The Stone Menagerie
$26.90
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
15 August 2009
Summary
Exciting reissue edition of a favourite Anne Fine novel that explores nonconformity and the pressures to fit in to our society.
Ally really doesn’t want to go with his mum on her weekly visit to his fragile aunt Chloe at the big Victorian hospital - until he discovers a hidden garden in the grounds. Here a young homeless couple have made themselves a home. Suddenly Ally begins to discover a new way of looking at the world - and to understand his aunt and some of her sensitivity. But t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780552559942 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0552559946 |
| Author: | Anne Fine |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Children's UK |
| Imprint: | Corgi Childrens |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 15 August 2009 |
| Weight: | 127g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 12mm |
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Critics Review
A compelling book for early teens
A compelling book for early teens – Mary Arrigan * Irish Examiner *Written with clear understanding not just of children, but more importantly of their perception of the world - and that’s what puts it in the top notch – Phil Hewitt * Chichester Observer *Unusual, imaginative and compassionate story * Bournemouth Daily Echo *
About The Author
Anne Fine
Anne Fine has been an acknowledged top author in the children’s book world since her first book was published in the mid 1970s, and has now written more than forty books and won virtually every major award going, including the Carnegie Medal (more than once), the Whitbread Children’s Award, the Guardian Children’s Fiction Award, the Smarties Prize and others. The Children’s Laureate from 2001-2003, Anne is also very funny and young readers love her lack of hypocrisy about the family and her honesty about how people can behave. She lives in the North-East.
‘One of the sharpest and most humorous observers of the human condition writing today for the young’ - School Librarian
‘She is translated into 26 languages and has regularly won every major children’s literary award in the land, including the Carnegie Medal twice and the Whitbread Children’s Novel award twice … There are few more influential, or more unfailingly intelligent, authors at work’ - Scotsman
‘A subversively wicked gift for exploring family tensions’ - Independent
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