Millions
Millions
paperback
Published:
11 July, 2024
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Description
Funny, exciting and brilliantly clever, Frank Cottrell-Boyce's Millions is a fantastic adventure about two boys, one miracle and a million choices. Perfect for boys and girls of 8 to 12.
What would you do with a million pounds? Buy a thousand pizzas? Give it to charity?
When a bag stuffed full of money drops out of the sky, Damian and Anthony find themselves rich. Very rich indeed. Suddenly the brothers can buy anything they want. They've got millions - but only seventeen days to spend it.
An incredible tale of brothers and lots and lots of pizza, Millions won the CILIP Carnegie medal and is celebrating twenty years of bestselling success.
This edition of Frank Cottrell-Boyce's Carnegie Medal-winning Millions features fantastic cover artwork from the brilliant Steven Lenton.
Millions is also a major film directed by Oscar-winner Danny Boyle.
'Fresh, funny, touching and wise' – The Times
Prizes
Winner of The CILIP Carnegie Medal 2004 (UK),Short-listed for Branford Boase Award 2005 (UK)
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781035042517 |
| ISBN10 | 1035042517 |
| Number Of Pages | 288 |
| Item Weight | 200 g |
| Product Dimensions | 131 x 196 x 19 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Pan Macmillan |
| Format | paperback |
Media Reviews
Damian's voice leaps off the page and into your heart. Millions is fresh, funny, touching and wise. * The Times *
Deliciously funny * Guardian *
Pure gold * Scotsman *
Written with charm and humour, this is a touching, absorbing oddity of a book about love, grief, avarice and generosity. * Sunday Times *
Packed with wisdom and humor, this is one of the books that showed me how it was done when I was starting out -- Ben Davis, author of the Soup Movement
a joyous romp of a story that has takes young readers across the gamut of emotions. * Good Housekeeping - Top 50 Books Every Child Should Read *
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Author's Bio
Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Children's Laureate 2024–2026, is a multi award-winning children’s book author and screenwriter. He loves magic. He tries his best with playing cards, rabbits and top hats but is happiest playing with the magic of words. He’s written many award-winning children’s books including Millions, Cosmic and Noah’s Gold. He’s also written films - including Millions, and Kensuke’s Kingdom - and helped create big events like the 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony. He lives by the sea in Liverpool. On a clear day he can see Blackpool Tower from the end of his road. On cloudy days he worries that it might have disappeared.
Steven Lenton is a multi-award-winning illustrator, originally from Cheshire, now working from his studios in Brighton and London with his dog, Big Eared Bob. He has illustrated many children's books including How To Grow A Unicorn by Rachel Morrisroe, The Taylor Turbochaser by David Baddiel, The Hundred And One Dalmatians adapted by Peter Bently, the Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam series by Tracey Corderoy and the Sainsbury's Prize-winning The Nothing To See Here Hotel series written by Steven Butler. He has illustrated two World Book Day titles and regularly appears at literary festivals and live events across the UK. Steven has his own Draw-along YouTube channel, showing how to draw a range of his characters. He has also written the multi award-nominated young fiction series Genie and Teeny.