Author: Donaldson, Margaret:
Title: Mindar.
Description: London, Methuen Children's Books, 1979. 1st Ed., H/B blue cloth bds with gold lettering, Fine, in unclipped d/w, Near Fine, one sm. scuff on spine and v. minor edgewear, contents fine with illustrations by Francis Scholes. A very nice copy of this Pied Piper Book. Mindar lives in the Middle East of 4000 years ago. While still young he undergoes, and passes, initiation tests to become a man, during which he acquires a pet lion cub and invents a giant bow. However he also makes a bitter enemy of the chief priest, Zubu. Mindar's fight to save his cub from death and his part in defending his country from attack by enemies with whom Zubu is in league, make an action-packed adventure story.

Keywords: fiction, children's, adventure, Middle East, initiation, young boy, story, tale.