Maphead 2 - Softcover

Howarth Lesley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0744554950 ISBN 13: 9780744554953

Publisher: Walker Books Ltd, 1998

Synopsis

If you could go anywhere - do anything - where would you go? What would you do? This is the dilemma facing MapHead on his return to Rubytown from his home in the Subtle World. This is the sequel to the award-winning "MapHead" about a boy with powers to flash maps across his head.

About this title

Review

"Readers of MapHead will be delighted with this sequel." Julia Eccleshare, The Bookseller; "A story full of charm and humour." The Daily Mail; "An ingenious, multi-faceted novel, shot through with humanity and tenderness." Books for Keeps; A follow-up to the Guardian Children's Fiction Award Winner, MapHead."

About the Author

Lesley Howarth's first book, The Flower King, was shortlisted for both the 1993 Whitbread Children's Novel Award and the Guardian Children's Fiction Award. It was followed by MapHead, which won the 1995 Guardian Children's Fiction Award and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal, the WH Smith Mind Boggling Books Award, the Writers' Guild Children's Book Award and Young Telegraph's Book of the Year. Weather Eye, her third novel, won the Smarties Book Prize (9 - 11 Category) and was followed in 1996 by The Pits. Her other titles include Paulina, Mister Spaceman and a story for younger readers, Fort Biscuit. Lesley Howarth and her husband have three daughters and have lived in Cornwall for over twenty years.

Edition details

• Publisher: Walker Books Ltd
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0744554950
• ISBN 13: 9780744554953
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 222