Godhanger
  • Published: 31 December 2012
  • ISBN: 9780552567343
  • Imprint: Corgi Childrens
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $19.99

Godhanger

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1 Jan 2011
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31 Dec 2012
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A powerful and dramatic tale from the bestselling and award-winning author, Dick King-Smith.

From a silent perch in the upper branches of a great tree, a huge and mysterious bird known as the Skymaster watches over Godhanger Wood... watches the innocent blood shed daily by the cruel gamekeeper. And when the birds determine to save themselves, the gamekeeper finds himself locked in a deadly battle of wills with the greatest prize of all at stake - the Skymaster himself. But there can only be one winner...

A powerful and dramatic tale from the bestselling and award-winning author, Dick King-Smith.
  • Published: 31 December 2012
  • ISBN: 9780552567343
  • Imprint: Corgi Childrens
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $19.99
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About the author

Dick King-Smith

Dick King-Smith served in the Grenadier Guards during the Second World War, and afterwards spent twenty years as a farmer in Gloucestershire, the county of his birth. Many of his stories are inspired by his farming experiences. Later he taught at a village primary school. His first book, The Fox Busters, was published in 1978. He wrote a great number of children’s books, including The Sheep-Pig (winner of the Guardian Award and filmed as Babe), Harry’s Mad, Noah’s Brother, The Queen’s Nose, Martin’s Mice, Ace, The Cuckoo Child and Harriet’s Hare (winner of the Children’s Book Award in 1995). At the British Book Awards in 1991 he was voted Children’s Author of the Year. In 2009 he was made an OBE for services to children’s literature. Dick King-Smith died in 2011 at the age of eighty-eight. Discover more about Dick King-Smith at: dickkingsmith.com

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Praise for Godhanger

A powerful read . . . A raw and sombre struggle for survival, suffused with a vivid evocation of nature

The Bookseller

A darkly atmospheric thriller with a cast of murderous wild animals... the rich dark feel of the descriptive writing is magnificently reflected in the linear rhythms and velvety, crepuscular tones of Andrew Davidson's wood engravings

Guardian

For his insights into nature and his vivid descriptions of them, Dick King-Smith is an exceptional writer. In the new, more sober voice of Godhanger, he shows just what a good storyteller and writer he is

Julia Eccleshare, Books for Keeps

Beautifully illustrated . . . The reader is left with greater knowledge of nature as well as the satisfaction of a really good read

The Times