The Surprise
A tale of standing out, embracing differences, and ultimately belonging-from one of the literary world's foremost minds, Zadie Smith, and novelist and poet, Nick Laird!Meet Maud: a guinea pig who inexplicably wears a judo suit-and not everyone understands or approves. When Maud is thrown into a new and confusing situation, it takes brave decisions and serendipitous encounters for her to find her place and embrace her individuality.Maud is an endearing story about the quiet power of being different by two veteran writers, and introduces an exciting debut illustrator. Together they have created a picture book that adults and children alike will…
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Weitere Autoren: Laird, Nick / Fox, Magenta (Illustr.)
- ISBN: 978-0-593-52597-5
- EAN: 9780593525975
- Produktnummer: 37812551
- Verlag: Viking Books for Young Readers
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
- Seitenangabe: 32 S.
- Masse: H28.2 cm x B21.3 cm x D1.8 cm 408 g
- Gewicht: 408
- Sonstiges: Ab 3 - 7 J.
Über den Autor
Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW, and Swing Time, as well as three collections of essays, Changing My Mind, Feel Free, and Intimations, and a collection of short stories, Grand Union. Zadie was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2002, and was listed as one of Granta's 20 Best Young British Novelists in 2003 and again in 2013. White Teeth won multiple literary awards including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian First Book Award. On Beauty was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Orange Prize for Fiction, and NW was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. Zadie Smith is currently a tenured professor of fiction at New York University and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.Nick Laird is the recipient of many prizes for his poetry and fiction, including the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the Ireland Chair of Poetry Award, the Betty Trask Prize, a Somerset Maugham award, and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. He is on faculty at New York University and Professor of Creative Writing at the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's University in Belfast. His latest collection Feel Free was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Award and the Derek Walcott Prize.Author Residence: New York, New YorkMagenta Fox was born in southwest London in 1994. She studied English at the University of Exeter and since moving back to London in 2015, has been working as a children's book designer. These days she works freelance-illustrating, writing, and designing children's books from her flat in south London.Illustrator Residence: London, UK
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