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The Comet

Joe Todd-Stanton author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Flying Eye Books

Published:3rd Mar '22

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The beautiful and thought-provoking new book from the award-winning, internationally best-selling picture book creator Joe Todd-Stanton.

The beautiful and thought-provoking new book from the award-winning, internationally best-selling picture creator Joe Todd Stanton - author of The Secret of Black Rock, which won the Waterstones Children's Book Prize.When Nyla has to leave her home in the countryside to start life again in the city, all she can think about is everything she misses from before. So when a comet comes crashing through the city streets and starts to glow and grow, Nyla can't resist a chance to head somewhere that feels closer to what she had before . but what starts as an escape could be just the thing to make her finally feel at home. From the award-winning Joe Todd-Stanton, comes an exquisite and heartfelt picture book touching on the bewildering experience of moving house. This beautiful story explores how this can affect a child's sense of belonging, but also how it can open them up to new and wonderful experiences.

A luminously beautiful picture book, full of bittersweet farewell feelings, about learning to welcome the new. * The Guardian *
A breathtakingly intricate picture book with so much to discover on every page. -- Briony May Smith
A beautiful book -- Claire Cavanagh, BBC Radio Bristol

ISBN: 9781838740658

Dimensions: unknown

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32 pages