Description
Are you brave enough to find out what happens when a spoilt girl is spiteful to a giant hungry worm?
Can you bear to watch a (very silly) boy poke an angry sleeping sea-monster?
Do you dare to discover why should you never, ever steal milk from a Frid?*
Beware: Naughty children always get their just deserts . . .
Eva Ibbotson's Let Sleeping Sea-Monsters Lie contains five delightfully funny cautionary tales, with a foreword by Julia Donaldson, author of The Gruffalo.
*A dog-munching rock. Doesn't everyone know that?
A celebration of and introduction to the funny, enchanting and utterly brilliant writing of Eva Ibbotson - perfect for young readers. First published in 1983 as THE WORM AND THE TOFFEE-NOSED PRINCESS, this wonderful reissue features a stand-out jacket design from Jimmy Pickering and irresistible new inside illustrations. JOURNEY TO THE RIVER SEA has sold over 450,000 copies. It won the Nestle Smarties Gold Award, was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and was runner-up for the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year and the Guardian Fiction Award. THE STAR OF KAZAN was shortlisted for both the Nestle Children's Book Award and the Carnegie Medal. WHICH WITCH? and THE SECRET OF PLATFORM 13 were both shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. THE OGRE OF OGLEFORT was shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Award and the Roald Dahl Funny Prize.
About the Author
Eva Ibbotson was born in Vienna, but when the Nazis came to power her family fled to England and she was sent to boarding school. She became a writer while bringing up her four children, and her bestselling novels have been published around the world. Journey to the River Sea won the Nestle Gold Award and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal, the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. Some of her other young fiction titles include The Secret of Platform 13, Which Witch? and The Great Ghost Rescue. Eva died peacefully in October 2010 at the age of eighty-five.
Book Information
ISBN 9781447205876
Author Eva Ibbotson
Format Paperback
Page Count 144
Imprint Macmillan Children's Books
Publisher Pan Macmillan
Weight(grams) 108g
Dimensions(mm) 197mm * 129mm * 9mm
