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Sailing Boat In The Sky
  • Imprint: Red Fox

  • Published: 01/05/2003

  • ISBN: 9780099439592

  • Length: 48  Pages

  • Dimensions: 255mm x 5mm x 255mm

  • Weight: 282g

  • RRP: £9.99

Sailing Boat In The Sky

Quentin Blake

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While walking along the beach one day, Isobel and Nicholas discover a strange looking wreck. As they begin to put it together they find it is a peculiar sort of sailing boat. They clamber in, and so begins their great adventure. Aided by a wounded stork, they sail through the sky encountering scenes of despair and devastation, and set about righting some of the wrongs in the world. At each place they stop to help, and soon the boat is full with all their new friends - a bullied girl, a weak child worker, a boy, rescued from a polluted city, a mother and baby saved from a war zone. But this all takes its toll on the boat, and they have to find a safe place to land, where they can all work together to build a bigger and better sailing boat and continue on their humanitarian mission.

  • Imprint: Red Fox

  • Published: 01/05/2003

  • ISBN: 9780099439592

  • Length: 48  Pages

  • Dimensions: 255mm x 5mm x 255mm

  • Weight: 282g

  • RRP: £9.99


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About the Author

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Quentin Blake (Author, Illustrator) Quentin Blake has been drawing ever since he can remember. He taught illustration for over twenty years at the Royal College of Art, of which he is an honorary professor. He has won many prizes, including the Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration, the Eleanor Farjeon Award and the Kate Greenaway Medal, and in 1999 he was appointed the first Children’s Laureate. In the 2013 New Year’s Honours List he was knighted for services to illustration. 

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