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Paperback144 pages
Interest Age: 7 years+
Illustrated By
Michael ForemanPublisher
Walker Books LtdPublication date
2nd June 2011ISBN
9781406324860Children's Author 'Like-for-Like' recommendations
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Painting Out the Stars
Written by:
Mal Peet,
Elspeth Graham
Illustrated by:
Michael Foreman
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Painting Out the Stars by Mal Peet, Elspeth GrahamThis title includes three deftly spun, emotionally resonant stories with the feel of time-honoured fables but the freshness of a contemporary voice. When Tashi's mother falls ill and is unable to work, Tashi looks to the monkeys on a Himalayan tea plantation for help...Yazul and his clan, trapped inside their desert fortress by bandits, are saved from starvation by fiercesome dragon kites...Issa, the old mountain guide, has his life turned upside down when he stumbles upon a camel sheltering a baby girl in a desert storm...This title features three charming tales from an award-winning author and illustrator.
About The Author
Mal Peet and Elspeth Graham live in Devon, in a house not too far from the sea. Elspeth writes in a room on the ground floor while Mal writes in the attic. Sometimes they meet in the middle to write books like this one. It is Elspeth who finds the seeds the stories grow from. She found the seed for Cloud Tea Monkeys while working on a book about tea. Mal is the author of teenage novels Keeper (9781406303933), Exposure (9781406306491) and Carnegie Medal-winning Tamar (9781406303940). Juan Wijngaard, whose parents are Dutch, was born in South America. He came to London in 1970 and studied Illustration at the Royal College of Art. Since then he has produced over thirty books for children, including Green Finger House, his first book and winner of the Mother Goose Award in 1981, Shakepeare's Globe (9780744592795), Tales of Wonder and Magic (9780744581478)and the Kate Greenaway Medal-winning Sir Gawain and the Loathly Lady. He lives with his family in New Mexico, USA.
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