House with Chicken Legs Runs Away

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.

Marinka and her living friends, Benjamin and Jack the jackdaw, are pulled along on an engrossing adventure that does not shy away from big themes: courage in the face of slim odds, the existence of multiverses and how to trust one's inner voice.

• Chapters in this book include:- Prologue- The Bones Cause Trouble- Toads and Bees- The Land of Castles and Giants- A Party for the Dead- The Gate Explodes- The House Runs Away- Running Through the Night- The Giant Stone Maker- The Mortar and Pestle- The cabin in the Clearing- Marzanna's Garden- Marzanna- The Water of Life- The Attic- The Gate Carver's Island- The Fireplace- The Gate to the Past- A Twist from Each Realm- The Gate to the Stars- Moving On- Running Again- Running Out of Time- The Enchanted Tree- Endings - Beginnings