Paper Boat, Paper Bird
$33.71
- Hardcover
112 pages
- Release Date
9 August 2022
Summary
A stunning story from the bestselling, prize-winning David Almond, unfolding the magic of the everyday. Mina, from the unforgettable Skellig and My Name is Mina, journeys to Japan and discovers the wonders of the world around her.
Kyoto, Japan. Mina is on a bus. Everything is strange and beautiful.
Mina watches as a woman folds a piece of paper into an origami boat, then floats it over to her.
As Mina discovers the magic of origami, her eyes are opene…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781444963274 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1444963279 |
| Author: | David Almond, Kirsti Beautyman |
| Publisher: | Hachette Children's Group |
| Imprint: | Hodder Children's Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 112 |
| Release Date: | 9 August 2022 |
| Weight: | 300g |
| Dimensions: | 204mm x 136mm x 16mm |
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About The Author
David Almond
David Almond (Author)
David Almond is the author of Skellig, My Name is Mina, Island, Bone Music and many other novels, stories, picture books, opera librettos, songs and plays. His work is translated into 40 languages, and is widely adapted for stage and screen. His major awards include the Carnegie Medal, two Whitbread Awards, the Eleanor Farjeon Award, the Michael L Printz Award (USA), Le Prix Sorcieres (France), the Nonino International Prize, the James Kruss Prize and the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize. He has also won the Hans Christian Andersen Award, the world’s most prestigious prize for children’s authors. In 2021, David was awarded an OBE for services to literature.
David speaks at festivals and conferences around the world. He is Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. He is widely regarded as one of the most exciting, inspirational and innovative children’s authors writing today. He has one amazing daughter. He lives in Newcastle, the city in which he was born.
Kirsti Beautyman (Illustrator)
Kirsti Beautyman is an illustrator and children’s book author based in Newcastle Upon Tyne. You’ll often find her in her small cosy studio, with her feet on a portable radiator, clutching a mug of hot Ribena while she works on her latest projects.
She graduated from Edinburgh college of Art in 2016 and was awarded ‘Picture Hooks Illustrator of the Year’ in 2017. In her most recent years Kirsti has turned to working digitally, however, her illustration still always begin as a loose pencil sketch in one of many battered sketchbooks.
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