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Rosa By Starlight
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A star-filled story of courage, belonging and the particular magic of feline friends. A treasure of a tale, beautifully told. - A.F. Steadman, author of the Skandar series From the Costa Award-winning author of The Skylarks' War comes Rosa by Starlight by Hilary McKay, the story...
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Rosa By Starlight
A magical, heartbreaking novella from Hilary McKay, award-winning author of the Casson Family Chronicles and The Skylarks' War. Gorgeously illustrated throughout by Keith Robinson.
A magical, heartbreaking novella from Hilary McKay, award-winning author of the Casson Family Chronicles and The Skylarks' War. Gorgeously illustrated throughout by Keith Robinson.
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A star-filled story of courage, belonging and the particular magic of feline friends. A treasure of a tale, beautifully told. - A.F. Steadman, author of the Skandar series
From the Costa Award-winning author of The Skylarks' War comes Rosa by Starlight by Hilary McKay, the story of a young girl looking for magic in the world, and the feline family who help her to find it. With gorgeous black and white illustrations by Keith Robinson.
Rosa lives in a world where she discovers there is magic. It arrives with Balthazar, a large black cat, just when she needs it most. Even so, it takes all her courage to stay hopeful and adventurous when her dreadful aunt and uncle move into her life.
And when she finds herself abandoned in the ancient city of Venice, can magic help her then? Perhaps it can.
The stars are watching, and there are lots of cats in Venice . . .
Beautiful, captivating, such a joy to read I didn't want it to end! - Sophie Anderson, bestselling author of The House with Chicken Legs and The Snow Girl
A charming Ghibli-esque tale of a girl whose only friends are cats. Surprising and magical in equal measures. - M. G. Leonard, bestselling author of The Adventure on Trains Series, The Twitchers series, and The Ice Children
Hilary McKay won the Costa Children's Book Award in 2018 with The Skylarks' War
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781529074581
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 10 July 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Macmillan Children's Books
Contributors:
- Illustrated by Keith Robinson
Audience: Children
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 15.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 196.0mm
Weight: 172g
Pages: 240
About the Author
Hilary McKay won the Costa Children's Book Award for The Skylarks' War, the Guardian Fiction Prize for The Exiles, and the Smarties and the Whitbread Award for The Exiles in Love and Saffy's Angel respectively. She is also the author of Straw Into Gold, A Time of Green Magic and The Swallows' Flight, a companion novel to The Skylarks' War, among many critically-acclaimed titles. Hilary studied Botany and Zoology at the University of St Andrews, and worked as a biochemist before the draw of the pen became too strong and she decided to become a full-time writer. Hilary lives in Derbyshire with her family.
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