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Julia and the Shark: An enthralling, uplifting adventure story from the creators of LEILA AND THE BLUE FOX

4.46 (1,247 ratings by Goodreads)

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By (author): Kiran Millwood Hargrave

Illustrated by: Tom de Freston

A captivating, powerful and luminous story from a bestselling, award-winning author about a mother, a daughter, and the great Greenland shark. With mesmerising black and yellow illustrations and presented as a deluxe hardback with tracing paper inserts, this is a perfect gift for 9+ fans of David Almond and Frances Hardinge.

'Such rich and vivid prose ... with beautiful illustrations by Tom de Freston' New York Times

'Tom de Freston's stunning illustrations perfectly complement the poetry of Kiran Millwood Hargrave's story' Cressida Cowell

'A truly beautiful book, with text and illustrations in perfect harmony. A book to treasure!' Jacqueline Wilson


'Julia and the Shark is deep, beautiful and true. The art shines and the writing soars - a classic from cover to cover' Eoin Colfer

'A rich, immersive and wondrous journey, through deep darkness to hope and light' Sophie Anderson, author of The House with Chicken Legs


The shark was beneath my bed, growing large as the room, large as the lighthouse, rising from unfathomable depths until it ripped the whole island from its roots. The bed was a boat, the shark a tide, and it pulled me so far out to sea I was only a speck, a spot, a mote, a dying star in an unending sky...

Julia has followed her mum and dad to live on a remote island for the summer - her dad, for work; her mother, on a determined mission to find the elusive Greenland shark. But when her mother's obsession threatens to submerge them all, Julia finds herself on an adventure with dark depths and a lighthouse full of hope...

A beautiful, lyrical, uplifting story about a mother, a daughter, and love - with timely themes of the importance of science and the environment.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 540g
  • Dimensions: 158 x 218mm
  • Publication Date: 02 Sep 2021
  • Publisher: Hachette Children's Group
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • Age Group: Ages 9-11
  • ISBN13: 9781510107786

About Kiran Millwood Hargrave

Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston met in 2009 when Kiran was a student and Tom was artist-in-residence at Cambridge University. They have been a couple and collaborators ever since but Julia and the Shark was their first novel. It was Indie Book of the Month Scottish Booktrust Book of the Month and won the Waterstones Children's Gift of the Year 2021. Kiran is the award-winning bestselling author of stories including The Girl of Ink & Stars and The Deathless Girls and Tom worked as an acclaimed artist for many years making his illustrative debut with Julia and the Shark and his writing debut with Wreck (Granta 2022). They live in Oxford with their cats Luna and Marly in a house between a river and a forest.

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