouds floating past. There’s a lot to be said, she thought, for living above a magic shop.

Yet something about that sky reminded Emily of airplanes. And airplanes reminded her of her mother and father. And the huge unanswered question that she often asked herself: Why had they never come back to find her?

Emily had been abandoned as a baby, left in a hatbox at Stansted Airport. The story she always told herself when feeling a touch on the blue side was this: Her mother was a princess, and her father was a Gypsy. They had been trying to escape the fury of the king, who had never wanted his daughter to marry the Gypsy in the first place. They had made it as far as Stansted Airport, where there had been a most terrible fight with the king’s men. The Gypsy, wounded in the arm, had accidentally dropped the hatbox, leaving Emily fast asleep inside with only a trick clock for company. Her parents made good their escape, caught a plane, and flew away.

The trouble was that Emily couldn’t understand why they had never come back to find her. She wondered if her parents had been kidnapped in some faraway land, or taken hostage by pirates, or were prisoners in the dungeons of a goblin king, a place full of dragons that liked nothing better than to feed on the toes of humans. If that was the case, thought Emily, maybe she needed to rescue them. But how? That was the question.

The clouds on the ceiling disappeared, and in their place was a red-and-white-striped puppet theater with Mr. Punch holding a baby.

“Hello, hello,” said Punch.

“Are you talking to me?” asked Emily.

“Yes, I am,” said Punch. “Here, catch the baby.”

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