LUKE PEARSON HILDA AND THE MOUNTAIN KING FLYING EYE BOOKS LONDON LOS ANGELES
PREVIOUSLY HAVING PUSHED HER LUCK ONE TOO MANY TIMES IN THE NAME OF ADVENTURE HILDA FOUND HERSELF GROUNDED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HER LIFE HER ATTEMPT TO SNEAK OUT WITH THE HELP OF HER NISSE FRIEND TONTU WENT TERRIBLY AWRY AND HILDA MUM AND TWIG FOUND THEMSELVES MAGICALLY TRANSPORTED TO THE COLD AND CAVERNOUS WORLD OF THE STONE FOREST THE LAND BENEATH THE MOUNTAIN AND HOME OF THE TROLLS WITH THE MOST FEARSOME OF TROLLS AROUND EVERY CORNER THEY DESPERATELY TRIED TO FIND THEIR WAY HOME DOING THEIR VERY BEST TO NOT GET EATEN A GENTLE MOTHER TROLL WITH HER LITTLE TROLL BABY TOOK PITY ON THEM AND BROUGHT THEM TO HER CAVE
THEY SPENT THE NIGHT IN THE GENEROUS TROLL'S HOME AND IN THE MORNING SHE KINDLY SHOWED THEM THE WAY OUT OF THE MOUNTAIN WHICH PROVED TO BE A MORE CHALLENGING PATH THAN EXPECTED BA BA TONTU WHO HAD BEEN SEARCHING FOR THEM SINCE THEY VANISHED THANKFULLY ARRIVED JUST IN TIME TO FLY THEM AWAY TO SAFETY FINALLY HOME AFTER THEIR ORDEAL HILDA AND HER MUM SETTLED DOWN FOR A WELL DESERVED SLEEP IN THEIR OWN BEDS HILDA SWORE HER DAYS OF SNEAKING OUT WERE Z OVER THE NEXT MORNING HILDA'S MUM WAS SURPRISED TO FIND HER DAUGHTER WAS NOT IN HER BED INSTEAD IN HER PLACE THERE WAS AN ODD LOOKING CHILD THAT SHE DIDN'T IMMEDIATELY RECOGNISE MEANWHILE BACK IN THE MOTHER TROLL'S CAVE DEEP IN THE MOUNTAIN THERE AWOKE A STRANGE BLUE HAIRED LITTLE TROLL CHILD BA BA
