Out of the Clouds
Published on 5. May 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-1-4449-2477-0 (ISBN)
Description
From the Costa award-winning author of Harvey Angell comes the perfect book for fathers and sons to share - and for anyone who has ever been part of a crazy but loveable family.
Oliver Coggin lives with his chaotic family in Dizzy Perch, a crazy house on top of a mountain somewhere remote in Scotland. With Pa away - on mysterious but exciting scientific research - Oliver keeps the household going. Not that everyone always listens to what he has to say. Or appreciates him. But what does Oliver want himself? He'd like to escape the house sometimes. He'd like a friend, like the new boy he sees in the village. Most of all, he'd like to understand why his father went away. And where's he's gone. So Oliver sets out on a long journey to get Pa back.
Oliver Coggin lives with his chaotic family in Dizzy Perch, a crazy house on top of a mountain somewhere remote in Scotland. With Pa away - on mysterious but exciting scientific research - Oliver keeps the household going. Not that everyone always listens to what he has to say. Or appreciates him. But what does Oliver want himself? He'd like to escape the house sometimes. He'd like a friend, like the new boy he sees in the village. Most of all, he'd like to understand why his father went away. And where's he's gone. So Oliver sets out on a long journey to get Pa back.
Reviews / Votes
A heart-warming story by award-winning Diana Hendry about a boy who is missing his father and has quite an adventure trying to find him. * Book Trust * A heart-warming story by award-winning Diana Hendry about a boy who is missing his father and has quite an adventure trying to find him. * Book Trust * A heart-warming family story with a mystery that will keep you reading until the very end * The List * A heart-warming family story with a mystery that will keep you reading until the very end * The List * A sweet, traditional story. * Bookwitch *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Hachette Children's Group
Target group
Children/juvenile
Interest Age: From 9 to 12 years
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 197 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
161 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4449-2477-0 (9781444924770)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Diana Hendry
Out of the Clouds
E-Book
05/2016
1st Edition
Hodder Children's Books
€3.99
Available for download
Person
Diana Hendry lives in Edinburgh, and is well-connected on the literary scene. Her picture book, The Very Noisy Night, was adapted into a show by Blunderbus Theatre Company. She has given readings, poetry readings, workshops and talks to children and adults at numerous festivals throughout the UK including Cheltenham, Edinburgh, Dead Good Poets, Liverpool and Wigtown Book Festival and she has visited schools all around the country from Devon to the Shetlands. She relates to children and teenagers (and adults) with just the right mix of seriousness and fun and they appreciate her dry, mischievous sense of humour.