Barnaby Grimes is a tick-tock lad, high-stacking his way across the rooftops of his city in search of adventure and mystery. In each tale, he encounters a supernatural force and must battle the horrors that await him.
In LEGION OF THE DEAD, Barnaby finds himself embroiled in a plot that includes a legion of zombies raised from the dead. In Dickensian times, people were terrified of being buried alive, and so were left in their coffin with a wire, attached to a bell, running from above the ground, down through the earth and the lid of the coffin, and tied to the little finger of the buried body. Those who found themselves awake in the darkness of their coffin could wiggle their finger and summon help. And so one night, Barnaby makes a shortcut through a graveyard and is horrified to hear the tinkling of dozens of little bells...
Περίληψη
Barnaby Grimes is a tick-tock lad, high-stacking his way across the rooftops of his city in search of adventure and mystery. In each tale, he encounters a supernatural force and must battle the horrors that await him.
In LEGION OF THE DEAD, Barnaby finds himself embroiled in a plot that includes a legion of zombies raised from the dead. In Dickensian times, people were terrified of being buried alive, and so were left in their coffin with a wire, attached to a bell, running from above the ground, down through the earth and the lid of the coffin, and tied to the little finger of the buried body. Those who found themselves awake in the darkness of their coffin could wiggle their finger and summon help. And so one night, Barnaby makes a shortcut through a graveyard and is horrified to hear the tinkling of dozens of little bells...
Πληροφορίες προϊόντος
Συγγραφέας
Stewart, Ρaul,Riddell, Chris
Eκδότης
Doubleday
ISBN
9780552556262
Κωδικός Ευριπίδη 040100038280
Έτος κυκλοφορίας 2009
Σελίδες 0
Διαστάσεις
Βάρος 350 gr
Ηλικία Για Ηλικία 9-12
Stewart, Ρaul
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Paul Stewart (Author) Paul Stewart is a highly regarded author of books for young readers - everything from picture books to football stories, fantasy and horror. Together with Chris Riddell, he is co-creator of the bestselling Edge Chronicles series, which has sold over three million books and is now available in over thirty languages. They are also co-creators of the Far-Flung Adventure series, which includes Fergus Crane, Gold Smarties Prize Winner, Corby Flood and Hugo Pepper, Silver Nestle Prize Winners, and the Barnaby Grimes Series.Chris Riddell (Author) Chris Riddell is an acclaimed artist of children's books and a political cartoonist for the Observer. Amongst other titles, Chris illustrates the Ottoline young fiction series and the Goth Girl series, as well as working closely with Paul Stewart on the Edge Chronicles and Wyrmeweald. Children's Laureate from 2015-2017, he has won many awards for his work, including the Nestle Gold Award, the UNESCO Award for Something Else and the rare honour of three Kate Greenaway Medals.
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Ο Κρις Ρίντελ, τιμημένος με την κορυφαία βρετανική διάκριση του Πρέσβη της Παιδικής Λογοτεχνίας για την περίοδο 2015-2017, είναι ένας από τους πλέον καταξιωμένους εικονογράφους και συγγραφείς στον κόσμο, ενώ συνεργάζεται ως πολιτικός σκιτσογράφος με την εφημερίδα The Observer. Τα έργα του έχουν τιμηθεί με τα σημαντικότερα βραβεία στον χώρο της παιδικής λογοτεχνίας, όπως τα CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal (για τα έτη 2001, 2004 και 2016), Nestle Children's Book Prize, Red House Childen's Book Award και Costa Children's Book Award (2013). Επίσης, έχει λάβει τη διάκριση του Τάγματος της Βρετανικής Αυτοκρατορίας (OBE) για την προσφορά του στις τέχνες και το κοινωνικό του έργο. Ζει στο Μπράιτον με την οικογένειά του.
Chris Riddell, the 2015-2017 UK Children's Laureate, is an accomplished artist and the political cartoonist for the Observer. He has enjoyed great acclaim for his books for children. His books have won a number of major prizes, including the 2001 and 2004 CILIP Kate Greenaway Medals. Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse won the Costa Children's Book Award 2013. His previous work for Macmillan includes the bestselling Ottoline books, The Emperor of Absurdia, and, with Paul Stewart, the Muddle Earth books, the Scavenger series and the Blobheads series. Chris lives in Brighton with his family.
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