A Box of Nothing (PDF)
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For one young boy, a box full of nothing is a ticket to adventure
While skipping school, James sees his mother on the street. He ducks inside an abandoned store, where an aged shopkeeper asks what he wants to buy. When James says...
While skipping school, James sees his mother on the street. He ducks inside an abandoned store, where an aged shopkeeper asks what he wants to buy. When James says...
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For one young boy, a box full of nothing is a ticket to adventure
While skipping school, James sees his mother on the street. He ducks inside an abandoned store, where an aged shopkeeper asks what he wants to buy. When James says “nothing,” the old man sells it to him: a heavy cardboard box stuffed full of top-quality nothing. James tries to explain this to his mother, but she doesn’t believe him and throws the box over the fence and into the dump. He sneaks in to retrieve his new possession—and finds himself trapped in another world.
The dump is an eerie place populated by hyperintelligent rats, monstrous seagulls, and a very clever pile of garbage called the Burra. Once it was a thriving community, but something strange has happened, and the dump has become stuck in time. To get back home, James must help the Burra save the dump—using all the nothing he can find.
This ebook features an illustrated personal history of Peter Dickinson including rare images from the author’s collection.
While skipping school, James sees his mother on the street. He ducks inside an abandoned store, where an aged shopkeeper asks what he wants to buy. When James says “nothing,” the old man sells it to him: a heavy cardboard box stuffed full of top-quality nothing. James tries to explain this to his mother, but she doesn’t believe him and throws the box over the fence and into the dump. He sneaks in to retrieve his new possession—and finds himself trapped in another world.
The dump is an eerie place populated by hyperintelligent rats, monstrous seagulls, and a very clever pile of garbage called the Burra. Once it was a thriving community, but something strange has happened, and the dump has become stuck in time. To get back home, James must help the Burra save the dump—using all the nothing he can find.
This ebook features an illustrated personal history of Peter Dickinson including rare images from the author’s collection.
Autoren-Porträt von Peter Dickinson
<DIV>Peter Dickinson was born in Africa but raised and educated in England. From 1952 to 1969 he was on the editorial staff of <I>Punch</I>, and since then has earned his living writing fiction of various kinds for children and adults. His books have been published in several languages throughout the world.<BR /><BR /> The recipient of many awards, Dickinson has been shortlisted nine times for the prestigious Carnegie Medal for children’s literature and was the first author to win it twice. The author of twenty-one crime and mystery novels for adults, Dickinson was also the first to win the Gold Dagger of the Crime Writers’ Association for two books running: <I>The Glass-Sided Ants’ Nest</I> (1968) and <I>The Old English Peepshow</I> (1969).<BR /><BR /> A collection of Dickinson’s poetry, <I>The Weir</I>, was published in 2007. His latest book, <I>In the Palace of the Khans</I>, was published in 2012 and was nominated for the Carnegie Medal.<BR /><BR /> Dickinson has served as chairman of the Society of Authors and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2009 for services to literature.</DIV>
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Peter Dickinson
- Altersempfehlung: 4 - 6 Jahre
- 2015, 105 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Open Road Media Teen & Tween
- ISBN-10: 1504014960
- ISBN-13: 9781504014960
- Erscheinungsdatum: 16.06.2015
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“A dazzling story . . . Subtle, intelligent and, most of all, fun.” —Publishers Weekly“A stimulating, multi-layered story, fast moving and pleasantly free of long explanations.” —School Library Journal
“One of the real masters of children’s literature.” —Philip Pullman
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