Footprints in the Snow - Couverture souple

Holman, Maggie

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9082008912 ISBN 13 : 9789082008913

Editeur : Run Jump Jive, 2017

Synopsis

Ten-year-old Jamie goes to spend the Christmas holidays with his grandfather - his Grancher Pete - who lives in a cottage in a large forest. Grancher Pete has a new hobby, collecting evidence of an elusive black panther which supposedly lives deep in the forest, and he takes Jamie with him to search for clues. He also introduces Jamie to three traveller children, Caro, Finn and Molly who live in a nearby camp. The children show Jamie their huge forest playground and he is intrigued by their alternative outlook on life, which includes learning the forest's 'old ways' and talking to animals in a strange language. Jamie's holiday becomes more exciting when a heavy snowfall covers the landscape and he sets off in search of his new friends. While he thought he knew the forest well, the landscape looks completely different and he soon becomes lost among the trees. To top it all, Jamie unwittingly puts himself in terrible danger and no-one knows where he is. Who will be able to save him? And how? Children and adults alike will be drawn into Jamie's holiday adventure as they join him in discovering that there are special moments in our lives, when 'unreality' steps in to lend a helping hand.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Holman's love of the fantastical and the unusual stems from early childhood, when she loved to withdraw into imaginary worlds. In all her writing, whether stories or scripts, she likes to explore the possibilities that lie outside and alongside the real world. She studied Creative Arts at Newcastle-upon-Tyne Polytechnic and continued to write as a hobby while working as a music, drama and English teacher. In 1995 she left her native North East of England and headed to the Forest of Dean, in Gloucestershire. Her first two books, 'The Wishing Sisters & Other Forest Tales' (2008) and the children's story 'A Cat for Christmas' (2011), which is being relaunched in October 2015 as 'Footprints in the Snow', were inspired by the fifteen years she spent in this atmospheric forest area. Also in 1995, she decided to expand her training, studying screenwriting at cre8 Studios/Media Art in Swindon. She currently lives in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where she teaches in an international school.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Run Jump Jive
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9082008912
• ISBN 13: 9789082008913
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 144
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Printed by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg