Michael Morpurgo |
HarperCollins |
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Oct 2005 |
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Arthur Hobhouse, an orphan shipped to Australia when he was six years old, has only one link with his past: a small key on a piece of string, given to him by his sister Kitty. He has no idea what it is for and no clear memory of his only living relative, but he treasures it. Arthur dies never knowing if his sister ever really existed, but his daughter Allie sails across the world, all alone in the boat he built for her, to find out. |
Monthly Archives: December 2006
Playtime
Kate Petty |
Frances Lincoln |
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Sep 2006 |
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Although cultural constructions of the child vary and ‘ at times – collide, where the ‘Around the World’ series succeeds is in laying out the shared common ground that unites these constructions, regardless of geographical location, of background economic vitality etc. |