{"product_id":"the-incredible-adventures-of-absolutely-amanda-rotach-lamkin-9781948807296","title":"The Incredible Adventures of Absolutely Normal","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe kingdom of Gwytthenia is in peril. A plague has festered and has transformed the once beautiful land into one of dearth and danger. After years of exile in His castle and feeling like an unwelcome stranger in his own land, the good King sends trusted emissaries to our world in order to fetch a hero. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEnter Samuel Christopher McCubbins: an extraordinary boy who is handsome, brave, smart, well-liked, and everything a hero should be.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut this story is not about Samuel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor from the bed where Samuel should be, the king's emissaries find and abscond with Samuel's cousin, Albert, a boy who is -by anyone's estimation, including his own- absolutely normal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Albert wakes up, he is stranded, hurt, and alone in a snowbank. There, he is discovered by a gruff but loveable penguin named Malarkey. Once he has nursed Albert back to health, Malarkey tells Albert to find the King and ask why he was brought here.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis simple, straightforward quest on which Malarkey sends Albert turns out to be, well, malarkey. Instead, Albert finds himself facing one disaster after another: giant spiders, monsters of many heads, and near starvation in the crossings of a wilderness, among other dangers. Yet, through it all he perseveres, finding friendship and kindness in the uncanny forms of dwarves obsessed with 1950's Americana, flying bears, fierce warrior women, and many others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Incredible Adventures of Absolutely Normal\u003c\/em\u003e is an old-fashioned fairytale, reminiscent of \u003cem\u003eThe Chronicles of Narnia\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Lord of the Rings\u003c\/em\u003e. It lays out for readers the making of a hero and shows them how strength lies within us all, if only we have the courage to look for it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Amanda Rotach Lamkin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1948807297\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781948807296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Line by Lion Publications\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/15\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 190\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.96lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d","brand":"Amanda Rotach Lamkin","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44076896944383,"sku":"9781948807296","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c9ed2743-307a-4fd1-bec9-473b6eaf6592.jpg?v=1685467358","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-incredible-adventures-of-absolutely-amanda-rotach-lamkin-9781948807296","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}