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An immensely satisfying story, it demonstrates the very best writing for developing readers. This perceptive, drily comic book is a gem. The Sunday Telegraph; Very good on school lore and superstition. The Times Educational Supplement. Jan Mark has a talent for finding an everyday, identifiable situation and building a story around it. Child Education, Best Books 2000.

Jan Mark is one of the most acclaimed authors of books for young people and has twice been awarded the Carnegie Medal. For Walker she has written the picture books Fur; Strat and Chatto (Winner of the 1990 Mother Goose Award), The Tale of Tobias, God's Story and This Bowl of Earth, as well as the young fiction Sprinters The Snow Maze and Taking the Cat's Way Home. Paul Howard has illustrated numerous children's books, including The Bravest Ever Bear; Mockingbird; John Joe and the Big Hen; The Year in the City (Winner of the Primary English Book Award); Classic Poetry, An Illustrated Collection; Care of Henry and Taking the Cat's Way Home.