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Noah's Gold Frank Cottrell Boyce

Noah's Gold By Frank Cottrell Boyce

Noah's Gold by Frank Cottrell Boyce


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Noah's Gold is the fabulous novel from the bestselling, multi-award-winning author of Millions, Frank Cottrell-Boyce. Packed with mystery, adventure and laughs, it's perfect for readers of 9+.

Noah's Gold Summary

Noah's Gold by Frank Cottrell Boyce

'Brilliantly entertaining & thought provoking . . . I am in total awe.' David Walliams

'Proper, sparkly, witty, enticing storytelling . . . It's perfect.' Hilary McKay

Packed with mystery, adventure and laughs, Noah's Gold is the exciting novel from the bestselling, multi-award-winning author of Millions and Cosmic, Frank Cottrell-Boyce. Fully illustrated in black and white throughout by Steven Lenton, this is perfect for readers of 9+.


Being the smallest doesn't stop you having the biggest ideas.

Eleven-year old Noah sneaks along on his big sister's geography field trip. Everything goes wrong! Six kids are marooned on an uninhabited island. Their teacher has vanished. They're hungry. Their phones don't work and Noah has broken the internet. There's no way of contacting home . . . Disaster!

Until Noah discovers a treasure map and the gang goes in search of gold.

'A writer of comic genius - he has something of Roald Dahl's magic, but more heart' - Sunday Telegraph

'Joyous writing. Wonderful characters. Authentic humour. Heart & soul. So Much Fun. And, oh, the dialogue! Just love it! Pure class' Jenny Pearson, author of The Super Miraculous Journey of Freddie Yates

Noah's Gold Reviews

Another brilliantly entertaining & thought provoking book from the master storyteller Frank Cottrell-Boyce. Once again I am in total awe. * David Walliams *
Funny, surprising, original, written in texts and letters, with friendly black-and-white illustrations, this is a joyous book about the things that are truly valuable. -- Nicolette Jones * The Sunday Times *
Proper, sparkly, witty, enticing storytelling . . . It's perfect. -- Hilary McKay
A comic novel so light on its feet, it is positively levitating * The Times *
It's a relief to find Frank Cottrell-Boyce cheering us on with his irrepressible boy narrator in Noah's Gold [...] An adventure whose wit and energy recalls E Nesbit's immortal Oswald Bastable, this is an absolute tonic about using your head instead of relying on technology, or adults -- Amanda Craig * New Statesman *
A writer of comic genius - he has something of Roald Dahl's magic, but more heart * Sunday Telegraph *
Joyous writing. Wonderful characters. Authentic humour. Heart & soul. So Much Fun. And, oh, the dialogue! Just love it! Pure class -- Jenny Pearson, author of The Super Miraculous Journey of Freddie Yates
Frank Cottrell-Boyce's stories make you laugh and cry. He's the real deal for children of eight and over. -- Amanda Craig * Guardian *
A laugh-out-loud writer * Guardian *

About Frank Cottrell Boyce

Frank Cottrell-Boyce is an award-winning author and screenwriter. Millions, his debut children's novel, won the CILIP Carnegie Medal. He is also the author of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again, Cosmic, Framed, The Astounding Broccoli Boy and Runaway Robot. His books have been shortlisted for a multitude of prizes, including the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, the Whitbread Children's Fiction Award (now the Costa Book Award) and the Roald Dahl Funny Prize. Sputnik's Guide to Life on Earth was shortlisted for the 2017 CILIP Carnegie Medal and selected for the inaugural WHSmith Tom Fletcher Book Club.

Frank is a judge for the 500 Words competition and the BBC's One Show As You Write It competition. Along with Danny Boyle, he devised the Opening Ceremony for the London 2012 Olympics. He has written for the hit TV series Dr Who and was the screenwriter for the hit film Goodbye Christopher Robin.

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 Head Kid and 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 his own picture book Princess Daisy and the Dragon and the Nincompoop Knights' and his new young fiction series Genie and Teeny.

Additional information

NGR9781529048261
9781529048261
1529048265
Noah's Gold by Frank Cottrell Boyce
New
Hardback
Pan Macmillan
20210513
304
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