We’re dancing around the office today - the absolutely beautiful and brilliant TINDER by Sally Gardn
We’re dancing around the office today - the absolutely beautiful and brilliant TINDER by Sally Gardner and David Roberts has been shortlisted for BOTH the Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals. A hugely well deserved double recognition!Intrigued? Read a little more…A young soldier, a captive princess, witches, wolves and Death walk hand in hand in Sally Gardner’s exquisitely written new novel inspired by the Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale, THE TINDERBOX, illustrated by David Roberts.Otto Hundebiss is tired of war, but when he defies Death he walks a dangerous path. A half beast half man gives him shoes and dice which will lead him deep into a web of dark magic and mystery. He meets the beautiful Safire - pure of heart and spirit, the scheming Mistress Jabber and the terrifying Lady of the Nail. He learns the powers of the tinderbox and the wolves whose master he becomes. But will all the riches in the world bring him the thing he most desires?Fairy tales are often the cruellest stories of all; in this exquisite novel Sally Gardner writes about great love and great loss and David Roberts brings darkness and beauty to the text with his original illustrations. Stories with pictures are not just for young children. We have our fingers crossed! -- source link
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