Sibéal Pounder

Sprouts

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

I absolutely ADORED it! A really funny, clever, brilliant play on all the Christmas tropes. It just has to be made into a movie!' Emma Carroll on TINSEL 'Very sparkly storytelling and a lovely portrayal of friendship' Hilary McKay on TINSEL 'Tinsel is Christmas spirit wrapped in a fun, feminist parcel' Lesley Parr on TINSEL *** Enter the future where it's Christmas day ... every day. Except, that is, on the Mince Pie Isles where a group of rebel witches live in secret, illegally celebrating just once a year and practising their sprout-based magic passed down through an old spell book from Guardian to Guardian. Gryla Garland is a young witch who thinks it might be quite nice to celebrate Christmas every day, just like everyone else. But when the hapless and accident-prone young witch is unexpectedly chosen as the next Guardian of the spell book, she discovers that 24/7 Christmas - governed by a tyrannical Santa - isn't all it's cracked up to be. Now she just has to think of a way to change it back ...

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 554044
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Altersempfehlung: 9 bis 11 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm
• ISBN-13: 9781526639462
• ISBN-10: 1526639467
• Artikelnr.: 67402344

Autorenporträt

Sibéal Pounder is a #1 New York Times bestselling author of the much-loved and highly successful children's fiction series Witch Wars, Bad Mermaids and Neon's Secret UNIverse, and the Christmas hit Tinsel. She has also written Beyond Platform 13, the sequel to The Secret of Platform 13 by Eva Ibbotson, and the novelisation of the film Wonka. Her World Book Day book Bad Mermaids Meet the Witches was a Sunday Times bestseller, and Witch Wars was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and the Sainsbury's Children's Book Award.