Gentle Brother Edik finds the girl, Beatryce, curled in a stall, wracked with fever, coated in dirt and blood, and holding fast to the ear of Answelica the goat.
In a time of war, a mysterious child appears at the monastery of the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing. We shall all, in the end, find our way home. We shall all, in the end, be led to where we belong. Brother Edick, Answelica, and Jack Dory journey with her because they have become very fond of her…and…Beatryce promises Jack that she will teach him to write.From two-time Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo and two-time Caldecott Medalist Sophie Blackall comes a fantastical meditation on fate, love, and the power of words to spell the world. Rather than sending a monk, the monks send Beatryce. Although girls are not permitted to write in this kingdom, Beatrice can.
He is sent to seek a monk who can write in order to write a confession for a man before he dies. Jack Dory, an orphan, is sent to the Chronicles of Sorrow. All the monks with the exception of Brother Edick want her gone so that no harm will come to them. The king and his men know what the prediction is and harm will come to Beatryce if they find her and, they are indeed hunting for her. However, there is a prophecy about her in the monks’ Chronicles of Sorrowing. The only thing that Beatryce knows about herself is her name. Prophecy means things to come, a prediction for the future … sometimes magical, sometimes common sense.Īuthor, Kate DiCamillo, weaves together unusual main characters in The Beatryce Prophecy: a goat with sharp teeth and a hard head named Answelica that is feared above all else by the monks of the Chronicles of Sorrowing (the monks write down sad things and predictions in journals), a little girl found by Brother Edick in the monks’ barn one cold morning holding Answelica’s ear while sleeping, a superhero boy… sort of … named Jack Dory, and of course a king…and an evil king at that.
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