The Twelve and the Genii, or The Return of the Twelves in the US, is a low fantasy novel for children by Pauline Clarke, first published by Faber in 1962 with illustrations by Cecil Leslie. It features a young boy and "what might have happened if the lost toy soldiers that once belonged to the Brontë children had ever been found again".[2]
Clarke and The Twelve won the annual Carnegie Medal recognising the year's best children's book by a British citizen.[3] Six years later she won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis for the German-language edition, Die Zwölf vom Dachboden (Berlin: Dressler, 1968).[4]
Coward–McCann published the first US edition in 1964, under new title The Return of the Twelves with new illustrations by Bernarda Bryson.[1]
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"The Twelve and the genii" (first edition). Library of Congress Catalog Record. "The Return of the twelve" (first US edition). LCC record. Retrieved 2012-09-17.
^"PAULINE CLARKE The Twelve and the Genii" (bookseller description, evidently quoting the artefact). Marion Pitman Books. Retrieved 17 September 2012.
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"Die Zwölf vom Dachboden" (German edition). LCC record. Retrieved 17 September 2012.
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