The Queen's Nose

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The Queen's Nose has also been broadcast in Germany, under the name Die Magische Münze (The Magic Coin). [6] Cast [ edit ] The fifty-pence coin, that Uncle Ginger apparently got from India, is magic; with a magic Queen's head, with her pointed nose, on one side of it. It can grant its owner seven wishes. Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-alpha-20201231-10-g1236 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9508 Ocr_module_version 0.0.12 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-WL-0000153 Openlibrary_edition The book is about a young girl called Harmony, who her family don't quite seem to understand. She is a 10 year old girl, rather tom-boyish, and completely different to her elder sister, Melody. Harmony starts wishing right away, and is soon the proud owner of some of the things she wants most in the world. But she discovers that you have to be careful what you wish for, as the Queen’s nose doesn’t always grant wishes in quite the way you might expect...

How the young girl will go about wishing for things is up to her. Her wishing will eventually end up with unexpected, and twisted, results for her and her family. Harmony believes that animals are more interesting than people, and so she pictures the people she meets as animals; her father is a sea lion, her mother a Pouter pigeon and her sister a Siamese cat.The characters have such lovely names - Harmony, Melody, Uncle Ginger, and all the people who ten-year-old Harmony names after different animals, based on their appearance and conduct. Ocr tesseract 4.1.1 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_module_version 0.0.5 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA19212 Openlibrary_edition

A few downsides to the book are: once Harmony receives her pets, not much attention is paid to them, after all of her longing; and her mother and older sister Melody are rather stereotypical - a fussy, old-fashioned housewife and an overly-feminine, shallow, self-absorbed and mean teenage girl respectively - but they do soften up and show more dimension towards the end of the novella. Harmony Parker is ten years old and loves animals. She longs for a pet of her very own, but her parents won’t allow it. All she can do is keep hoping, dreaming and wishing.But how could Uncle Ginger ever repay Harmony for using her final wish on him? Perhaps with the perfect gift of a... puppy!