Katherine Rundell

The Explorer (eBook, ePUB)

WINNER OF THE COSTA CHILDREN'S BOOK AWARD
Illustrator: Horn, Hannah

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Go on an adventure with Katherine Rundell ...
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Winner of the Children's Book Prize
Winner of the Costa Children's Book Award 2017
Winner of the London Book Fair Children's Travel Book of the Year
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'I loved The Explorer' - Jacqueline Wilson
'Rundell is now unarguably in the FIRST RANK' - Philip Pullman
'Read everything she writes' - Daily Mail
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From his seat in the tiny aeroplane, Fred watches as the mysteries of the Amazon jungle pass by below him. He has always dreamed of becoming an explorer, of making history and of reading his name amongst the lists of great discoveries. If only he could land and look about him.

As the plane crashes into the canopy, Fred is suddenly left without a choice. He and the three other children may be alive, but the jungle is a vast, untamed place. With no hope of rescue, the chance of getting home feels impossibly small.

Except, it seems, someone has been there before them ...

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Altersempfehlung: ab 9 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. August 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781408854884
• Artikelnr.: 48837710

Autorenporträt

Katherine Rundell is a multi-million-bestselling author whose novels for children have won the Waterstones Children's Book Prize, the Blue Peter Book Award and the Costa Children's Book Award, among many others. Impossible Creatures was Waterstones Book of the Year 2023, and in 2024 Katherine was named the British Book Awards Author of the Year and Impossible Creatures won the Children's Fiction Book of the Year. She is a Quondam Fellow of All Souls College and a Fellow of St Catherine's College, Oxford, where she works on Renaissance literature. Her books for adults include Super-Infinite, winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize. Very occasionally she goes climbing across the rooftops of Oxford, late at night.