Reviews of The King of the Copper Mountains

Amanda Craig, The Times 14th March 2008

“The best book of all for this age, however, is an old one, out of print for decades and just republished by Strident. Paul Biegel’s The King of the Copper Mountains (£7.99/£7.59) is about an ancient, dying king whose heart must be made to beat faster by stories. The animals trying to keep him alive while the Wonder Doctor searches for medicine to cure him. All tell him interlinked tales - some funny, some scary, all marvelous - which turn out to be connected to his own past…It is still one of the blazing jewels of children’s literature.”