![]() Silkie lands with a thud, slowly becomes aware of a whimpering noise, and sits up to find herself and the others in a deep pit. ![]() The next morning, the five line up to push the boulder away from the entrance and push it and themselves out into space. Before going to sleep, the New Heroes roll the boulder back across the entrance to the tunnel. While the others are busy, Scumble scrapes around the base of every moon melon plant between the hole and the tunnel. The others are disgusted and refuse to eat the moon melon. Scumble, who is the only person willing to try it, finds it to be cooling and refreshing. They use a sword to cut the root, which they call a "moon melon", find out that the inside smells strongly like rotting vegetation. They dismiss his conjecture that an invisible animal dug the hole and tell him that he only got confused and went to a different place the second time. The others find him with the root and ask what happened. When he comes back, however, he finds a hole with the root lying at the bottom of it. He attempts to dig up a root which has put forth a few stems however finding the ground to be "iron hard" (70) he goes off for a spade to dig it up with. While the others are busying themselves looking for water or examining the items that have been left behind for them by the Old Heroes, Scumble goes off to look for anything that might be edible in the desert. Crustabread is also given Mingy's sand colored cloak that he used to hide from the Mushrooms.įinally left to their own devices, the New Heroes begin to prepare for the journey through this forbidding desert. The Old Heroes leave them with a supply of fishcakes, medicines (including the magic salve of the Mushrooms), a book of maxims created by Muggles, and a bag of gold coins. They roll away the stones blocking the entrance and seeing that they can no longer assist the New Heroes, The Old Heroes leave them to their quest. ![]() Together they travel through the tunnel in the Sunset Mountains which was mined by the Mushrooms in The Gammage Cup. The Old Heroes take The New Heroes to the knoll to begin their quest. Glocken finally realizes the identity of the five heroes and is rather disappointed because they seem too ordinary and flawed. A stone with a map on it that Glocken has brought with him that has been passed through his family leads Walter the Earl to believe that The Whisper is hidden in Frostbite near where the blockage is. ![]() They also discuss an ancient relic called The Whisper of Glocken, a bell supposed to have magical powers. They are tasked mistakenly given the task of finding out what is blocking the Watercress River and removing it. The next morning, Glocken meets with his four other companions and the five heroes from The Gammage Cup. After being fed soup he is taken to the house of Mingy and Muggles to sleep. During the beginning of their stay, he briefly meet each of the heroes but fails to recognize them for who they are. When they arrive at Slipper on the Water, they are taken in by the villagers. These five minnipins travel down the flooded river to Slipper on the Water, the town in which the heroes of The Gammage Cup live, Glocken is excited that he will finally meet these heroes at last. First of these is Glocken, the town bell ringer who has become obsessed with adventure after reading the account of the battle against the mushrooms Scumble, the town fish presser and sluice gate keeper Crustabread the loner Gam Lutie, a village elder who is overly concerned about her family treasure and a minnipin woman name Silky. The villagers soon realize that they must flee their village to escape being drowned by the flood.ĭuring the evacuation a group of five villagers come together who will become Kendall's central heroes. The flooding is unnatural even taking into account the recent heavy rains. Beginning with Glocken, the village bell ringer, the villagers begin to notice that their village is flooding. The story begins in Watergap which is the twelfth village along the Watercress river. The Minnipin valley is being flooded, and five new unlikely heroes set out on a quest to stop the flooding and save their homes. It is the second book in the series about the race of small people called the Minnipins, being a sequel to The Gammage Cup. The Whisper of Glocken is a children's novel by Carol Kendall, first published in 1965. Newbery Honor, ALA Notable Childrens Book, and Ohioana Book Award
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |