Elementals: Water
  • Published: 15 September 2011
  • ISBN: 9780552565011
  • Imprint: Corgi Childrens
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $19.99
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Elementals: Water

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2 Aug 2010
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15 Sep 2011
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A new collection of fairy tales based on water written by two outstanding and renowned authors.

Six fabulous tales - vividly imagined and powerfully told.

The shriek of the wind, calling the waters to rebel - and a silver man from the sea with a voice like the roar of a seashell . . .

A long-told story of the sea people and their song - and a golden eye, glittering in a pool at the edge of a desert . . .

A ferocious serpent, its body as think as the trunk of a huge tree - and the immense, unknowable Kraken, dark beyond black, cold beyond ice, waking on the ocean floor . . .

Immerse yourself in this mesmorising collection of short stories inspired buy the element of Water - and be swept away by the supurb storytelling skills of two major award-winning authors.

  • Published: 15 September 2011
  • ISBN: 9780552565011
  • Imprint: Corgi Childrens
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $19.99
Categories:

About the authors

Peter Dickinson

Peter Dickinson was born in Africa, but raised and educated in England. From 1952 to 1969 he was on the editorial staff of Punch, and since then has earned his living writing fiction of various kinds for adults and children.

Amongst many other awards, Peter Dickinson has been nine times short-listed for the prestigious Carnegie medal for children’s literature and was the first author to win it twice. His books for children have also been published in many languages throughout the world. His latest collection of short stories, Earth and Air, was published by Small Beer Press.

Peter Dickinson was the first author to win the Crime-Writers Golden Dagger for two books running: Skin Deep (1968), and A Pride of Heroes (1969). He has written twenty-one crime and mystery novels, which have been published in several languages.

He has been chairman of the Society of Authors and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He was awarded an OBE for services to literature in 2009.

Robin McKinley

Robin McKinley is an American writer and has won many awards
in the US, including the Newbery Medal for THE HERO AND THE CROWN and a Newbery Honor for THE BLUE SWORD. She now lives in Hampshire with her husband, author Peter Dickinson, three dogs, a lot of rose bushes and a 1965 cream-coloured MGB convertible.

Praise for Elementals: Water

This is a beautifully presented collection of tales emerging from water, with an absorbing cover. A hauntingly memorable book

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