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of Children's Books
Newly Published
Thousands of
years before the Alyphanties, the "little mountain people," settled in caves
on the top of Backbone Mountain, Malik, the ferocious wind from the north,
carved out a cavern for himself in the mountain. When he finished he went
inside and rested. The lesser winds, relieved that he no longer raged about,
got together and wedged a boulder in the cavern entrance, trapping Malik
inside.
"He's still in
there," Esseldorph told the Alyphanty children seated around him in his
cave. "And that's why you must never go near the Great Cavern of the Winds."
But the children
remembered that five years ago, Malik had been let loose. Who hadn't heeded
Esseldorph's warnings?
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