The Glorious Adventures of the Sunshine Queen - Hardcover

McCaughrean, Geraldine

3.42

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9780062008060: The Glorious Adventures of the Sunshine Queen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0062008064 ISBN 13: 9780062008060

Publisher: Harpercollins Childrens Books, 2011

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[ { By McCaughrean, Geraldine ( Author ) THE GLORIOUS ADVENTURES OF THE SUNSHINE QUEEN May-17-2011 Hardcover } ]

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Review:

"Creating vivid characters is just one of McCaughrean's gifts. Readers will root for Pepper to get the ending he deserves--a happy one."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"[T]horoughly entertaining. It's McCaughrean's way with language that establish[es] this picaresque tale as the latest evidence that she is one of the more remarkable novelists writing for children today."--The Horn Book

"The whole is a more whimsical, French cousin to Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book (2008), with a similar sort of timelessly classic feel."--Booklist (starred review)

"This novel will be savored."--School Library Journal (starred review)

"Cissy is a wonderful creation: inquisitive and adventurous. . . The ensemble cast of characters fairly brims with quirky, original characterization in this warmhearted paean to the milieu of Mark Twain and the tall tales of the American West."--The Horn Book

"Those readers who like their adventures with heavy doses of plot twists and tomfoolery will be smitten."--Kirkus Reviews

"Pirates carouse, boilers explode, gamblers swindle, and Cissy and company meet each encounter with equal parts luck and pluck. McCaughrean invests her characters with humanity and shows a farcical sense for dialogue, while her arch narrative voice, with its theatrical vocabulary and clever turns of phrase, is a delight."--Booklist

Cissy is a wonderful creation: inquisitive and adventurous. . . The ensemble cast of characters fairly brims with quirky, original characterization in this warmhearted paean to the milieu of Mark Twain and the tall tales of the American West. --The Horn Book"

Praise for The Death-Defying Pepper Roux: [A] laugh-out-loud funny, picaresque adventure . . . poignant, odd, wonderfully composed and vastly entertaining. --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"

The whole is a more whimsical, French cousin to Neil Gaiman s The Graveyard Book (2008), with a similar sort of timelessly classic feel. --Booklist (starred review)"

About the Author:

Geraldine McCaughrean is the Printz Award-winning author of The White Darkness. She has been honored with England's most prestigious children's book award, the Carnegie Medal, and is the only three-time winner ever of the Whitbread Children's Book Award. She also wrote Peter Pan in Scarlet, the first official sequel to the treasured masterpiece Peter Pan, and the critically acclaimed The Death-Defying Pepper Roux. Geraldine lives in Berkshire, England, with her husband and actress daughter.

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