Odds Are Good: An Oddly Enough and Odder Than Ever Omnibus
About this ebook
These two collections, in one volume for the first time, feature eighteen tales of unusual breadth and emotional depth. The stories move from a Minnesota bedroom upended by a fastidious Scottish brownie to an ancient temple where a young apprentice speaks prophecy through the language of blood.
Coville follows a boy who discovers a unicorn horn beneath his uncle’s bed, alongside a beheaded youth whose severed head counsels a frightened king by moonlight. The volume pairs gentle wonder with dark folklore: an old woman’s elven rescue and a boy’s terrifying descent beneath his own mattress.
This omnibus is a perfect introduction to Bruce Coville’s magic for the uninitiated.
Includes an introduction by Jane Yolen.
- Humorous Fantasy: Cousin Duffy’s chronic forgetfulness strands three campers in an abandoned hunting lodge, until a massive forest creature arrives to deliver his lost coat.
- Alien Worlds: On the planet Kwarkis, an ambassador’s son navigates six-armed classmates and alien customs while shielding his beloved miniature panda from an interplanetary dispute.
- Unlikely Hero: Swallowed by a wandering colossus, an ordinary villager joins fellow survivors to carve out a thriving community inside the safety of a hollow molar.
- Coming of Age Fantasy: Entrusted with a polished wooden chest by a winged messenger, a quiet boy guards the unopened secret across eight decades of doubt and change.
- Also by This Author: The Monster’s Ring, The Skull of Truth and Armageddon Summer.
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About the author
BRUCE COVILLE is the author of over 100 books for children and young adults, including the international bestseller My Teacher is an Alien, the Unicorn Chronicles series, and the much-beloved Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher. His work has appeared in a dozen languages and won children's choice awards in a dozen states. Before becoming a full time writer Bruce was a teacher, a toymaker, a magazine editor, a gravedigger, and a cookware salesman. He is also the creator of Full Cast Audio, an audiobook company devoted to producing full cast, unabridged recordings of material for family listening and has produced over a hundred audiobooks, directing and/or acting in most of them. Bruce lives in Syracuse, New York, with his wife, illustrator and author Katherine Coville.
