Notes
A standalone novel.

The image opposite and the blurb below are from the first printing of the 2002 Aspect/Warner paperback edition, ISBN 0446610615. Cover illustration by Don Maitz.

Publisher’s Blurb – Lower Cover
Alan Dean Foster, the multiple-bestselling author of the Spellsinger series and the Journeys of the Catechist trilogy, presents a delightful new fantasy of the unbounded magic and constant adventure that await somewhere...

INSIDE THE RAINBOW!

Evil, sadistic (and badly socialized) goblins have destroyed the pastoral kingdom of the Gowdlands. Blasting the land's greatest wizard into cinders, they cursed it with a dark hex no mortal can break. But the mage’s death unleashes a wondrous spell that transforms his pets—three cats, a dog, a snake, and a songbird—into champions with human forms, animal cunning, and magical talents. They’ll need all their new abilities to save the Gowdlands. Because together the six must cross the Kingdoms of Light, realms where poly-chrome perils and multihued menaces await. For only they have the power to fight the coming of a black force that will annihilate all light... and all life.

"One of the most consistently inventive and fertile writers of science fiction and fantasy."
—The Times (London)

"Alan Dean Foster is a master storyteller."
—SF Site