The Explorer [electronic resource]
Rundell, Katherine2017
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Winner of the Children's Book Prize
Winner of the Costa Children's Book Award
Winner of the
London Book Fair Children's Travel Book of the Year
Shortlisted for the Independent Bookshop Week Book Award, Children's category
Longlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal
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From his seat in the tiny aeroplane, Fred watches as the mysteries of the Amazon jungle pass by below him. He has always dreamed of becoming an explorer, of making history and of reading his name amongst the lists of great discoveries. If only he could land and look about him.
As the plane crashes into the canopy, Fred is suddenly left without a choice. He and the three other children may be alive, but the jungle is a vast, untamed place. With no hope of rescue, the chance of getting home feels impossibly small.
Except, it seems, someone has been there before them ...
Main title:
The Explorer [electronic resource] / Katherine Rundell
Author:
Rundell, Katherine, AuthorHorn, Hannah, Illustrator
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
Biography/History:
Katherine Rundell spent her childhood in Africa and Europe. After completing a degree in English and a doctorate on John Donne, she is now a full-time writer and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, where she studies Renaissance literature and climbs old buildings at night. Katherine has won the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and the Blue Peter Book Award and has been shortlisted for many others. In 2017 she was selected as one of Hay Festival's Hay30 influential young thinkers to watch.
ISBN:
9781408854884
Language:
English
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BRN:
2304360