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Hardback224 pages
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Random House Children's BooksPublication date
7th June 2007ISBN
9780385611886Children's Author 'Like-for-Like' recommendations
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Barnaby Grimes. Curse of the Night Wolf
Paul Stewart, Chris Riddell
Part of the 'Barnaby Grimes' Series
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Julia Eccleshare's comment:
A fully illustrated, spine tingling thriller tells how Barnaby Grimes escapes from a ferocious beast saving his skin – just – but suffering terribly in the process. There’s no let up to the excitement as Grimes moves swiftly from adventure to adventure.
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Synopsis
Barnaby Grimes. Curse of the Night Wolf by Paul Stewart, Chris RiddellBarnaby Grimes is a tick-tock lad, running errands in his city, day and night, and 'high-stacking' around the rooftops in search of new mysteries to solve. In this first adventure, Barnaby is attacked one night by an enormous dog. He kills it - but that's not the end of this particular mystery ...as Barnaby finds himself swept up in a world of crooked doctors, poor and ill-advised patients, strange tonics and very expensive furs...Could there be more to the seemingly respectable Dr Cadwallader and the tonics he doles out to the poor? Is there a link between the tonic and the huge dogs - or possibly wolves - that are roaming the city at night? When Barnaby's old acquantaince Benjamin goes missing, Barnaby fears the worst for him, and decides to dig deeper...This features a fantastic romp through a Dickensian-style city, with a wonderful new hero in the guise of Barnaby. This new series from the bestselling dream team of Stewart and Riddell is a must for all fans of the "Edge Chronicles" - but also for fans of Horowitz and Shan, as they move into new territory and deliver a brilliantly exciting thriller-horror for boys.
About The Author
Paul Stewart was born in London in 1955 and went to university in Lancaster. He then spent a year picking oranges in Greece, followed by a creative writing course at the University of East Anglia. Before becoming a full time writer, Paul taught English as a foreign language and lived in Germany and Sri Lanka for a while.
His first book, The Thought Domain, was published in 1988 and he has written at least one a year since then.
Paul met artist Chris Riddell because their children went to the same school, and they have done many joint projects with Paul writing the story and Chris illustrating it.
Amongst Paul’s most popular titles are Dogbird, a funny story about a bird that barks like a dog, and the Football Mad stories. Blobheads and Beyond the Deepwoods are two collaborations with Chris Riddell, and Blobheads is being turned into a cartoon series.
Paul works every single day of the year apart from Christmas day. He lives in Brighton with his wife [who’s a primary school teacher] and their son and daughter.
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