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Annie Lumsden, The Girl from the Sea

Annie Lumsden, The Girl from the Sea

by David Almond and Beatrice Alemagna
Hardback
Publication Date: 06/08/2020

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A magical story about finding your identity from one of the most acclaimed storytellers of his generation, richly illustrated in full colour by an internationally renowned artist.

My mother says that all things can be turned to tales. I thought she meant tales like fish tails, but I was wrong. She meant tales like this, tales that are stories. But this tale of mine is very like a fish tail too...

Annie has never been like the other girls. Her mam tried sending her to school when she was small, but Annie couldn't seem to make words or numbers stick. She prefers instead to be swimming in the sea, or sunbathing on the shore at Stupor Beach, her head full of tales.

She should have been a fish, her mam always tells her, and Annie knows the truth of it. Then a stranger who comes to town is struck by the beauty and the wonder of her, and Annie Lumsden realizes that perhaps she really is half a creature from the sea.

ISBN:
9781406377590
9781406377590
Category:
Fantasy & magical realism (Children's / Teenage)
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
06-08-2020
Publisher:
Walker Books Ltd
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
64
Dimensions (mm):
208x162x10mm
Weight:
0.12kg
David Almond

David Almond is the author of Skellig, My Name is Mina, Counting Stars, The Savage, Island, A Song for Ella Grey, The Colour of the Sun and many other novels, stories, picture books, opera librettos, songs and plays.

His work is translated into 40 languages, and is widely adapted for stage and screen. His major awards include the Carnegie Medal, two Whitbread Awards, the Eleanor Farjeon Award, the Michael L Printz Award (USA), Le Prix Sorcieres (France) and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. In 2010 he won the Hans Christian Andersen Award, the world's most prestigious prize for children's authors.

David speaks at festivals and conferences around the world. He is Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. He is widely regarded as one of the most exciting, inspirational and innovative children's authors writing today. He has one amazing daughter. He lives in Bath and in Newcastle, the city in which he was born.

Beatrice Alemagna

Beatrice Alemagna studied at the Graphic School in Urbino, Italy and began her career as a poster artist. She then went on to write and illustrate for children and has now published 30 books, which have been translated widely. Beatrice won the Andersen Prize in 2010 and has been nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award four times; her picture book On a Magical Do-Nothing Day was voted by the New York Times as one of the ten best illustrated children's books of 2017 as well as being awarded the Golden Medal for Original Art by the Society of Illustrators. Beatrice is a native Italian now living in Paris.

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