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''The Twelve and the Genii'', or ''The Return of the Twelves'' in the U.S., 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".〔("PAULINE CLARKE The Twelve and the Genii" ) (bookseller description, evidently quoting the artefact). Marion Pitman Books. Retrieved 2012-09-17.〕 Clarke and ''The Twelve'' won the annual Carnegie Medal recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject.〔 Six years later she won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis for the German-language edition, ''Die Zwölf vom Dachboden'' (Berlin: Dressler, 1968).〔 ("Die Zwölf vom Dachboden" ) (German edition). LCC record. Retrieved 2012-09-17.〕 Coward–McCann published the first U.S. edition in 1964, under new title ''The Return of the Twelves'' with new illustrations by Bernarda Bryson.〔 ==Origin== "The Twelve" of the title are wooden soldiers that may come to life. "The Genii" are their protective spirits, from 1826 four Brontë children, now joined by Max and his sister Jane Morley. The twelve toy soldiers once belonged to Branwell Brontë and his sisters. They were given to Branwell, the fourth of six children and only boy, by their father in 1826. The two eldest girls had died the preceding year and the four surviving children were 6 to 10 years old; they made the soldiers the centre of their imaginative life and their childhood literary efforts. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Twelve and the Genii」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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