Maphead - Softcover

Howarth Lesley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0744577713 ISBN 13: 9780744577716

Verlag: Walker Books Ltd, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

A dazzlingly original, touching and funny rites-of-passage novel by a multi award-winning author. Powers and his son Boothe, alias MapHead, are visitors from the Subtle World - a world that exists side by side with our own. Now twelve, at the Dawn of Power, MapHead has come to meet his human mother for the first time, making his home on a farm, in a tomato house. Big on Ancient Rome and its chariot races, the young traveller finds modern society bewildering. He can flash up a map of any place across his head, but the rhythms and idioms of human speech are quite alien to him. It is the language of the heart, though, about which he has most to learn if he is truly to find his power...

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Lesley Howarth's first book, The Flower King, was shortlisted for both the 1993 Whitbread Children's Novel Award and the Guardian Children's Fiction Award. It was followed by MapHead, which won the 1995 Guardian Children's Fiction Award, the WH Smith Mind-Boggling Books Award and was also Highly Commended for the Carnegie Medal that year. Weather Eye, her third novel, won the Smarties Book Prize (9 - 11 Category). Among her other books are The Pits (winner of the 1997 UK Reading Association Award) MapHead 2 and Mister Spaceman, as well as two stories for younger readers, Fort Biscuit and The Squint. Maphead draws on Lesley's own experience of working as a market gardener in tomato houses. She has three daughters and lives with her husband in Cornwall in a house that they built themselves.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Walker Books Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0744577713
• ISBN 13: 9780744577716
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 159
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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