Product details
- ISBN 9780746077078
- Weight: 200g
- Dimensions: 136 x 203mm
- Publication Date: 27 Oct 2006
- Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Oliver is growing up in an orphanage... until the day he dares to ask for more. Suddenly, he is cast out into a world of colourful characters, in which he will have to keep his wits about him and even pick pockets to survive. A retelling of the classic story by Charles Dickens, for children growing in their reading confidence and ability. Part of the Usborne Reading Programme, developed with reading experts from Roehampton University.
Chapters in this book include:
- Nobody's baby
- More means less
- Running away
- New friends
- Betrayed
- A robbery
- The secret of the locket
Mary Sebag-Montefiore is a best-selling children's author, whose re-tellings of classics have been published all over the world. She is the author of over 25 books and has adapted everything from Dickens to 'War and Peace'. She has also published articles on children's books academically and in the national press, and for adults, has written 'Women Writers of Children's Classics'.
"Mary Sebag-Montefiore's retellings are perhaps the best - well-written and dramatic"
The Telegraph
