A Knight Of The Legion Of Honour Is Here: Flying Pages, #1
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In this fully illustrated book the reality of life as we actually live it is convincingly interwoven with that of dreams, myth and the ever-shifting rainbow world of the creative imagination. The example of the classic fairy tale is grafted with admirable skill onto the world of its modern technological counterpart, giving us a whole new body of imaginary life which, with but a little effort of will, can actually materialize. The author takes genuine events and situations as her starting point to soar into the new realities her fertile imagination has created; and yet this, too, is grounded in our own reality.
Zanna Mela-Florou
Zanna Mela-Florou, writer, painter, illustrator.
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A Knight Of The Legion Of Honour Is Here - Zanna Mela-Florou
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I read the 'Open Illustrated Book' entitled 'A Knight of the Legion of Honour is here' with great interest and found it original in many respects: illustration, structure, content and psychology. The style is tender, light and playful, pitched between the world of dreams and reality, with a strong element of animism, and gives even greater life to the illustrations. I liked the story's underlying historical and mythological foundations and the dreamlike way it travels the whole world, as well as its symbolic search for a 'lost identity', and the animals and children that feature in it. This is a book written with both imagination and enthusiasm. I hope it gets into young people's hands, to wash their eyes clean of rubbish and give them a real appreciation of the beautiful world of nature. Congratulations - and keep up the good work!
V.D. Anagnostopoulos
Professor Emeritus, University of Thessaly
24/5/2010
...If one were to try to place this book in any particular category, I think it would come under the heading 'Little Mythical Encyclopedia' since it uses simple language, accessible to children, to take them on a journey to magical planets, the snowy abodes of bears and penguins, bright green jungle palaces, dreamlike castles and pirates' lairs where adventures, traps and clever solutions abound, all made more attractive by the author's humour and artistic sensibility.
The content of the story owes its being to the heroine of the book, whose nationality and origins we never learn, and is the product of her vivid imagination...
Yolanda Pateraki, author
'Diavazo' magazine, issue 506, April 2010
Title: A Knight of the Legion of Honour is here
Author - Illustrator: Zanna Mela-Florou
Published by Zanna Mela-Florou at Smashwords
Copyright 2013 Zanna Mela-Florou
ISBN: 9789609205870
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Table of Contents
I_Cover
II_Reviews
III_Title Page
IV_Copyright
V_Prologue
VI_About the author Zanna Mela-Florou
Part One
Ch01_An Incredible Dream
Ch02_Famous Monsters
Ch03_Dream Princess
Ch04_Weird Visitors to the Surface of the Earth
Ch05_The Magic Planet with Six and a Half Billion Inhabitants
Ch06_In the Snowy Palaces of the Polar Bears
Ch07_In the Snowy Palaces of the Penguins
Ch08_A Hidden City
Ch09_In Bright Green Jungle Palaces
Ch10_A Primitive Family
Ch11_The Mask of Chief Fortunate
Ch12_Dream Castles
Ch13_The Lost Identity Card
Ch14_The Little American Indian Girl
Ch15_The Little Greek Girl
Ch16_The Little Amazon
Ch17_The Travelling Island
Ch18_The Pirate's Golden Hideaway
Ch19_The Children's Party
Part Two
Ch20_The King of the Big Top
Ch21_Walking into the Pirate's Trap
Ch22_A Pirate Ship on Land
Ch23_The Author Enters our Story
Ch24_Pirate Piranha's Treasure
Ch25_Funland's New Proprietor
Ch26_The Author Transformed
Ch27_The Author is trapped
Ch28_Our Story Ends
Prologue
Could she be the daughter of some king, this young person with neither name nor family; or does she belong to an American Indian tribe? Is she perhaps descended from the Inuits of the frozen North, or is she the descendant of some bloodthirsty pirate?
Whoever our little heroine may be, she is wonderfully talented in many ways, such as writing down and painting her crazy dreams and her conversations with ghosts and supernatural beings. She creates a vivid, lively tale of her imagined life, plays roles in it herself, in some of which she is transformed, and changes the fortunes of her characters.
Will the knight help this lovable little girl to realize her dreams and enjoy the recognition that her work deserves?
Part One
Ch01_An Incredible Dream
It is evening, my friends. Can you, too, see the shadow lurking outside that paradise, the Super Spectacle Circus? It is Switchblade, a thief who works by night, and he is laying an ambush. The figure of the would-be robber moves again the moment he sees a wild man - like a monkey - slipping out all alone into the dark, dressed up like a king, his pockets bulging with money.
How easy it will