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The Search for Delicious

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The Search for Delicious	comment	The Search for Delicious is a 1969 children's fantasy novel by Natalie Babbitt.In a small kingdom ringed by mountains, the Prime Minister attempts to write a dictionary. The problem is, no one can agree on the meaning of the word "delicious." Fights break out over the issue, so twelve-year-old Gaylen is sent to poll everyone in the kingdom about the most delicious foods. He is helped in his quest by dwarfs, sentient winds, a woldweller, and a mermaid named Ardis. Meanwhile, the queen's evil brother Hemlock travels the countryside, sowing discord.
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The Search for Delicious / int_31d6fd00	type	Legend Fades to Myth
The Search for Delicious / int_31d6fd00	comment	Legend Fades to Myth: Most people think that mermaids, woldwellers, and dwarfs exist only in tales. The dwarfs have all gone underground and rarely come out, the woldwellers got sick of answering people's stupid questions and stopped talking to them, and hardly anyone has been to Ardis's mountain lake in centuries.
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The Search for Delicious / int_366dfa01	type	Silly Reason for War
The Search for Delicious / int_366dfa01	comment	Silly Reason for War: With Hemlock's encouragement, the people of the kingdom divide themselves into two factions, the Squashies and the Crisps, based on their food preferences. Within days the country is on the verge of civil war.
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The Search for Delicious / int_37c95f05	type	Asleep for Days
The Search for Delicious / int_37c95f05	comment	Asleep for Days: Gaylen eats dinner in a cave with three dwarfs. The smoke from one dwarf's pipe and the music from another one's flute put him to sleep. He wakes up three days later, by which point Hemlock has almost completed his plan to take over the kingdom.
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The Search for Delicious / int_54367e5d	type	Mathematician's Answer
The Search for Delicious / int_54367e5d	comment	Mathematician's Answer: Gaylen asks a shepherd boy for information, but thanks to Hemlock's lies he thinks Gaylen is up to no good, so he gives answers that are as literal and unhelpful as possible. Gaylen asks him what weekday it is, if he saw a man riding a large gray horse wearing a cape, and how long it would take Gaylen to ride to the next town. The boy answers that it's a strong day, not a weak day, that he would remember seeing a horse wearing a cape, and that it will take Gaylen a very long time to get to the next town, since his horse is currently standing still.
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The Search for Delicious / int_566f3ddd	type	Nature Spirit
The Search for Delicious / int_566f3ddd	comment	Nature Spirit: The woldweller lives in a tree in the exact center of the forest. His job is to look after the woods. He is angered by clumsy humans who break branches while they walk. The winds take the form of a small storm with disembodied voices speaking together. They control all the weather in the kingdom.
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The Search for Delicious / int_5cd8680b	type	Doorstop Baby
The Search for Delicious / int_5cd8680b	comment	Doorstop Baby: Gaylen was left in a basket at the castle gate. The Prime Minister took him in and raised him as his son.
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The Search for Delicious / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
The Search for Delicious / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Gaylen's full first name is Vaungaylen, which means "little healer." The Prime Minister wanted a child so badly that it kept him up at night, which caused him to get sick. After he adopted Gaylen, he slept soundly and was much healthier. Other examples include Prime Minister DeCree, Mayor Veto, and the villainous Hemlock.
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The Search for Delicious / int_7785f549	type	Lost Toy Grievance
The Search for Delicious / int_7785f549	comment	Lost Toy Grievance: The dwarfs made Ardis a doll made of linked stones with a fern for hair. Ardis loved the doll. One day she left it in the now-submerged house built over the spring that feeds the underground lake. Then a human man found the whistle Ardis had hung from a rock by the water's edge. The man blew the whistle, which caused the house's door to close, trapping the doll inside. Then he left. There is no other way of opening the door. Ardis has been grieving for her doll for 900 years. Every night she cries for hours. After Gaylen realizes that his "Good Luck Charm" is really her whistle, he gives it to her in exchange for destroying Hemlock's dam.
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The Search for Delicious / int_77e73dc7	type	Food as Bribe
The Search for Delicious / int_77e73dc7	comment	Food as Bribe: The non-human races are all totally uninterested in human problems and will only provide help or information if a human offers them something in return. The woldweller will answer questions in exchange for rabbits, while dwarfs accept apples as payment.
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The Search for Delicious / int_796fa10c	type	The Ageless
The Search for Delicious / int_796fa10c	comment	The Ageless: All fantastical beings are immortal. Ardis looks and acts like a young girl despite being over 900 years old. The dwarfs and the woldweller also appear to be ageless, even though they look like adults.
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The Search for Delicious / int_7e7573a0	type	Spontaneous Generation
The Search for Delicious / int_7e7573a0	comment	Spontaneous Generation: This appears to be how fantastical creatures appear — if there are enough trees, rocks, or water in one place, then woldwellers, dwarfs, and mermaids will appear. A possible exception is winds, because it's mentioned that they hatch their young in a hollow in a mountain.
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The Search for Delicious / int_90fbce80	type	Everyone Hates Fruit Cakes
The Search for Delicious / int_90fbce80	comment	Everyone Hates Fruit Cakes: Gaylen questions a farmer couple about their favorite foods. The wife tells him the question is easy because her fruitcake is the best food in the kingdom. But because all respondents are under a royal decree to be honest, her husband says that he absolutely hates fruitcake and has been suffering in silence for thirty years.
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The Search for Delicious / int_9d73f176	type	Wandering Minstrel
The Search for Delicious / int_9d73f176	comment	Wandering Minstrel: Gaylen meets a minstrel named Canto who sings him a song about Ardis's sorrow and gives him a Good Luck Charm: a stone key that's been in Canto's family for generations.
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The Search for Delicious / int_b0cac376	type	The Usurper
The Search for Delicious / int_b0cac376	comment	The Usurper: Hemlock's ultimate goal is getting the people to rise up and kill the King so Hemlock can take over the kingdom.
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The Search for Delicious / int_f32dadad	type	Instant Messenger Pigeon
The Search for Delicious / int_f32dadad	comment	Instant Messenger Pigeon: During Gaylen's quest, he and the Prime Minister communicate by tying messages to the Prime Minister's cockatoo's leg. The cockatoo can always find Gaylen, no matter where he is.
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The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

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The Search for Delicious	hasFeature	Asleep for Days / int_a51d38c
The Search for Delicious	hasFeature	Children's Literature / int_a51d38c
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The Search for Delicious	hasFeature	Mermaid Media / int_a51d38c
The Search for Delicious	hasFeature	Nature Spirit / int_a51d38c
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