Jackdaw Summer
(Sprache: Englisch)
Max and Liam are living a carefree summer until they find a baby, wrapped in a blanket, with a scribbled note pinned to it: PLESE LOOK AFTER HER RITE. THIS IS A CHILDE OF GOD. And so begins Jackdaw Summer. A summer when friendships are tested. A summer when...
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Max and Liam are living a carefree summer until they find a baby, wrapped in a blanket, with a scribbled note pinned to it: PLESE LOOK AFTER HER RITE. THIS IS A CHILDE OF GOD. And so begins Jackdaw Summer. A summer when friendships are tested. A summer when lines between good and bad are blurred. A summer that Liam will never forget ... David Almond has won the Whitbread Children's Book Award and the Carnegie Medal.
Autoren-Porträt von David Almond
One of the best children's writers today, David Almond has won multiple prizes including the Whitbread, the Smarties Award and the Carnegie Medal.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: David Almond
- 2009, Maße: 12,9 x 2,2 cm, Taschenbuch, Englisch
- Verlag: HODDER CHILDREN'S
- ISBN-10: 0340881992
- ISBN-13: 9780340881996
Sprache:
Englisch
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'a book of startling quality and tremendous beauty' -- The Bookbag 'Another brilliant novel from a master storyteller.' -- Carousel Unsettling but, as ever, beautifully written. -- Daily Mail '... exceptional, delicate writing ... make a moving and thoughtful story told with exceptional elegance.' -- Julia Eccleshare 'exquisite prose which sparkles off the page' -- Writeaway BACKLIST REVIEWS: 'Almond manages to make a work of art out of the simplest words.' -- Amanda Craig, The Times 'a master novelist' -- Independent 'There really is nobody quite like Almond writing in children's or adults' fiction today.' -- The Times 'a writer of subtle, page-turning and daring exactness.' -- Times Educational Supplement 'David Almond's novels all have a unique, mystical thread running through them. He weaves a story web, spiderlike, that holds the reader spellbound while he spins new though-threads on universal themes.' -- Carousel 'David Almond is a fine writer, one of the very finest we have. He is simply incapable of writing a bad sentence.' -- Michael Morpurgo 'One of these days, someone is going to notice that David Almond has been kidnapped by children's publishing and demand him back for adults. But until then, we must rejoice in every new offering of his.' -- Sunday Telegraph "superb coming-of-age novel from one of our master story-tellers." -- Bookseller 20090220 "This is a novel of power and beauty." -- The Daily Telegraph 20081206 'Higgins writes in a dead-on emulation of a teenage girls voice, her prose salted with pithy observations.' -- Financial Times 20081206 Almond skilfully handles the issues and writes beautifully in this contemporary masterpiece. -- Independent 20090802
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