Rosa By Starlight

Name: Rosa By Starlight
Brand: Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd
SKU: 9781529074512
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By Hilary McKay

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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, NYT-bestselling author of the Skandar series From the Costa Award-winning author Hilary McKay, comes the story of a young girl looking for magic... Read More

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A magical novella from Hilary McKay, award-winning author of the Casson Family Chronicles and The Skylarks' War.

A magical story of adventures, friendship and courage.

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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, NYT-bestselling author of the Skandar series

From the Costa Award-winning author Hilary McKay, comes the story of a young girl looking for magic in the world, and the feline family who help her to find it. A gorgeous, hardback gift package, highly illustrated by the wonderful 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

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781529074512

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 08 August 2024

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Macmillan Children's Books

Contributors:

Illustrated by Keith Robinson

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 24.0mm

Width: 144.0mm

Height: 226.0mm

Weight: 352g

Pages: 240

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Children's Books Children's Fiction Children’s & Teenage Non-Fiction Children’s, Teenage and Educational Hilary McKay Young Adult

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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