THE PRINCESS AND CURDIE

In this sequel to The Princess and the Goblin Curdie has returned to his life as a miner and has dismissed the supernatural happenings of the past believing them to have been a dream. When Curdie callously wounds a pigeon his conscience leads him to Princess Irene's mystical great-great-grandmother for help. She has him plunge his hands into a pile of rose petals that burns like fire. Extraordinarily this grants him the power to see what kind of animal a person is at heart. She then sends him on a quest accompanied by a peculiar doglike creature named Lina who was once a human. However Curdie must resolve his own skepticism before he can use the powers granted to him to defeat the evil that is threatening the future of the kingdom.