Scent, the mysterious and essential powers of smell

By Annick Leguerer and Annick Le Guérer

Book Overview

Melinda and Felix Hutton are just an ordinary pair of siblings, until their parents confess that they have all inherited the talent of metamorphosis, a revelation that begins to unravel the children's world. Ten-year-old Melinda embraces her Athenite heritage, but her efforts often end up leaving her freckled face attached to feathered body with a twitching rat's tail. Her older brother Felix doesn't greet this new reality as something to celebrate. Wishing he were normal, Felix resents becoming parts of the myths and fables he's read. But there's a threat rising just as the children are learning of their talents, and a powerful enemy will use every trick and tool he has to keep the family from letting slip the secret of their gifts. With only the help of Melinda's pet rabbit Aesop, who has begun acting awfully strange lately, Felix and Melinda determinedly fight back against the suffocating grasp of those who want to drive the Huttons and their kind back underground.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394585267
• ISBN13: 9780394585260
• Release Date: October 1992
• Publisher: Random House, Inc.
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 1.0" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

Intriguing, thought-provoking, and universal!

This book provides much intriguing and fascinating information on the role of scent and smell over history. It's captivating to find the emphasis past cultures and time periods had on scent and smells - and how much of that we have lost. Particularly interesting are the sections on scent as it relates to seduction and magic. A bit "scholarly" but understandable and educational!