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Originally Posted by Methariel
Hello everybody,
and Happy New Year to all of you. During the last three days, I was reading The Night of Wishes: Or the Satanarchaeolidealcohellish Notion Potion (German original title: Der satanarchäolügenialkohöllische Wunschpunsch) by Michael Ende to my daughters. Apart from it being fun for everybody - my wife, too - and me learning that speaking in the raven Jakob's voice often is straining my vocal cords, I realized the following:
The story very much can be read as the story of two servitors of Animals in their animal vessels trying to prevent two Sorcerers from creating a powerful potion/infernal relic. I'm just not sure if Cherub and Ofanite were the right Choirs... Maybe they're just relievers? That might explain their less-biased way of talking to Saint Sylvester, at least if he is serving Laurence, and not Yves.
I don't know if the book is that well-known outside of Germany, but it definitely is worth a read, especially if you have - or are connected to - children between ages 6 to 13.
Do you know any other children's literature, that can be read with an In Nomine-lens over it?
Yours,
M.
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I'll second the recommendation for
The Night of Wishes (which was also translated as
The Magickernotion Potion).
Garth Nix's
Keys to the Kingdom series is meant for tweens and has some very good parallels.
And I'll always throw John Masefield's
The Box of Delights into a list like this.