Lilliput
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Andersen Press Ltd
Published:6th Mar '14
Should be back in stock very soon
The brand-new novel from exciting new voice, Sam Gayton. About a very small girl, desperate to find her way home ...
Inspired by Gulliver’s Travels, Lilliput is an exhilarating adventure filled with cunning escape plans, evil clockmakers and very talkative parrots. Join Lily as she travels over rooftops, down chimneys and into chocolate shops on a journey to find the one place in the world where she belongs . .Inspired by Gulliver’s Travels, Lilliput is an exhilarating adventure filled with cunning escape plans, evil clockmakers and very talkative parrots. Join Lily as she travels over rooftops, down chimneys and into chocolate shops on a journey to find the one place in the world where she belongs . . . Home. 'An undertaking of which Swift himself would have approved' Irish Times 'Spirited and clever tribute to the original' Daily Mail
"Spirited and clever tribute to the original" -- Sally Morris * Daily Mail *
"Unlimited storytelling inventiveness . . . Swift himself would have approved." -- Robert Dunbar * Irish Times *
"Sam Gayton brings a lively cast — including a boy rescuer, a chatty parrot and a kind chocolate-shop owner — to the appealing scenario of a tiny person in a giant world." -- Nicolette Jones * Sunday Times *
"Lovely old-fashioned storytelling… this beautifully illustrated book will appeal widely" -- Louise Haines * Guardian *
"Exuberant and imaginative use of language, page-turningly exciting... A very covetable book." * Reading Zone *
- Long-listed for UKLA Book Award (UK).
ISBN: 9781849397483
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 21mm
Weight: 250g
288 pages