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Winner of the inaugural Frances Lincoln Diverse Voices Award 2009
A thrilling contemporary adventure wittily shot through with the powerful fantasy stories of the old demons from the Japanese past. Miku knows about the demons from growing up in Japan where her grandmother believed in them and taught her the best way to protect a home against them. Her mother thinks it a load of nonsense which is how she comes to be tricked by a sweet sounding woman who knocks at the door. That’s bad but when Miku gets to school and finds her teacher has been replaced by a demon, Miku knows things are serious. Miku and her friend Cait soon have their courage tested to the limit as they wage war against the demons and snatch Miku’s baby brother to safety.
About the Diverse Voices Award:
The Frances Lincoln Diverse Voices Children’s Book Award is for a manuscript that celebrates cultural diversity in the widest possible sense, either in terms of its story or the ethnic and cultural origins of its author. The winning writer must not previously have published a novel for children.
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Takeshita Demons Synopsis
Miku Takeshita and her family have moved from Japan to live in the UK, but unfortunately the family's enemy demons have followed them! Miku knows she's in trouble when her new supply teacher turns out to be a Nukekubi - a bloodthirsty demon who can turn into a flying head and whose favourite snack is children. That night, in a raging snowstorm, Miku's little brother Kazu is kidnapped by the demons, and then it's up to Miku and her friend Cait to get him back. The girls break into their snow-locked school, confronting the dragon-like Woman of the Wet, and outwitting the faceless Nopera-bo. At last they come face to face with the Nukekubi itself - but will they be in time to save Kazu?
Cristy Burne says of her award-winning book: “Takeshita Demons is a rollicking adventure story about what happens when a crowd of spooky demons invade the lives of two ordinary school girls, Miku Takeshita and her pal Cait O’Neill. The demons are all real: just as Western cultures have vampires and werewolves and witches, Japanese people have kappa and oni and tengu. I first heard of these demons while living in Japan. I was there for three years, working as a teacher and editor and studying Japanese, and I found the Japanese culture fascinating.”
Find out more about Cristy and her adventures on the road to publication by clicking here.
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9781847801159 |
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3rd June 2010 |
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Cristy Burne |
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Siku |
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Frances Lincoln Childrens Books an imprint of Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd |
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About Cristy Burne
Cristy Burne has joint New Zealand and Australian citizenship, has travelled widely and lived for several years in Japan as a teacher and editor. It was during this time that she became fascinated with Japanese folklore and the supernatural yokai - demons - which are very much a part of Japanese culture, but little known outside Japan. Cristy has spent most of her career as a science writer and currently works for a computing network designed to solve global problems. She won the Voices on the Coast Youth Literature Award for emerging writers, in Queensland, Australia, and the inaugural Frances Lincoln Diverse Voices Children's Book Award (click here to find out more about this prize). Cristy and her husband live in East London.
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