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Ally rows with his mother and doesn't please his father. Every Sunday he has to visit his aunt in a mental hospital. He thinks his visits are a waste of time. Then, one day, he sees a girl on the other side of the lake from the hospital grounds. The author won a Carnegie Medal for "Goggle Eyes".
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About the Author
Anne Fine has been an acknowledged top author in the children's book world since her first book was published in the mid 1970s, and has now written more than forty books and won virtually every major award going, including the Carnegie Medal (more than once), the Whitbread Children's Award, the Guardian Children's Fiction Award, the Smarties Prize and others. The Children's Laureate from 2001-2003, Anne is also very funny and young readers love her lack of hypocrisy about the family and her honesty about how people can behave. She lives in the North-East. 'One of the sharpest and most humorous observers of the human condition writing today for the young' School Librarian 'She is translated into 26 languages and has regularly won every major children's literary award in the land, including the Carnegie Medal twice and the Whitbread Children's Novel award twice . . . There are few more influential, or more unfailingly intelligent, authors at work' Scotsman 'A subversively wicked gift for exploring family tensions' Independent
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"A compelling book for early teens" -- Mary Arrigan * Irish Examiner * "Written with clear understanding not just of children, but more importantly of their perception of the world - and that's what puts it in the top notch" -- Phil Hewitt * Chichester Observer * "Unusual, imaginative and compassionate story" * Bournemouth Daily Echo *
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- PublisherEgmont Childrens Books
- Publication date1980
- ISBN 10 041688640X
- ISBN 13 9780416886405
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages128
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THE STONE MENAGERIE
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Methuen, London, 1980
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Jennifer Eachus; (illustrator). First Edition. 128 pp. Green boards lettered in gilt on the spine. Light rubbing at the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. Dj art by Jennifer Eachus. Size: 8vo. Book. Seller Inventory # 227620
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The Stone Menagerie
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st printing. Tightly bound and carefully read. Both book & jacket are in excellent clean & sound condition except for a little ight spotting to the top edge. No inscription or ownership markings. No tears or loss. Seller Inventory # 20616
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The Stone Menagerie
Published by
Methuen Children's Books Ltd, London, 1980
ISBN 10: 041688640X
ISBN 13: 9780416886405
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Seller: The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Jacket and illustrations by Jennifer Eachus (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, not price clipped (no published price), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy for its age. 128pp. Ally really doesn't want to go with his mum on her weekly visit to his fragile aunt Chloe at the big Victorian hospital, until he discovers a hidden garden in the grounds. Here a young homeless couple have made themselves a home. Suddenly Ally begins to discover a new way of looking at the world and to understand his aunt and some of her sensitivity. But there is another side to the coin, too, and the young couple must also be prepared to adapt to suit their changing circumstances. Classic fiction for children, from prolific author Anne Fine OBE. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 008034
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