Clockwork

“...once you've wound up a clock, there's something frightful in the way it keeps on going at its own relentless pace....Some stories are like this. Once you've wound them up, nothing will stop them; they move on forward till they reach their destined end, and no matter how much the characters would like to change their fate, they can't. This is one of those stories.”

Karl hasn't finished the project required of him as an apprentice clockmaker. Fritz has started telling a story, but he doesn't know the end. Prince Florian is in need of fix for his mechanical heart that is slowly starting to wind to a stop.

In this clever tale, the stories of these three characters unexpectedly overlap and commingle in ways that are completely unexpected and yet perfectly combined.

A 1001 Children's Book You Must Read.

Fast read and great tale.