$32.99
- Hardcover
108 pages
- Release Date
15 November 2009
Summary
A beautiful new edition of Joan Aiken’s captivating collection of much-loved modern fairytales, now reissued with Jan Pienkowski’s original and iconic silhouette illustrations.
“This is how it all began…” From ‘A Necklace of Raindrops’ to ‘The Patchwork Quilt’, here are eight classic stories to treasure and enjoy. Beginning and ending with a birthday, this spell-binding collection conjures up a world filled with magic, where wishes can come true. A necklace of raindrops that keeps its…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780224083805 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0224083805 |
| Author: | Joan Aiken, Jan Pienkowski |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Children's UK |
| Imprint: | Jonathan Cape |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 108 |
| Release Date: | 15 November 2009 |
| Weight: | 430g |
| Dimensions: | 227mm x 160mm x 16mm |
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Critics Review
Magic has never been more elegantly shaped than in these effervescent short stories … The flight of imagination is delicately captured in Jan Pienkowski’s accompanying silhouettes
Magic has never been more elegantly shaped than in these effervescent short stories … The flight of imagination is delicately captured in Jan Pienkowski’s accompanying silhouettes – Julia Eccleshare * Guardian *
A Necklace of Raindrops is something that should be on every child’s shelf – Amanda Craig * The Times *
A little dark and often surreal – Lydia Fulton * Financial Times *
Jan Pienkowski, whose magical silhouttes were never so finely matched as with the wonderful Joan Aiken’s fine short stories … A treat * Evening Standard *
About The Author
Joan Aiken
Joan Aiken was born in Sussex in 1924. She was the daughter of the American poet, Conrad Aiken; her sister, Jane Aiken Hodge, is also a novelist. Before joining the ‘family business’ herself, Joan had a variety of jobs, including working for the BBC, the United Nations Information Centre and then as features editor for a short story magazine. Her first children’s novel, The Kingdom of the Cave, was published in 1960.
Joan Aiken wrote over a hundred books for young readers and adults and is recognized as one of the classic authors of the twentieth century. Her best-known books are those in the James III saga, of which The Wolves of Willoughby Chase was the first title, published in 1962 and awarded the Lewis Carroll prize. Both that and Black Hearts in Battersea have been filmed. Her books are internationally acclaimed and she received the Edgar Allan Poe Award in the United States as well as the Guardian Award for Fiction in this country for The Whispering Mountain.
Joan Aiken was decorated with an MBE for her services to children’s books. She died in 2004.
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