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    A Knight Of The Legion Of Honour Is Here
    A Knight Of The Legion Of Honour Is Here
    A Knight Of The Legion Of Honour Is Here
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    A Knight Of The Legion Of Honour Is Here

    By Zanna Mela-Florou

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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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherZanna Mela-Florou
    Release dateMar 7, 2014
    ISBN9781310884122
    A Knight Of The Legion Of Honour Is Here
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    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

      Copyright Information

      All rights reserved. Republication or reproduction of the present work in whole or in part by any means, as well as its translation, adaptation or any exploitation of its text or illustrations is prohibited according to the provisions of the Berne-Paris International Convention. Also prohibited is any reproduction, distribution or transmission of the layout, pagination, end papers and cover and of the aesthetic appearance of the book more generally, in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods.

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      Thank you for downloading this free e-book. Although this is a free book, it remains the copyrighted property of the author, and may not be reproduced, copied and distributed for commercial or non-commercial purposes. If you enjoyed this book, please encourage your friends to download their own copy at Smashwords.com. Thank you for your support.

      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,

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