The Scream (PB)

Joan Aiken (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

96 Seiten

2003
Macmillan Children's Books (Verlag)
978-0-330-39703-2 (ISBN)

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David's Gran has a mysterious liking for the famous painting, "The Scream". She has strange powers, and sends bad luck to people she doesn't like. On her Scottish island home she was a "Ridder" who could make troublesome rats run into the sea. Now she comes to look after him.

David's Gran has a mysterious liking for the famous painting 'The Scream'. She has strange powers, and sends bad luck to people she doesn't like. On her Scottish island home she was a 'Ridder' who could make troublesome rats run into the sea. Now she has moved to the city to look after her orphaned grandchildren, but her dark secrets have come with her...A tense, exciting and disturbing new story from Joan Aiken, whose magical, fantastic and supernatural books for children are among the best ever written.

Joan Aiken was born in Rye, Sussex in 1924, daughter of the American poet Conrad Aiken, and started writing herself at the age of five. Since the 1960s she wrote full time and published over 100 books. Best known for her children’s books such as The Wolves of Willoughby Chase and Midnight is a Place, she also wrote extensively for adults and published many contemporary and historical novels, including sequels to novels by Jane Austen. In 1968 she won the Guardian Children’s book prize for Whispering Mountain, followed by an Edgar Allan Poe award for Night Fall in 1972, and was awarded an MBE for her services to children’s literature in 1999. Joan Aiken died in 2004.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	7.2.2003
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	130 x 197 mm
Gewicht	110 g
Themenwelt	Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Kinderbücher bis 11 Jahre
ISBN-10	0-330-39703-6 / 0330397036
ISBN-13	978-0-330-39703-2 / 9780330397032
Zustand	Neuware