The House with Chicken Legs
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The House with Chicken Legs by Sophie Anderson
Marinka dreams of a normal life, but her house has chicken legs and moves on without warning. For Marinka's grandmother is Baba Yaga, who guides spirits between this world and the next. Marinka longs to change her destiny and sets out to break free from her grandmother's footsteps, but her house has other ideas...This original debut takes a poignant, philosophical look at predestination and free choice, and features delectable food descriptions, cheeky jackdaws and a frolicking lamb* The Guardian *
A magical tale… a captivating and original retelling of a traditional story straight out of folklore. Beautiful escapism. * Sunday Express S Magazine *
Enticing, a little bit dangerous, and thrumming with possibilities. * Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The Girl of Ink and Stars *
While it plays, elegantly and surprisingly warmly, with the idea of death, Anderson’s book is rich with the tastes, smells and sensations of life, from the flavour of borscht to the sounds of violins * Times Literary Supplement *
Sophie Anderson (Author)
Sophie Anderson was born in Swansea, and now lives in the Lake District with her family. Her writing is most often inspired by folk and fairy stories, especially the Slavic tales her Prussian grandmother told her when she was young.
Across her bestselling novels, Sophie has won the Independent Bookshop Book of the Year Award and the Wales Book of the Year Award, and been shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal twice, the Waterstones Children's Book Prize, the Blue Peter Book Award, the British Book Awards' Children's Fiction Book of the Year, the Andersen Prize, and the Branford Boase Award.
Sophie's books have been translated into over twenty-five languages, and The House with Chicken Legs has been adapted for stage by Les Enfants Terribles.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781474940665 |
| ISBN 10 | 1474940668 |
| Title | The House with Chicken Legs |
| Author | Sophie Anderson |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Usborne Publishing Ltd |
| Year published | 2018-05-03 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Prizes | Winner of Junior Design Awards 2018, Winner of The Reading Agency's Summer Reading Challenge 2017, Winner of Doncaster Book Award 2018, Short-listed for The CILIP Carnegie Medal 2019, Short-listed for Blue Peter Book Awards 2018, Short-listed for Northern Ireland Book Award 2019, Short-listed for Leeds Book Award 2019, Short-listed for The Branford Boase Award 2019, Short-listed for Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2019, Short-listed for Stockport Children's Book Award 2018 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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