Jenny Nimmo

Charlie Bone and the Blue Boa

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Classic magic and mystery from one of Britainà â â s best-loved authors of fantasy adventure. Perfect for fans of Harry Potter, Eva Ibbotson, Cornelia Funkeà â â sà  Inkheartà  and Shane Hegartyà â â sà  Darkmouth. An Academy for magic and special talents. A destiny unfulfilled. A secret legacy.

Produktdetails

• Charlie Bone
• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 212g
• ISBN-13: 9781405280945
• ISBN-10: 1405280948
• Artikelnr.: 44961325

Autorenporträt

Jenny Nimmo is the acclaimed author of the Charlie Bone series. She has won several significant awards for her children¿s fiction, including the Nestle Smarties Book Prize and the Tir na n-Og Welsh Arts Council award for The Snow Spider. She lives in Wales with her husband, David. For as long as she can remember, Jenny has loved books. She was six when she went to boarding school and reading was a wonderful escape, it allowed her to believe that she was somewhere else. She begn to write her own stories when she was ten. She cannot help using magic in her work because myths legends and fairy-tales were her favourite reading as a child, and they have remained at the back of her mind ever since. In 1986 her book `The Snow Spider¿ won the Smarties Grand Prix and, in 1987, was awarded the Tir na n¿Og by the Welsh Arts Council. `The Rinaldi Ring¿ was chosen as Guardian Book of the Week, and was shortlisted for the Carnegie medal, for which she received a commendation.Five of Jenny¿s eight books about Charlie Bone in `The Children of the Red King¿ series were on the New York Times bestseller list, and she has now completed `The Secret Kingdom Trilogy¿ a prequel to the Charlie Bone Books..