Other editions of book The Box of Delights

The second and best-loved of two classic titles in children's literature. Returning home from school for the Christmas holidays, young Kay Harker meets the mysterious Punch and Judy Man, Cole Hawlings, who asks him to protect a magical box. The box is a means of travelling into the past and Kay's old adversary, the villainous magician Abner Brown, will stop at nothing to possess it. With mystery and mayhem all around him, Kay must begin a new and more perilous quest to return the box to its rightful owner.