商品簡介
As the eighth book in The Adventures of Archibald and Jockabeb opens, almost six months have passed since the snowy Christmas Eve when the two brothers returned home from another astonishing adventure high above the Arctic Circle. The backdrop now shifts to the bustling pearl of the Asia, Hong Kong. Archibald travels there to live with the Chen family and attend a summer abroad program. At the end of the program, Jockabeb and Archibald’s girlfriend, Willow, and one of the Chen children head out on a mountain hike, they have no idea about the danger that awaits them. When a descendant of a mythical character from centuries past finally escapes imprisonment deep within one of the towering mountains surrounding Victoria harbor, another life and death struggle begins but this time without a blue feather for protection. Get ready for another fascinating journey into the unknown!
作者簡介
When Art Collins retired as a highly successful chairman and CEO of a Fortune 500 company, he didn’t write the book on leadership that many expected. Instead, he decided that penning children’s stories would be far more interesting. Borrowing two characters, Archibald and Jockabeb, from tales told by his father many years before, and drawing up his own rich imagination, Art introduces the two young brothers to an incredible cast of characters some human, some otherworldly in locations that range from the mysterious forest behind the boys’ house to the lush and exotic Amazon. Collins honed his stories by running them past his target audience; fourth-graders taught by his brother Geoffrey Collins, who allowed his classes to be used as a focus group over several years. Art currently divides his time between Chicago and the Vail Valley in Colorado.
