Marcus Sedgwick

Broschiertes Buch

Elf Girl and Raven Boy: Fright Forest

Book 1

Illustration: Williamson, Pete

Beschreibung

From the creators of the Blue Peter award-winning Funniest Book with Pictures RAVEN MYSTERIES team, the first in a new six book series for readers of 8+ about Raven Boy and Elf Girl's magical, humorous and creepy adventures as they battle to save the world.

Autor

Marcus Sedgwick was the winner of many prizes, most notably the 2014 Michael L. Printz Award for his novel Midwinterblood. Marcus also received two Printz Honors, for Revolver in 2011 and The Ghosts of Heaven in 2016, giving him the most citations to date for America's most prestigious book prize for writing for young adults. Other notable award winning books include Floodland, Marcus' first novel, which won the Branford-Boase Award in 2001; My Swordhand is Singing, which won the Booktrust Teenage Prize for 2007, and Lunatics and Luck, part of The Raven Mysteries series, which won a Blue Peter Book Award in 2011. His books have been shortlisted for over forty other awards, including the Carnegie Medal (seven times), the Edgar Allan Poe Award (twice) and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize (four times). He has been nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award three times, in 2016, 2017 and 2018. Marcus was Writer in Residence at Bath Spa University for three years, reviewed for The Guardian newspaper and taught creative writing at Arvon and Ty Newydd. He judged numerous books awards, including the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and the Costa Book Awards. www.marcussedgwick.com

Produktdetails

• Elf Girl and Raven Boy
• Verlag: Orion Children's Books / Orion Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Altersempfehlung: von 9 bis 11 Jahren
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 196g
• ISBN-13: 9781444004854
• ISBN-10: 1444004859
• Artikelnr.: 34758855

Rezensionen

Beautifully punctuated by Pete Williamson's black and white ink-flood illustrations. After surviving Fright Forest, I'm sure you'll want to follow these two into all sorts of trouble as the books take them out into bigger, scarier and ever more exciting worlds The List