Rooftoppers
Winner of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize
(Autor) Katherine RundellCELEBRATING 10 HIGH-FLYING YEARS OF THE MULTI-AWARD-WINNING MODERN CLASSIC, FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE EXPLORER __ Winner of the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize and the Blue Peter Book Award Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal __ A brilliant new edition to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Katherine Rundell's modern classic tale of wild hope and thrilling adventure on the rooftops of Paris. This limited edition features the celebratory cover roundel and an extra letter from Katherine Rundell. ___ 'I enjoyed it tremendously ... The next time I go to Paris I will be looking up at the rooftops' - Jacqueline Wilson Everyone tells Sophie that she was orphaned in a shipwreck - found floating in a cello case on the English Channel on her first birthday. But Sophie is convinced her mother also survived. When the Welfare Agency threatens to separate her from her guardian and send her to an orphanage, Sophie takes matters into her own hands, starting with the only clue she has - the address of a cello-maker in Paris. On the run from the authorities, Sophie finds Matteo and his network of rooftoppers - urchins who walk tightropes and live in the sky. In a race across the rooftops of Paris, will they be able to find her mother before it's too late? Hopeful, inspiring and thrilling in equal measure, this is a classic adventure story about pursuing your dreams and never ignoring a possible. 'A writer with an utterly distinctive voice and a wild imagination' - Philip Pullman
Katherine Rundell
Katherine Rundell, born on 10 July 1987, is an English author and academic known for her celebrated children's books and literary contributions. Her book Impossible Creatures was named Book of the Year in 2023. Another notable work, Rooftoppers, won both the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and the Blue Peter Book Award in 2015 and was a Carnegie Medal finalist. Rundell, a Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, has appeared on BBC Radio 4 programs like Start the Week and Poetry Please.
Her other books include The Girl Savage (released as Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms in the U.S.), which won the 2015 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for fiction, The Wolf Wilder, and The Explorer, winner of the 2017 Costa Book Award for children’s books. In 2022, her book Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne won the Baillie Gifford Prize, making her the award’s youngest recipient.
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The Transformations of John Donne - Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2022
