About the book: a year / ...in that tiny kingdom in which they lived, and which was all located in one city, squeezed between high, high mountains and deep, deep sea, there was one old, old law. The law stated that the eldest child in the family should never, ever, ever leave the city. Otherwise, the law said, a monster would rise from the sea, burn the city to the ground, and the water that the monster would raise, waving its tail, would wash away the ashes from the face of the earth. And no one will be saved.