Siobhan Dowd

The Ransom of Dond

Buch

Only the truth and a mother's kiss can set them free. This is a tale to be treasured, a haunting tale of love and fate and truth. Pam Smy's beautiful two-colour drawings announce her as a leading children's illustrator and the astonishing blend of words and pictures takes us all into that timeless world of story.

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-85756-090-2
EAN: 9780857560902
Produktnummer: 14868845
Verlag: Penguin Random House Children's UK
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Seitenangabe: 112 S.
Masse: H13.6 cm x B21.1 cm x D1.5 cm 292 g
Abbildungen: two colour illustrations throughout
Gewicht: 292
Sonstiges: Children / Juvenile

Über den Autor

Siobhan Dowd lived in Oxford with her husband, Geoff, before tragically dying from cancer in August 2007, aged 47. She was both an extraordinary writer and an extraordinary person.Siobhan's first novel, A Swift Pure Cry, won the Branford Boase Award and the Eilis Dillon Award and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and Booktrust Teenage Prize. Her second novel, The London Eye Mystery, won the 2007 NASEN & TES Special Educational Needs Children's Book Award. In March 2008, the book was shortlisted for the prestigious Children's Books Ireland Bisto Awards. Siobhan's third novel, Bog Child, was the first book to be posthumously awarded the Carnegie Medal in 2008.The award-winning novel A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness was based on an idea of Siobhan's. Her novella, The Ransom of Dond, was published in 2013, illustrated throughout by Pam Smy.