Cantitate/Preț
Produs

Go Saddle The Sea

Autor Joan Aiken
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 mai 2013
Despised by his Spanish relatives and ignored by his distant grandfather, twelve-year-old orphan Felix Brooke is lonely and unhappy. So when he's given a parcel with a blood-stained letter from his dead father, it inspires him to track down his long-lost English family.
Citește tot Restrânge

Preț: 4137 lei

Preț vechi: 5643 lei
-27%

Puncte Express: 62

Carte disponibilă

Livrare economică 22 mai-02 iunie
Livrare express 02-08 mai pentru 3807 lei


Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781849418270
ISBN-10: 1849418276
Pagini: 416
Dimensiuni: 128 x 198 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Editura: Penguin Random House Children's UK

Recenzii

"Joan Aiken's Felix trilogy is definitely the kind of reading material you can never have enough of. It's got everything; adventure of almost every kind you could dream of, friendship, romance, history, travel ... To me these books are timeless, and every generation needs them." Bookwitch

Notă biografică

Joan Aiken was born in Sussex in 1924. She was the daughter of the American poet, Conrad Aiken; her sister, Jane Aiken Hodge, is also a novelist. Before joining the 'family business' herself, Joan had a variety of jobs, including working for the BBC, the United Nations Information Centre and then as features editor for a short story magazine. Her first children's novel, The Kingdom of the Cave, was published in 1960. Joan Aiken wrote over a hundred books for young readers and adults and is recognized as one of the classic authors of the twentieth century. Amanda Craig, writing in The Times, said, 'She was a consummate story-teller, one that each generation discovers anew.' Her best-known books are those in the James III saga, of which The Wolves of Willoughby Chase was the first title, published in l962 and awarded the Lewis Carroll prize. Both that and Black Hearts in Battersea have been filmed. Her books are internationally acclaimed and she received the Edgar Allan Poe Award in the United States as well as the Guardian Award for Fiction in this country for The Whispering Mountain. Joan Aiken was decorated with an MBE for her services to children's books. She died in 2004.