The Boyhood of Burglar Bill
$21.02
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
14 April 2008
Summary
Allan Ahlberg’s funny and moving semi-autobiographical look back at a 1950s childhood is the second in a series which began with My Brother’s Ghost. Coronation Year, 1953, and in Oldbury a Coronation football competition is organized. The boys from the bottom pitch get a team up, but there’s no chance they’ll win, of course. They’re just the odds and sods - one of them is even a girl - but they’re all football crazy and ready and eager to beat off the opposition. A funny and moving story of f…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141321424 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141321423 |
| Author: | Allan Ahlberg |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Children's UK |
| Imprint: | Puffin |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 14 April 2008 |
| Weight: | 150g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 13mm |
| Audience Age: | 7-10 |
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‘An exceptional piece of writing … comic, poignant and true. Anyone will be enriched by reading it’
An exceptional piece of writing … comic, poignant and true. Anyone will be enriched by reading it Sunday Times Affectionately downbeat … this artfully informal story has something for everyone – Nicholas Tucker Independent This is simply great writing, for boys or anyone else – Brandon Robshaw Independent
About The Author
Allan Ahlberg
Allan Ahlberg, former teacher, postman, plumber’s mate and gravedigger, is in the super-league of children’s writers. He has published over a hundred children’s books and is the author of the prize-winning Each Peach Pear Plum and The Jolly Postman. He has also written prize-winning fiction and poems for older readers. Allan lives in Bath.
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