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Sophie Anderson - House with Chicken Legs, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

House with Chicken Legs

Av Sophie Anderson

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A breathtaking reimagining of the Russian fairy tale of Baba Yaga, The House with Chicken Legs is the award-winning, spellbinding story of one girl's adventure to find her destiny. Shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Awards Shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal Shortlisted for Children's Fiction Book of the Year at the British Book Awards Shortlisted for the Branford Boase AwardMarinka dreams of a normal life, where her house stays in one place long enough for her to make friends. But her house has chicken legs and moves on without warning.For Marinka's grandmother is Baba Yaga, who guides spirits between this world and the next. Marinka longs to change her destiny and sets out to break free from her grandmother's footsteps, but her house has other ideas..."Enticing, a little bit dangerous, and thrumming with possibilities." Kiran Millwood Hargrave"A magical tale... a captivating and original retelling of a traditional story straight out of folklore. Beautiful escapism." Sunday Express
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2018-05-03
  • Mått: 130 x 196 x 23 mm
  • Vikt: 292 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 352
  • Förlag: Usborne Publishing Ltd
  • Illustratör: Elisa Paganelli
  • Medarbetare: Melissa Castrillon
  • ISBN: 9781474940665
  • Utmärkelser: Short-listed for The CILIP Carnegie Medal 2019
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Sophie Anderson (Author) Sophie Anderson was born in Swansea, and now lives in the Lake District with her family. Her writing is most often inspired by folk and fairy stories, especially the Slavic tales her Prussian grandmother told her when she was young.Across her bestselling novels, Sophie has won the Independent Bookshop Book of the Year Award and the Wales Book of the Year Award, and been shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal twice, the Waterstones Children's Book Prize, the Blue Peter Book Award, the British Book Awards' Children's Fiction Book of the Year, the Andersen Prize, and the Branford Boase Award.Sophie's books have been translated into over twenty-five languages, and The House with Chicken Legs has been adapted for stage by Les Enfants Terribles.

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