The Dial and the Seed

By: Whittington, J. M.

In the spring of 1940, with the world holding its breath across the Channel, four children are sent from Birmingham to their grandparents' cottage - Thomas, who is sixteen and carries more than a boy should; Katie, who notices what others miss; Samuel, who wants to know the reason for everything; and Audrey, the youngest, who has begun to hear something the others cannot.

It is Audrey who hears it first. A sound, faint and far off, coming from the tall grandfather clock in the library - a clock that has kept a strange sort of time, and has been waiting, it seems, a very long while.

On the other side of it lies a country that was sung into being, and whose song has begun to fail. Something there has been waiting a long while too - and it is said that what has been waiting is a King. Four children who can hear the song may be nearer to the heart of things than they know, with much still to learn about how to listen.

A tale for readers of all ages - for children, and for everyone who still knows how to read as one.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HHHWHDYW
• ISBN13: 9798994682111
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Whittington House
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7