The Puppet (After Dark 35) - Softcover

Tan, Shaun

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0850919665 ISBN 13: 9780850919660

Publisher: Lothian Pub Co, 2000

Synopsis

Tim spends a day at his cold and remote father's TV studio, where he meets a strange ventriloquist. When Tim accidentally damages the ventriloquist's puppet, he has to escape the deranged man's fury, with or without his father's help.

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About the Author

Adelaide writer Ian Bone has an extensive, award-winning background in children's television, producing drama and situation comedy. He began writing young adult and children's literature while at the ABC and has had a number of books published. His previous Lothian Books are the critically acclaimed Fat Boy Saves World, CBC Notable Book, 1999, The Puppet, in the After Dark series, his humourous Takeaways novel, Spy Babies, and the YA novel, Tin Soldiers. ILLUSTRATORBIO: Shaun Tan has an outstanding reputation for his illustrative work. He won the Crichton Award for Book Illustration (The Viewer) in 1995. His collaborative effort with John Marsden, The Rabbits was named CBC Picture Book of the Year in 1999. Memorial was his third picture book. He has been a leading science-fiction illustrator in Australia for several years; with recognition including the Illustrators of the Future Award (1991) and the Australian National Science Fiction Best Artist Award (1995, 1996). He contributes regular political cartoons to the Western Review and is the art editor and a regular contributor to Eidelon magazine.

About this edition

• Publisher: Lothian Pub Co
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0850919665
• ISBN 13: 9780850919660
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Illustrator: Bone Ian