Yokki and the Parno Gry (Child's Play Library)

Richard O'Neill, Katharine Quarmby, Marieke Nelissen

ISBN 10: 1846439264 / ISBN 13: 9781846439261

Published by Child's Play (International) Ltd 01/06/2016, 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Yokki and the Parno Gry (Child's Play Library)
• Publisher: Child's Play (International) Ltd 01/06/2016
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1846439264
• ISBN 13: 9781846439261
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

When a Traveller family experiences a run of bad luck, an imaginative boy called Yokki lifts their spirits with tales of a magical white horse. A traditional Traveller-family folk tale which inspires hope and celebrates creativity. Told by a Romani storyteller together with a picture book author to positively reflect Travelling cultures.

About the Authors

Richard O’Neill was born and brought up in a large traditional Romani family in the North of England. He is an award-winning storyteller and writer who tells his original stories in schools, museums, libraries and theatres throughout the UK. A sixth generation storyteller, he grew up in a vigorous oral storytelling tradition, learning his skills from some of the best Travelling storytellers in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Richard is the author of eleven children’s books, and his stories and plays have been broadcast on BBC Radio. His digital stories have been enjoyed throughout the world, and in 2013, he was the recipient of the National Literacy Hero award.

Katharine Quarmby is an award-winning writer, journalist and film-maker specialising in social affairs with an investigative and campaigning edge. She has spent most of her working life as a journalist and has made many films for the BBC, as well as working as a correspondent for the Economist, contributing to British broadsheets, including the Guardian, Sunday Times and the Telegraph. She is now an associate editor at Prospect magazine, but also freelances regularly for other papers, including a stint providing roving political analysis for the Economist during the 2010 general election.
In 2007 Katharine started to investigate a number of violent killings of disabled men and women across the UK. As news editor of the disability magazine, Disability Now, she was able to put together the first national dossier of such crimes that year, following it up with an investigative report on disability hate crimes, Getting Away with Murder, for the charity Scope and the UK’s Disabled People’s Council, in 2008. Her first book for adults, Scapegoat, an investigation into disability hate crime, is published early 2011 by Portobello Press.
Katharine also writes books for children. Her first book, Fussy Freya, was published by Frances Lincoln in 2008 and is now being adapted for the theatre.