The Snow Maze (Sprinters) - Softcover

Mark, Jan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0744582954 ISBN 13: 9780744582956

Publisher: Walker Books, 2001

Synopsis

One day, on the way to school, Joe finds a key in the long grass. It's a large, heavy key. Joe thinks a giant might have dropped it. His friend Irrum thinks it might be magic. But Akash says the key is no good because it doesn't open anything. He laughs at Joe and makes the others laugh too - except Irrum, who says that Joe should try the key in the lonely gate. And when he does, Joe finds it opens up a new world.

About this title

About the Author:

Jan Mark is one of the most distinguished authors of books for young people. She has twice been awarded the Carnegie Medal and has also won The Guardian Award, the Observer Teenage Fiction Prize and the Angel Award for Fiction. Her many titles for Walker Books include Taking the Cat's Way Home and Lady Long-legs as well as the Walker picture books Fur, Strat and Chatto (winner of the 1990 Mother Goose Award), Fun with Mrs Thumb, This Bowl of Earth and The Midas Touch. Jan Mark lives in Oxford.

Review:

"A highly imaginative and beautifully scripted tale." Books For Keeps and The Reading and Language Information Centre "A story of universal emotions laced with a twist of magic... Beautifully written... Hauntingly supported by Jan Ormerod's mysteriously symbolic chapter headings and stark black and white drawings." The School Librarian "One of those rare people who can write for any age audience... An after-school secret garden story." The Independent on Sunday

About this edition

• Publisher: Walker Books
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0744582954
• ISBN 13: 9780744582956
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64