That Thing

Avital Balwit

ISBN 10: 1838323538 / ISBN 13: 9781838323530

Verlag: Pop Up Projects CIC, GB, 2021

Beschreibung

Debut writer Avital Balwit's That Thing suggests that our indifference to other animals also reflects how we sometimes treat each other. Illustrator Alexis Deacon's watercolour washes and exquisite octopi animate this brilliant short story. That Thing was one of four winners of Pop Up's 10th Birthday Writing Competition. For young readers age 10 and up.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers LU-9781838323530

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: That Thing
• Verlag: Pop Up Projects CIC, GB
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1838323538
• ISBN-13: 9781838323530
• Einband: Hardback
• Zustand: New

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Inhaltsangabe

Debut writer Avital Balwit's That Thing suggests that our indifference to other animals also reflects how we sometimes treat each other. Illustrator Alexis Deacon’s watercolour washes and exquisite octopi animate this brilliant short story. That Thing was one of four winners of Pop Up's 10th Birthday Writing Competition. For young readers age 10 and up.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

A graduate of the University of Virginia, Avital Balwit was the winner of The Atlantic’s 2020 poetry contest, and a finalist in The New York Times and The Economist essay writing contests. She writes to imagine better, brighter futures, and to delve into the mysteries of human and animal minds. Avital was one of four young winners of Pop Up’s 10th Birthday Writing Competition in 2020; That Thing was chosen out of 100s of entries from 40 countries, and is Avital’s first published children’s book. Avital Balwit lives Oxford. Alexis Deacon is a writer and illustrator of books including Croc & Bird, Beegu, Jim’s Lion and the three-part graphic novel Geis. Time Magazine named his first book, Slow Loris, one of the 100 best children’s books of all time. He’s a two-times winner of The New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Books Award, winner of The Observer/Jonathan Cape/Comica Graphic Short Story Prize in 2014, and has twice been shortlisted for the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal. Alexis Deacon lives in Hastings.