Isabel Abedi » Forbidden World (paperback) « 10+, January 2008 464 pages, 12.5 x 19.0 cm ISBN 978-3-7855-6300-7 paperback 8,95 € (D) Rights sold: French, 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 most famous buildings in the world. The originals in miniaturized form, of course. Gradually, he builds up a huge landscape in his cellar: the Colosseum from Rome, the Statue of Liberty from New York City, the Golestan Palace from Tehran and many buildings more become part of his collection.
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 of the West, when suddenly at night the buildings shrank. Now the children are the size of a fingernail... While they fight for their rescue, 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...