The Green Book (Sunburst Book) - Softcover

Jill Paton Walsh

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0374428026 ISBN 13: 9780374428020

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), 1986

Synopsis

"We are at Shine, on the first day, " says Pattie, when, as the youngest member of the group, she is given the honor of naming the new settlement. Refugees from the dying planet Earth, they, along with other ships, have been sent into space in the hope that some of them will survive to continue the human race. But the success of Shine remains doubtful as crops fail and provisions brought from Earth dwindle. Even the excitement surrounding the hatching of the giant moth people from the "boulders" in Boulder Valley doesn't make the group forget the hopelessness of the situation. It isn't until Pattie and her sister Sarah make an important discovery that survival becomes a certainty.

About this title

About the Author:

Jill Paton Walsh is the author of books for adults, young adults and children. Her novel Knowledge of Angels was short-listed for the Booker Prize. Her crime novels and mystery novels include The Attenbury Emeralds, A Presumption of Death, The Wyndham Case and A Piece of Justice, which was shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award. With Dorothy L. Sayers, she was co-author of Thrones, Dominations. Her novels for children and young adults include A Parcel of Patterns. She lives in Cambridge, England.

Review:

"The Green Book is a clever and beautifully shaped little combination of future fiction and metafiction. . .It is the record of the exodus of a group of Britons from a dying Earth to a new planet. . .The naïve courage of the children. . .saves the colony." --Starred, School Library Journal
“An enthralling story, flawlessly told.”—The New Yorker
 
A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0374428026
• ISBN 13: 9780374428020
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80