LoveReading4Kids Says
LoveReading4Kids Says
Blink and You Die is the very last book in Lauren Child’s superb Ruby Redfort girl detective series, and what a finale it is! Someone, someone even more dangerous and ruthless than Ruby’s arch enemy The Count, is out to get Ruby. What should she do? Stay indoors and wait for someone else to do something?
Or go out there, root out the trouble and save herself? With Ruby, there’s only ever one option: death or glory! A typically fabulous story of revelations, mushrooms and double crossings follows culminating in a wonderful scene that has some characters literally hanging by an eyelash, and all loose ends elegantly tied up. No-one could ever match Ruby for brains, panache or pzazz, and she will be sorely missed!
There are wonderfully independent girl sleuths in Robin Stevens’s popular Murder Most Unladylike series, while Caleb Crisp’s Ivy Pocket books are inventive, stylish, idiosyncratic mysteries too.
Reviewed by Andrea ReeceAndrea Reece has spent almost her entire working life in children’s books, first as publisher, latterly as consultant, project manager and critic.
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Ruby Redfort: Undercover agent, ace code-breaker, thirteen-year-old genius. In the sixth and final book, the stakes are higher than ever; no one is safe and even the most dangerous criminals are running scared.Luckily, Ruby’s parents are as blissfully unaware as ever and Hitch, Mrs Digby and Clancy are on hand to help. But can Ruby wisecrack her way out of danger and outwit her enemies?
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Blink and You Die Synopsis
Ruby Redfort: Undercover agent, ace code-breaker, thirteen-year-old genius. In the sixth and final book, the stakes are higher than ever; no one is safe and even the most dangerous criminals are running scared.
Luckily, Ruby’s parents are as blissfully unaware as ever and Hitch, Mrs Digby and Clancy are on hand to help. But can Ruby wisecrack her way out of danger and outwit her enemies?
In this taut new adventure, Ruby must root out a hidden adversary, crack complex new codes and solve a decades-old mystery. Along the way, she encounters rare mushrooms, UFOs, yellow snakes and more than a few red herrings! Nothing is as it seems and as Ruby gets closer to the truth, she uncovers a deadly trail of deceit and is forced to question everything she believes to be true.
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9780007334292 |
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4th May 2017 |
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Lauren Child |
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HarperCollins Children's Books an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers |
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Paperback |
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540 pages |
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Ruby Redfort |
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Press Reviews
Lauren Child Press Reviews
Praise for Lauren Child:
'Lauren Child is a publishing phenomenon' - Observer Magazine
'Lauren Child is so good it's exhilarating' - The Independent
Praise for the Ruby Redfort series:
'The coolest girl hero in years ... Child refuses to write down to her tween and teen audience and challenges readers with more twists than a curling tongs party The Times
'Redfort is one of the best things to happen to ten-plus British fiction' The Times
Praise for Clarice Bean
'Lauren Child has put imagination and fun back into the real worlds of childhood' - Julia Eccleshare, Guardian
'Cool, punchy, stylish' - Sun
'A cracking adventure' - Mail
'What more could adventure-loving girls want?' - The Sunday Times
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About Lauren Child
Lauren Child is the author/illustrator of the much-loved Charlie and Lola books (now a major TV show) for very young readers, the Ruby Redfort series for older children and the Clarice Bean series for 7+ children as well as Hubert Horatio and many stand alone books.
Former Children's Laureate Lauren Child burst on to the children’s books scene in 1999 and has since published many bestselling and awardwinning books, including those featuring the hugely popular Charlie and Lola, and the Clarice Bean series. She has won numerous awards including the prestigious Kate Greenaway Medal and the Smarties Gold Award. Her books have been made into an award-winning TV series and have sold in many languages with runaway success.
In December 2008 she was named as a UNESCO Artist for Peace, and was awarded an MBE in 2009.
Lauren Child was the 10th Waterstones Children's Laureate. Of the role she said, “I want to inspire children to believe in their own creative potential, to make their own stories and drawings and ignite in them the delight of reading for pleasure. In an increasingly fast paced world, children need the freedom to dream and imagine; to enjoy reading, drawing and telling their own stories without value judgement or restraint”.
The role of Children's Laureate is awarded every two years to an author or illustrator of children’s books to “celebrate outstanding achievement in their field and recognise the important contribution children’s literature makes to cultural life”. Child’s tenure will ran until June 2019, which marked 20 years since the post was inaurgurated by Quentin Blake and since Child published her first book.
Child revealed that Blake was a huge inspiration to her. “When I was little, it never occurred to me to think of authors and illustrators as actual human beings," she said. "Then I saw Quentin on television live drawing on “Jackanory”, so he became a real-life illustrator to me and that made it something it was possible to become.”
Other previous post-holders include Anne Fine, Michael Morpurgo, Michael Rosen and Malorie Blackman.
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