California, the Magic Island

by Doug Hansen

Book Overview

Queen Calafia, the main character of a sixteenth-century Spanish romance about an island overflowing with gold and populated by Amazon-like women, is incensed when she hears that we have adopted her name for our state. Being the good and reasonable queen that she is, she's willing to hear from twenty-six animals about why California is worthy of her name. But if she decides it isn't, she'll launch an army of goddesses riding griffins to wreak her...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1597143324
• ISBN13: 9781597143325
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Heyday Books
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.1" x 12.1"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3