Description
| Product ID: | 9780192769602 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | River Boy |
| Authors: | Author: Tim Bowler |
| Page Count: | 192 |
| Subjects: | Children’s / Teenage fiction and true stories, Children's / Teenage fiction & true stories, Children’s / Teenage: Personal and social topics, Personal & social issues (Children's / Teenage), Interest age: from c 9 years |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Tim Bowler's award-winning and breathtaking book River Boy is now available in this stunning new edition with cover artwork by Tom Clohosy Cole and an introduction by award-winning writer, David Almond. Grandpa is dying. He can barely move his hands any more but, stubborn as ever, refuses to stay in hospital. He''s determined to finish his last painting, River Boy, before he goes.At first Jess can''t understand his refusal to let go, but then she too becomes involved in the mysterious painting. And when she meets the river boy himself, she finds she is suddenly caught up in a challenge of her own that she must complete - before it''s too late . . . This amazing book by critically-acclaimed author, Tim Bowler, was the winner of the prestigious Carnegie Medal and is being published in this stunning edition for a new generation of readers.With a stunning new cover by Tom Clohosy Cole and an introduction by award-winning writer, David Almond, this new edition will appeal to a whole new generation of readers. |
| Imprint Name: | Oxford University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Oxford University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2019-02-07 |
