The Cozies: The Legend of Operation
Moonlight by
T. L. Fisher 196 pages
This
delightful little story is narrated by quite a mixture of a creature with the
head of an English lop rabbit. At five inches tall, Thursby, is elegantly
dressed in “a green cutaway coat, a blue waistcoat, a white shirt and neckcloth,
and charcoal-gray trousers.”
As
the tale opens, Thursby welcomes an unseen audience in a lecture hall. He is there
to tell about a Cozies grand adventure that happened a long time ago. Cozies
are figments of the imagination, specifically nursery figments.
The
Cozies in the nursery watch over the baby Bingo. Thursby is joined by quite an
intersting cast: Musetta, the actress; Gubbins, who ‘resembles what might
happen if two pocket watches collide and the bits and pieces came down in the shape
of” a person about as tall as Thursby, Rumple, who looks like a giant
squishable toy with a translucent baby-blue body, and the Twins, “round-faced
girls no bigger than a man’s thumb each with pretty but ineffectual little
wings.”
Life
goes along as normal until one day a new nanny arrives. She’s not nearly as
affable as the previous nanny, and the Cozies start to worry when she starts to
whisper with a big lout, one who comes in through the second-story window.
Then
the nanny and the lout kidnap Bingo and it’s up to the Cozies to find him and
get him back home, safe and sound. Their journey is whimsical and imaginative,
a fun adventure for reader of all ages.
Its
story-within-a story is charming and delightful. I hope T. L. writes more
adventures with these characters. The Cozies:
The Legend of Operation Moonlight receives 5 out of 5 stars in Julie’s
world.
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