Tollins: Explosive Tales for Children - Rilegato

Iggulden, Conn

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ISBN 10: 006173098X ISBN 13: 9780061730986

Casa editrice: Harpercollins Childrens Books, 2009

Riassunto

Life for the Tollins in idyllic Chorleywood is turned upside-down when humans build a fireworks factory and start using Tollins as industrial supplies, which leaves Sparkler, the renegade Tollin, to save his people from becoming an ingredient, face the Purple Death and survive a threat from the Dorset countryside, in three uproarious escapades. 150,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

“A deliciously subversive vein runs through this story collection-not surprising coming from the coauthor of The Dangerous Book for Boys...Iggulden’s flair for the ironic and absurd, which recalls Lemony Snicket, should tickle both kids and adults.” (Publishers Weekly (starred review))

L'autore:

Despite finding time to write historical novels and The Dangerous Book for Boys, Conn Iggulden is in some ways better known as a trainer of Tollins. His Tollin troupe, Small and Mighty, are famous in Tasmania, where they often play to packed houses. Tragically, he lost his two best-known performers earlier this year. "The thing about transporting Tollins in shoe boxes," he says, "the really important thing, is to remember to put the airholes in."

Lizzy Duncan, with her trademark blue glasses, was a founding member of the Tollins in Art program, where inner-city schoolchildren are taken to the countryside by bus and encouraged to paint and observe Tollins in their natural habitats. Tollins: Explosive Tales for Children was her first illustrated book.

Lizzy's abstract paintings of Tollins are much sought after whenever they appear at Sotheby's auction house, and she is very active in promoting Tollin rights and registering them as a protected wetland species—or as a dryland species, if the weather's been good.

Conn and Lizzy's first book together, Tollins: Explosive Tales for Children, was published in 2009 to great critical acclaim—and has ensured that no one will ever mistake a Tollin for a fairy again.

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• Editore: Harpercollins Childrens Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 006173098X
• ISBN 13: 9780061730986
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 172
• Disegnatore: Duncan Lizzy