Frank English

The Boys in Black

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Hugo and Betsy live an ordinary life with their mom and dad. Despite being six-year-old twins, they are as different as chalk and cheese. Betsy is outgoing and loves attention, whereas her brother is serious and quiet. That is, until he comes across a rather strange and interesting black crow and discovers he can talk to him.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Random House LLC
• Seitenzahl: 72
• Altersempfehlung: 7 bis 12 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 148mm x 4mm
• Gewicht: 95g
• ISBN-13: 9781913071851
• ISBN-10: 1913071855
• Artikelnr.: 60321610

Autorenporträt

Born in 1946 in the West Riding of Yorkshire's coal fields around Wakefield, he attended grammar school, where he enjoyed sport rather more than academic work. After three years at teacher training college in Leeds, he became a teacher in 1967. He spent a lot of time during his teaching career entertaining children of all ages, a large part of which was through telling stories, and encouraging them to escape into a world of imagination and wonder. Some of his most disturbed youngsters he found to be very talented poets, for example. He has always had a wicked sense of humour, which has blossomed only during the time he has spent with his wife, Denise. This sense of humour also allowed many youngsters to survive often difficult and brutalising home environments. In 2006, he retired after forty years working in schools with young people who had significantly disrupted lives because of behaviour disorders and poor social adjustment, generally brought about through circumstances beyond their control. At the same time as moving from leafy lane suburban middle-class school teaching in Leeds to residential schooling for emotional and behavioural disturbance in the early 1990s, changed family circumstance provided the spur to achieve ambitions. Supported by his wife, Denise, he achieved a Master's degree in his mid forties and a PhD at the age of fifty-six, because he had always wanted to do so.