Withering-by-Sea 10th Anniversary Edition (Stella Montgomery, #1)

Name: Withering-by-Sea 10th Anniversary Edition (Stella Montgomery, #1)
Brand: ABC Books
SKU: 9780733343797
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By Judith Rossell

Series: Stella Montgomery

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WINNER ABIA BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR YOUNGER READERS 'Fans of Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events will eat up Withering-by-Sea'-- Shelf Awareness High on a cliff above the gloomy coastal town of Withering-by-Sea stands the Hotel Majestic. Inside the walls of the damp, dull... Read More

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Withering-by-Sea 10th Anniversary Edition (Stella Montgomery, #1)

$19⁹⁹

Withering-by-Sea 10th Anniversary Edition (Stella Montgomery, #1)

Description

WINNER ABIA BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR YOUNGER READERS

'Fans of Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events will eat up Withering-by-Sea'
-- Shelf Awareness

High on a cliff above the gloomy coastal town of Withering-by-Sea stands the Hotel Majestic. Inside the walls of the damp, dull hotel, eleven-year-old orphan Stella Montgomery leads a miserable life with her three dreadful Aunts.

But one night, Stella sees something she shouldn't have... Something that will set in motion an adventure more terrifying and more wonderful than she could ever have hoped for...

Discover the series that's loved by tens of thousands of readers!

MORE PRAISE

'The perfect package -- appearance and feel and smell and story.' -- Glenda Millard

'Wildly imaginative, darkly funny. I was hooked from the first page.' -- Jen Storer

'A delightful, thoroughly enjoyable book' -- Books+Publishing

MORE AWARDS

Withering-by-Sea (Book 1)

Winner - 2015 Indie Awards, Book of the Year: Children's & YA
Winner - 2015 Australian Book Industry Awards, Book of the Year: Older Children
Winner - 2015 Davitt Awards
Honour Book - 2015 Children's Book Council of Australia Awards
Shortlisted - 2015 Prime Minister's Literary Awards
Shortlisted - 2014 Aurealis Awards
Shortlisted - 2017 Australian Book Design Awards

Wormwood Mire (Book 2)

Winner - 2017 Davitt Awards
Shortlisted - 2017 Indie Awards, Book of the Year: Children's & YA
Shortlisted - 2017 Australian Book Industry Awards, Book of the Year: Older Children
Shortlisted - 2017 ABA Booksellers' Choice Award
Shortlisted - 2017 Australian Book Design Awards
Notable Book - 2017 Children's Book Council of Australia Awards

Series: Stella Montgomery

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Withering-by-Sea 10th Anniversary Edition (Stella Montgomery, #1)

By Judith Rossell

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780733343797

Publisher: ABC Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 04 December 2024

Country: Australia

Imprint: ABC Books

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 199g

Pages: 272

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Children's Books Featured Books Judith Rossell New at Book Hero Series: Stella Montgomery

About the Author

Judith Rossell is the multi-award-winning author-illustrator of the bestselling Stella Montgomery series (Withering-by-Sea, Wormwood Mire, Wakestone Hall and A Garden of Lilies: Improving Tales for Young Minds). Before beginning her career in children's books, Judith worked as a government scientist (not a mad scientist, a normal kind of scientist) and also for a cotton-spinning company (that made threads for T-shirts and denim jeans and mops and teabag strings). Judith has written thirteen books and illustrated more than eighty. Her work has been published in the US and UK, and translated into more than twenty languages. Judith lives in Melbourne, Australia with a cat the size of a walrus. www.judithrossell.com