How Billy Brown Saved the Queen

AvAlison Healy

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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Billy Brown is mystified to learn that the Queen does not understand a maths problem that is perfectly clear to him. It seems that nobody in the royal household, at court or anywhere in the Queen’s castles can explain the knotty problem to Her Majesty.And so Billy decides that the kind thing would be to go to the royal palace and explain it to her. He persuades his mother to drive him all the way to the palace, and he makes his way right into the Queen’s room and sits down on her bed to explain all about fractions and division. And he succeeds, where everyone before him has failed. The Queen is delighted.So delighted that she becomes firm friends with Billy and his mum and even comes to visit them in their humble abode …

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-04-05
Mått:129 x 198 x 10 mm
Vikt:130 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:112
Förlag:Little Island
Illustratör:Fintan Taite
ISBN:9781910411957

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Mer om författaren

Alison Healy has worked as a journalist with the Irish Times for almost 17 years, and with the Farmers Journal for eight years before that. She specialises in food and farming issues and is currently on a career break. This is her first children’s book and she is also ghost writing the autobiography of Anna May McHugh, managing director of the National Ploughing Championships. One of her short stories, `Grace’, was selected for the Stories for the Ear compilation produced by Kildare Arts Service last October. She was also shortlisted in Fish Publishing’s Flash Fiction Awards announced earlier this year.

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This delightful book reads like a mashup of Sue Townsend's hilarious The Queen and I with bits of Roddy Doyle's Rover Trilogy. And although it's lighthearted, it has an important message for kids who feel "different" and for those who are hopeless at sports. Generously sprinkled with gorgeous illustrations by Fintan Taite.