A House Called Awful End: Book One of the Eddie Dickens Trilogy - Hardcover

Ardagh, Philip

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0805068287 ISBN 13: 9780805068283

Verlag: Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, 2002

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The uproarious first installment in a new trilogy follows Eddie Dickens, whose parents catch a mysterious disease, as he is sent to stay with his Mad Uncle Jack and Even-Madder Aunt Maud at their house, Awful End, until his parents recover. 35,000 first printing.

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Philip Ardagh is over 6 feet 7 inches tall with a big bushy beard. Not only is he very large and very hairy, but he has also written around sixty children's books for all ages, though nothing quite like A House Called Awful End . . . until now. Currently living as a full-time writer with a wife and two cats in a seaside town somewhere in England, he has been--among other things--an advertising copywriter, a hospital cleaner, a (highly unqualified) librarian, and a reader for the blind.

David Roberts is so busy drawing pictures that no one is really sure what he looks like. We do know that he has illustrated several books for children and lives somewhere in England, but whether his home is near the sea or not is anybody's guess.

Philip Ardagh is over 6 feet 7 inches tall with a big bushy beard. Not only is he very large and very hairy, but he has also written around sixty children's books for all ages, though nothing quite like A House Called Awful End . . . until now. Currently living as a full-time writer with a wife and two cats in a seaside town somewhere in England, he has been--among other things--an advertising copywriter, a hospital cleaner, a (highly unqualified) librarian, and a reader for the blind.

David Roberts is so busy drawing pictures that no one is really sure what he looks like. We do know that he has illustrated several books for children and lives somewhere in England, but whether his home is near the sea or not is anybody's guess.

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“Edmund,” said Mr. Dickens, “you are to go with my uncle and live with him until your dear, sweet mother and I”—he paused and kissed Mrs. Dickens on the part of her face that was the least yellow and the least crinkly at the edges (a small section just behind her left ear)—“are well again. You must never wear anything green in his presence, you must always drink at least five glasses of lukewarm water a day, and you must always do as he says. Is that clear?”

“Yes, Father,” said Eddie

“And, Jonathan,” added his mother, for Jonathan was the pet name she called Eddie when she couldn’t remember his real one.

“Yes, Mother?”

“Do be careful to make sure that you’re not mistaken for a runaway orphan and taken to the orphanage, where you will then suffer cruelty, hardship, and misery.”

“Don’t worry, Mother. That’ll never happen,” said Eddie Dickens, dismissing the idea as ridiculous.

If only he’d listened.
—from A House Called Awful End

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Henry Holt Books for Young Readers
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0805068287
• ISBN 13: 9780805068283
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Zeichner: Roberts David
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 119
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