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The Oldest Girl in the World
Carol Ann Duffy
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Description for The Oldest Girl in the World
Paperback. In Duffy's second collection for children, we are trained by the oldest girl in the world to be alert to every one of our senses. Meet a bad princess, and a king of snide, discover spells to get rid of unwanted pests, and learn that transformation is a way of life. Illustrator(s): Prachaticka, Marketa. Num Pages: 96 pages, 50 b&w line drawings. BIC Classification: 5AF; YQE. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 196 x 128 x 7. Weight in Grams: 117.
In the tradition of the great and enduring writers for children, Carol Ann Duffy creates a living and breathing world, imaginatively self-sufficient, yet recognisable as one that hovers at the edges of our dreams and nightmares. In her second collection for children, we are trained by the oldest girl in the world to be alert to every one of our senses; meet, among others, a bad princess and a king of snide; discover spells to get rid of unwanted pests; and learn that, in a world where transformation is a way of life, what we want is not always what ... Read more
In the tradition of the great and enduring writers for children, Carol Ann Duffy creates a living and breathing world, imaginatively self-sufficient, yet recognisable as one that hovers at the edges of our dreams and nightmares. In her second collection for children, we are trained by the oldest girl in the world to be alert to every one of our senses; meet, among others, a bad princess and a king of snide; discover spells to get rid of unwanted pests; and learn that, in a world where transformation is a way of life, what we want is not always what ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Faber and Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571205769
SKU
V9780571205769
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About Carol Ann Duffy
Carol Ann Duffy was born in Glasgow and grew up in Stafford. She won the 1993 Whitbread Award for Poetry and the Forward Prize for Best Collection for Mean Time. The World's Wife received the E. M. Forster Award in America, while Rapture won the T. S. Eliot Prize 2005. She is currently Professor of Contemporary Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan ... Read more
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