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Lieferstatus:	Auf Bestellung (Lieferzeit unbekannt)
Veröffentlichung:	September 2018
Genre:	Kinder- / Jugendbücher
	Children’s / Teenage fiction# Historical fiction / Horror & ghost stories, chillers (Children's / Teenage) / Interest age# from c 8 years / JUVENILE FICTION / Classics
ISBN:	9780241337363
EAN-Code:	9780241337363
Verlag:	Penguin Books
Einband:	Kartoniert
Sprache:	English
Serie:	A Puffin Book
Dimensionen:	H 198 mm / B 129 mm / D 18 mm
Gewicht:	192 gr
Seiten:	272
Zus. Info:	B-format paperback
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Joan Delano Aiken (1924-2004) was the daughter of the American poet, Conrad Aiken. Joan had a variety of jobs, including working for the BBC, the United Nations Information Centre and then as features editor for a short story magazine. Her first children's novel, The Kingdom of the Cave, was published in 1960. Joan Aiken wrote over a hundred books for young readers and adults and is recognized as one of the classic authors of the twentieth century. Her best-known books are those in the James III saga, of which The Wolves of Willoughby Chase was the first title, published in l962 and awarded the Lewis Carroll prize. Both that and Black Hearts in Battersea have been filmed. Her books are internationally acclaimed and she received the Edgar Allan Poe Award in the United States as well as the Guardian Award for Fiction in this country for The Whispering Mountain. In 1999 Joan Aiken was awarded an MBE for her services to children's books.