Summary
Puffin Classics - the definitive collection of timeless stories, for every child.
Rediscover the A Puffin Book series and bring the best-loved classics to a new generation - including this thrilling edition of The Shadow Guests.
Following the double disappearance of his mother and older brother, Cosmo Curtoy is sent to live with his strange cousin in England. When he arrives, Cosmo decides to explore the ancient Mill House on his cousins’ estate - where he meets the Mill’s spi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241337363 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241337364 |
| Author: | Joan Aiken |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Children's UK |
| Imprint: | Puffin |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 29 October 2018 |
| Weight: | 192g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 18mm |
| Series: | A Puffin Book |
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stylish writing and vigorous invention– Publishers Weekly What a marvellous writer Joan Aiken is!– Leon Garfield
Stylish writing and vigorous invention * Publishers Weekly *What a marvellous writer Joan Aiken is! * Leon Garfield *Joan Aiken is a marvel – Philip Pullman * The Guardian *
About The Author
Joan Aiken
Joan Delano Aiken (1924-2004) was the daughter of the American poet, Conrad Aiken. Joan had a variety of jobs, including working for the BBC, the United Nations Information Centre and then as features editor for a short story magazine. Her first children’s novel, The Kingdom and the Cave, was published in 1960. Joan Aiken wrote over a hundred books for young readers and adults and is recognized as one of the classic authors of the twentieth century. Her best-known books are those in the James III saga, of which The Wolves of Willoughby Chase was the first title, published in l962 and awarded the Lewis Carroll prize. Both that and Black Hearts in Battersea have been filmed. Her books are internationally acclaimed and she received the Edgar Allan Poe Award in the United States as well as the Guardian Award for Fiction in this country for The Whispering Mountain. In 1999 Joan Aiken was awarded an MBE for her services to children’s books.
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