Booktalking Colorado - Full Booktalk Record

Booktalking Colorado Full Record:

	Title:	The Purple Emperor
	Author:	Brennan, Herbie
	Date Published:	2004
	Genre:	Fantasy
	Grade Level:	6 - 12
	Booktalker:	Sam Marsh

Booktalk:
Henry had helped save the faerie realm from the dark faeries and had returned to the Analog (i.e. our) world and his family. But, then he finds that Mr. Fogarty, who got him involved in the faerie realm to begin with, is leaving the Analog world to live in the Faerie Realm for good. Further, Henry’s friend Pyrgus is about to be crowned as the new Purple Emperor and Henry is being asked to attend as the “Male Companion” of the new Emperor. Mr. Fogarty even has a lethe cone for Henry to use on his mother and sister to make them forget he’ll be gone. But, then the evil Lord Hairstreak shows up in the palace with the previous Purple Emperor, Pyrgus’ father whom he has resurrected from the dead, claiming that the Emperor was simply sick and now recovered. He has a document signed by Pyrgus’ father that states his will is to resign as Emperor and have Comma, Pyrgus’ younger brother, appointed as Emperor elect with Lord Hairstreak appointed as his guardian until Comma is of age. Comma has been ordered by Hairstreak to kill Pyrgus and Blue, their outspoken sister. But, Comma is not quite as malleable as Hairstreak believes and instead exiles them from the Faerie Realm instead. Henry, meanwhile, uses the lethe cones to cause his mother and sister to forget about him so he can attend the coronation he still believes is going to happen. But, when he try’s to find the portal that Fogarty has left to transport him to the Faerie Realm, he finds it missing. Probably taken by his sister who has now forgotten all about him, and in all likelihood, about her theft. All that is left is for Henry to try to build his own transporter. He does translate to the Faerie Realm, but has left out a crucial component and finds himself about the size of a spider, and with wings. Sam Marsh March, 2005 for Spring, 2005