The Wolves of Willoughby Chase: 60th Anniversary Edition

Name: The Wolves of Willoughby Chase: 60th Anniversary Edition
Brand: Penguin Random House Children's UK
Price: 11.47 EUR
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By (author): Joan Aiken

Rediscover the A Puffin Book series and bring the best-loved classics to a new generation - including this special edition of The Wolves of Willoughby Chase.

It's 19th Century England, Good King James III is on the throne, and the whole country is ravaged by wolves which have migrated through the newly-opened Channel Tunnel.

When young orphans Bonnie and Sylvia get caught by the governess, Miss Slighcarp - they need their wits and Simon the goose-boy - to escape unscathed.

For Miss Slighcarp is more cruel and merciless than the wolves that surround the great house of Willoughby Chase. . .

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Weight: 191g
Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
Publication Date: 02 Jul 2015
Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Age Group: Ages 9-11
ISBN13: 9780141362663

About 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.