Author: Barbara ElseAge: 8-12Pages: 201Size: 19.8 × 12.9 cm
Else has built a fantastical world, rich in detail and imagination. NZ Booklovers
🇬🇧 Description:
Harsu has five droplets of god blood and a treasured cloak to remember his father by.
Now his father is gone, he lives with his mother, his only friend an old onager donkey. And something is not right with Harsu’s mother. She has started kidnapping children, and sometimes her skin grows a soft down, little sharp ears emerge, and she turns into a horrible stoat.
Harsu doesn’t know if five godlet drops are enough to help him rescue the kidnapped children and turn his own mother to good. And now that he is twelve, he too might be becoming a were-animal …
Reviews:
The book is a powerful fantasy for readers aged ten to twelve. Armadillo Magazine (UK)
Harsu and the Werestoat is an enjoyable read which has some lovely descriptions. I plan to read this to my class as soon as possible! Books for Topics
This is a story probably completely unlike any other you have read before. Part myth, part history, part fantasy, part time travel and all adventure, this is a very unusual tale. Reading Zone