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Description: ISBN 0140383654 / Author: Andrew Norriss / Genre: Junior Books / Winner of the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year Award 1997 / While ... more Newest Review: ... But, as they don't happen to live in a quarry in the Peaks, but somewhere else in the East Midlands (yay!) they have the ... more |
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Format: Paperback, ISBN: 9781408106945
Pages: 96, Paperback, A & C Black Publishers Ltd - Books/Subjects ... |
£ 6.39 |
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by theediscerning - written on 15.10.02 (Very useful, 197 readings)
Rating:
In theediscerning's sypathetic - and slow-moving - campaign to op many of the books no-one has bothered with before, he has here found a little treasure. Of course he is not of the target age-group for the book, but he enjoyed it, and even on his plot summary the soon-to-be-Mrs theediscerning was interested. Aquila won the 1997 Whitbread kiddies' Book Prize, and was subsequently televised by the BBC. Both are understandable, but perhaps less so it how the special FX necessary were done on children's tele budgets, and how they managed to pan it out into 13 episodes... Tom Baxter and Geoff Reynolds are the obligatory loveable rogues, doing a ...
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