Julia and the Shark
Electronic book text
An enthralling, uplifting adventure story, the perfect gift for readers of 9 upwards
From bestselling author Kiran Millwood Hargrave and acclaimed illustrator Tom de Freston comes an extraordinary story about family, friendship and hope. Illustrated throughout in black, white and yellow, this stunning book is perfect for 9+ fans of David Almond, Sally Gardner and Frances Hardinge.
'Stunning' Cressida Cowell'A book to treasure!' Jacqueline Wilson'A classic from cover to cover' Eoin Colfer'A rich, immersive and wondrous journey' Sophie AndersonA remote island. A stormy summer. And an adventure as big as the Great Greenland shark ... My name is Julia.This is the story of the summer I spent living in a lighthouse.The summer I almost lost my mum, and found a shark older than trees.Don't worry though, that doesn't spoil the ending ... Julia has followed her mum and dad to live on a remote island for the summer - her dad, for work; her mother, on a determined mission to find the elusive Greenland shark. But when her mother's obsession threatens to submerge them all, Julia finds herself on an adventure with dark depths and a lighthouse full of hope...A beautiful and uplifting story about a mother, a daughter, and love - with timely themes of the importance of science and the environment.Kiran Millwood Hargrave is winner of the Wainwright Prize (in Sept 2023), the Waterstones Book Prize, and the British Book Awards Children's Book of the Year.Buy now!
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- ISBN: 9781510107809
- Author: Kiran Millwood Hargrave
- Pub date: 02.09.21
- RRP: $45.99
- Format: Electronic book text
Author
Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston met at Cambridge University in 2008. They have been a couple and collaborators ever since, creating award-winning illustrated novels including the Wainwright Prize-winning Leila and the Blue Fox, and Julia and the Shark, which was Waterstones Children's Gift of the Year. Kiran is the Sunday Times bestselling author of fourteen novels for children and adults; her debut The Girl of Ink & Stars has sold over half a million copies in the UK alone and is translated into more than thirty languages. Tom is a renowned artist, and has also illustrated books by David Almond, Liz Hyder, and Michael Morpurgo, as well as writing critically acclaimed narrative non-fiction for adults. They live in Oxford with their daughter and cats, in a house between a river and a forest.
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