Isabel Abedi » Forbidden World « Coverillustration by Michael Bayer 10+, October 2006 464 pages, 14.0 x 21.5 cm ISBN 978-3-7855-5699-3 hardcover 14,90 € (D) Rights sold: Greek, Hungarian, Polish, Spanish, Korean, Turkish

Reginald has gained a dangerous power. He can shrink anything he likes. And he wants nothing less than the world's most famous buildings. The originals in miniaturized form, of course. Gradually he builds up a huge landscape in his cellar.
But Reginald has overlooked something, or more precisely someone. Otis was locked in the Statue of Liberty and Olivia had fled from the police into the famous Berlin department store KaDeWe, when suddenly at night the buildings shrank. Now the children are the size of a fingernail... While they fight for their lives, chaos breaks out in the world outside: where have the monuments gone? And who has stolen them?

Isabel Abedi was born in 1967. After finishing school she spent a year in the US, working as an au p...