The Edge Chronicles: The Winter Knights
Second Book of Quint
$24.27
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
1 October 2013
Summary
The second book of the Quint Saga, part of the bestselling Edge Chronicles.
Quint Verginix has enrolled as a squire in the Knight’s Academy. After his training, he will be able to pilot stormchaser sky-ships into the heart of Great Storms, and retrieve the solidified lightning - stormphrax - to weigh down the floating rock on which Sanctaphrax is built. But as a freezing winter takes hold, and the city strains to break free of its tether, ancient feuds threaten to tear its people apar…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780552569637 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0552569631 |
| Author: | Paul Stewart, Chris Riddell |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Children's UK |
| Imprint: | Corgi Childrens |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 1 October 2013 |
| Weight: | 282g |
| Dimensions: | 26mm x 133mm x 199mm |
| Series: | The Edge Chronicles |
| Audience Age: | 9-11 |
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Critics Review
Packed with action and adventure. There is a touch of the Lewis Carrolls to its authors’ enthusiastic and uninhibited inventiveness and to the illustrations
“Stunningly original” Guardian “Fabulously illustrated” Sunday Times “Packed with action and adventure. There is a touch of the Lewis Carrolls to its authors’ enthusiastic and uninhibited inventiveness and to the illustrations” Starburst “This series is so exceptional… I’d bet good money on it still being in print a century from now” Interzone “Lists tour in September in Publicity Diary.” Books in The Media
Paul Stewart
Paul Stewart is a highly regarded author of books for young readers, encompassing picture books, football stories, fantasy, and horror. He is the co-creator, alongside Chris Riddell, of the bestselling Edge Chronicles series, which has sold over three million copies and is translated into more than thirty languages. Stewart and Riddell also co-created the Far-Flung Adventure series, featuring titles such as Fergus Crane (Gold Smarties Prize Winner), Corby Flood, and Hugo Pepper (Silver Nestle Prize Winners), as well as the Barnaby Grimes Series.
Chris Riddell is an acclaimed artist of children’s books and a political cartoonist for The Observer. He illustrates the Ottoline young fiction series and the Goth Girl series, and collaborates with Paul Stewart on the Edge Chronicles and Wyrmeweald. As Children’s Laureate from 2015-2017, Riddell has received numerous awards, including the Nestle Gold Award, the UNESCO Award for Something Else, and three Kate Greenaway Medals.
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