The Marvellous Land of Snergs

This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. The Marvellous Land of Snergs opens on a hidden fantasy realm cut off from the ordinary world by strange winds and waters, a place where children in need can be carried away to safety and where the impossible becomes practical. At its center stands Miss Watkyns, the brilliant, formidable organizer of the Society for the Removal of Superfluous Children, whose stern efficiency has built a whole self-contained community of houses, play spaces, forests, rules, and carefully managed comforts at Watkyns Bay. There the sturdy, long-lived Snergs live in their bustling town of leaning houses and covered ways, lending muscle, hospitality, and comic common sense to a society held together by food, labor, mischief, and order. Into this whimsical world come Sylvia and Joe, neglected children whose hardships and defiance set the adventure in motion. Their bond leads them into trouble, into Vanderdecken's melancholy camp, and toward a castle where prankish jests, lavish feasts, and medieval parody quickly give way to real danger. With Sir Percival, Gorbo, Baldry, ogres, witches, knights, captivity, and rescue all looming ahead, the story promises a playful, suspenseful fantasy of friendship, rebellion, and ever-escalating wonder.