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Paperback256 pages
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www.geraldine-mccaughrean.co.uk/Publisher
Usborne Publishing LtdPublication date
26th September 2008ISBN
9780746090930Children's Author 'Like-for-Like' recommendations
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Tamburlaine's Elephants
Geraldine Mccaughrean
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Geraldine McCaughrean is a genius in her ability to draw the reader in to a part of history that might not immediately spring to mind as being of interest and yet she makes you hungry for more. Here she draws upon a violent period of India’s history and interplays that history with a wonderful friendship that develops despite horrific dangers. The characters are brilliantly drawn and the sights and smells of time and place are so well described you feel you are there - on the battlefield, on the plains, and in the cities. It’s something entirely different from McCaughrean’s most recent novel, Peter Pan in Scarlet, the sequel to Peter Pan but it is equally compelling.
A piece of passion from the Editor:Geraldine McCaughrean is the King Midas of writers – everything she touches turns to gold! I didn’t know anything about the ancient ruler, Tamburlaine, but in this book she transported me to an exotic and faraway world of intrigue, danger and, ultimately, friendship.
Synopsis
Tamburlaine's Elephants by Geraldine MccaughreanRusti is a young Tartar, travelling and pillaging with the legendary Horde of Tamburlaine, Conqueror of the World. He dreams of honour and riches, and is proud to capture his first prisoners - an elephant and her keeper. Yet amidst the death and destruction, an unlikely friendship takes hold in this breathtaking tale. This is Geraldine's first novel after the world wide mega success of Peter Pan in Scarlet.
Reviews
‘Her artistry with language is remarkable, her descriptions so immediate they occasionally leave one gasping’. The Guardian
‘One of the greatest living children’s authors’. The Bookseller
‘One of our most versatile and contemporary children’s writers’ Times Educational Supplement
‘She has the gift of making remote times and places unfold before the reader’s very eyes…what a novelist’ The Independent
About The Author
Geraldine McCaughrean (born 1951) trained as a teacher but learned only that she was useless at teaching. So she worked instead as a sub at a partwork magazine company, perfect training in cutting to length, abandoning pretentions and writing blurbs. A Carnegie Medallist, three-time winner of the Whitbread and the very first recipient of the Blue Peter Book Award, she has written almost 150 books and plays. In 2006 she was blessed with the chance to write the official sequel to J M Barrie’s Peter Pan at the behest of Great Ormond Street Hospital. Peter Pan in Scarlet has been translated into 38 other languages.
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