Editions

Cloud Busting

  • Imprint: Yearling

  • ISBN: 9780440866152

  • Length: 176  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 12mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 127g

  • RRP: £6.99

Cloud Busting

  • Puffin Poetry

Davey is the new boy in class and Sam can't stand him. He thinks Davey is a Grade A moron. But when the two are thrown together Sam discovers that Davey's eccentric way of looking at the world makes life a lot more fun. Until the day something terrible happens...

A funny and sad story, told completely in verse.

  • Imprint: Yearling

  • ISBN: 9780440866152

  • Length: 176  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 12mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 127g

  • RRP: £6.99

Reviews

  • Malorie Blackman is acknowledged as one of today's most imaginative and convincing writers

    Book Trust

  • One of the most original and moving books of the year . . . an absolutely remarkable book

    Daily Mail

  • Inspired writing . . . it flows like melted butter and glistens as it goes . . . Blackman knows her verse forms and uses them to brilliant effect

    Guardian

  • It is funny and poignant and Blackman's use of language is wonderfully economic. This is a masterpiece of writing and a book for all ages

    TES

  • It soon develops into a cautionary tale about the way that both a friendship and a child's originality is destroyed by peer pressure. What makes it even more unusual is that it is told out of the mind of the boy who brought about the destruction. Blackman threads humour into the tragedy and (just) succeeds in giving us something to hope for

    Independent

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About the Author

Malorie Blackman

Malorie Blackman has written over seventy books for children and young adults, including the Noughts & Crosses series, Thief and a science-fiction thriller, Chasing the Stars. Many of her books have also been adapted for stage and television, including a BAFTA-award-winning BBC production of Pig-Heart Boy and a Pilot Theatre stage adaptation by Sabrina Mahfouz of Noughts & Crosses. There is also a major BBC production of Noughts & Crosses, with Roc Nation (Jay-Z’s entertainment company) curating the soundtrack as executive music producer. In 2005 Malorie was honoured with the Eleanor Farjeon Award in recognition of her distinguished contribution to the world of children’s books. In 2008 she received an OBE for her services to children’s literature, and between 2013 and 2015 she was the Children’s Laureate. Most recently Malorie wrote for the Doctor Who series on BBC One, and the fifth novel in her Noughts & Crosses series, Crossfire, was published by Penguin Random House Children’s in summer 2019.

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Events

Feminist Fairy Tales: with Malorie Blackman, Kamila Shamsie, Rebecca Solnit and Jeanette Winterson, 23rd November
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Features

How Malorie Blackman tackles Brexit and Trump in ‘Crossfire’

The enduring appeal of the Noughts and Crosses series.
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Events

Malorie Blackman: Crossfire, 31st August - 6th October 2019

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