Corpse Talk: Dead Good Storytellers
Published on 4. February 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
128 pages
978-1-78845-125-3 (ISBN)
Description
Adam himself interviews the dead famous who made names for themselves in history by creating the greatest and most ground-breaking works of fiction ever - many you'll have heard of, and many you should have heard of! And then discover their most famous stories - as told in the inimitable Corpse Talk style!
Let William Shakespeare keep you on the edge of your seat with Macbeth, Charles Dickens thrill you in Great Expectations, and Mary Shelley send shivers up your spine in Frankenstein. Learn about the greatest stories ever told, and the people who made them up!
Let William Shakespeare keep you on the edge of your seat with Macbeth, Charles Dickens thrill you in Great Expectations, and Mary Shelley send shivers up your spine in Frankenstein. Learn about the greatest stories ever told, and the people who made them up!
Reviews / Votes
Corpse Talk is funny, it's entertaining, it's educational and information packed. What more could you possibly want? * Forbidden Planet * Funny and informative . . . there's a lot of humour here, there's plenty of information and context, too - both of which are key first steps towards a child's historical understanding * Telegraph * I love Corpse Talk. Ingenious and funny and unfailingly fascinating. Brilliant stuff * Philip Pullman *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
David Fickling Books
Target group
Children/juvenile
Interest Age: From 9 to 11 years
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
278 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78845-125-3 (9781788451253)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Adam and Lisa Murphy are a husband and wife team who live and work in Glasgow. Their Corpse Talk comic series was originally published in The Phoenix comic, and has now been collected and published as a series including Ground-Breaking Scientists; Ground-Breaking Women; Ground-Breaking Rebels and Queens and Kings and Other Royal Rotters. Adam and Lisa also co-created the Lost Tales comic series which was nominated for a Blue Peter Book Award, and won the British Comics Awards Young People's category in 2016.