[Carbonel 03] • Carbonel and Calidor

“There are many kinds of magic…and once magic is in your blood it attracts more magic,” says the royal cat Carbonel at the start of *Carbonel and Calidor*. Sure enough, Carbonel’s human friends Rosemary and John soon encounter magic in the form of a ring set with a fiery red stone that grants wishes to whoever wears it. And it’s a lucky thing, too, because Carbonel needs Rosemary and John’s help. It seems that his son Calidor has rejected his princely status for the love of a streetwise cat named Wellingtonia (also known as Dumpsie). Even worse, Calidor has apprenticed himself to the witch-in-training Mrs. Dibdin. With all this going on, it’s just a matter of time before Carbonel’s old nemesis Grisana—accompanied by her slyboots daughter Melissa—hatches a plan to take control of Carbonel’s kingdom once and for all.

This third and final volume of the Carbonel series is as full of enchantment and adventure as its predecessors, *Carbonel* and *The Kingdom of Carbonel*. Read individually, or in sequence, Barbara Sleigh’s fantastic and fantastical trilogy casts an unforgettable spell.