The Boggart
$26.20
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
16 April 2018
Summary
Reissued in A Puffin Book - the first in award-winning Susan Cooper’s funny and moving adventures of the mischievous Boggart.
Accidentally transported from his remote Scottish castle to the bright, fast-moving, hi-tech city of Toronto, the highly mischievous Boggart simply can’t resist the opportunity for pranks, and wreaks havoc for the Volnik family, inheritors of his distant castle home. But the Boggart doesn’t mean any real harm, and when he begins to pine for the rolling Scottish…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241326817 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241326818 |
| Author: | Susan Cooper |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Children's UK |
| Imprint: | Puffin |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 16 April 2018 |
| Weight: | 191g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 17mm |
| Series: | A Puffin Book |
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Critics Review
Here (Susan Cooper) uses a peripheral part of that imagined world to create her mischievous main character, an Old Thing from the Wild Magic, and brings him into hilarious, tragic contact with our unimaginative civilization. … As long as writers with Susan Cooper’s skills continue to publish, magic is always available. * New York Times Book Review *
About The Author
Susan Cooper
Susan Cooper is a world-renowned author of children’s books. Born and brought up in England, she worked as a journalist before moving to America, where she now lives. Her classic The Dark Is Rising sequence has won the Newbery Medal and was twice shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. Her Boggart titles have won the Scottish Arts Council Children’s Book Award and been shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and the Smarties Prize. King of Shadows was also shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. As well as writing novels, Susan Cooper has written for the theatre and for television.
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