Catherine Johnson

Race to the Frozen North

The Matthew Henson Story
Illustrator: Hickey, Katie

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Produktbeschreibung

A thrilling fictionalised account of the life of Matthew Henson, the first African-American man to travel to the North Pole, from the Carnegie-nominated author Catherine Johnson.

Produktdetails

• 9 to 12
• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 131mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 214g
• ISBN-13: 9781781128404
• ISBN-10: 1781128405
• Artikelnr.: 52839869

Autorenporträt

Catherine Johnson is a screenwriter and bestselling author of several books for children and young adults. Shortlisted for the 2020 UKLA Book Awards, Race to the Frozen North is a perennial bestseller with sales of over 40,000 to date. Her acclaimed novel Sawbones won the Young Quills Award for Historical Fiction, and The Curious Tale of the Lady Caraboo was nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal and the YA Book Prize. Catherine is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Katie is a freelance illustrator recently graduated from Falmouth University. Having grown up in Cornwall, and also in the middle-east, Katie takes inspiration from her travels and surroundings to create her illustrations. Her work deals with both narrative and information and often combines the two.