Thornhill
Thornhill
hardback
Published:
24 August, 2017
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Description
Prizes
Winner of British Book Design and Production Awards 2018,Commended for Oxfordshire Book Awards 2018,Short-listed for Kate Greenaway Medal 2018,Short-listed for Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2018 (UK),Short-listed for Leeds Book Awards 2018,Short-listed for British Book Design and Production Awards 2018,Long-listed for UKLA Book Awards 2019
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781910200612 |
| ISBN10 | 1910200611 |
| Number Of Pages | 544 |
| Item Weight | 1030 g |
| Product Dimensions | 155 x 220 x 40 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | David Fickling Books |
| Format | hardback |
Media Reviews
Pam Smy has created a wonderful piece of work in Thornhill. The drawings are full of atmosphere, the words are full of tension and emotion all the more powerful for being so sparingly revealed. This is in one sense a classic English lonely-child-and-garden story, in the tradition of Frances Hodgson Burnett and Philippa Pearce; in another it's a ghost story; in another it pays tribute to the dark-sinister-house genre most famously seen in Hitchcock's Psycho. But it's also a story of friendship and courage and of the power of black-and-white images. I think it's terrific * Philip Pullman *
A rule breaker . . . an unsettling, deeply memorable read * Guardian *
Astonishing . . . filmic, atmospheric and suspenseful * Sunday Times *
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Author's Bio
Pam Smy studied Illustration at Anglia Ruskin University, going on to complete the MA Children's Book Illustration in 2004. She combines her role as lecturer in illustration with illustrating fiction. Pam lives in Cambridge.