Journey to the River Sea - Brossura

Ibbotson, Eva

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0142501840 ISBN 13: 9780142501849

Casa editrice: Puffin, 2003

Riassunto

Moving to South America to live with her English adoptive family on a rubber plantation, Maia and her governess feel excited about the unusual things they will see and experience, despite their new family's wish to keep matters very proper in the middle of the jungle. Reprint.

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Recensione:

Adventure lovers will devour this one and wish that it would continue. (School Library Journal, starred review)

L'autore:

Eva Ibbotson, born Maria Charlotte Michelle Wiesner, was an Austrian-born British novelist, known for her children's books. Some of her novels for adults have been successfully reissued for the young adult market in recent years. For the historical novel Journey to the River Sea, she won the Smarties Prize in category 9-11 years, garnered unusual commendation as runner up for the Guardian Prize, and made the Carnegie, Whitbread, and Blue Peter shortlists. She was a finalist for the 2010 Guardian Prize at the time of her death. Her last book, The Abominables, was one of eight books on the longlist for the same award in 2012.

From the author:
Journey to the River Sea was written quite quickly but it spent years and years inside my head. It started with my hearing about this fabled opera house a thousand miles from the mouth of the Amazon and I thought it was one of the strangest things I had ever heard - I meant to go there and see for myself but then I realised it would mean going back into the past because everything is quite different there now. So I went on reading and dreaming and researching and then one day, I picked up my pen to start a new book about witches and ghosts and found I had started to write an adventure storyset in the jungle.

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• Editore: Puffin
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0142501840
• ISBN 13: 9780142501849
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 304
• Disegnatore: Hawkes Kevin