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Description
Katya Balen's October, October is a very special new addition to the shelf and deserves classic status - Times Children's Book of the Week
A classic in the making for anyone who ever longed to be WILD.
October and her dad live in the woods. They know the trees and the rocks and the lake and stars like best friends. They live in the woods and they are wild. And that's the way it is.
Until the year October turns eleven. That's the year October rescues a baby owl. It's the year Dad falls out of the biggest tree in their woods. The year the woman who calls herself October's mother comes back. The year everything changes.
Written in Katya Balen's heart-stoppingly beautiful style, this book is a feast for the senses, filled with the woodsmoke smell of crisp autumn mornings and the sound of wellies squelching in river mud. And, as October fights to find the space to be wild in the whirling chaos of the world beyond the woods, it is also a feast for the soul.
Product details
Published | 29 Sep 2020 |
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Format | Paperback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 304 |
ISBN | 9781526620491 |
Imprint | Bloomsbury Children's Books |
Dimensions | 198 x 129 mm |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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Katya Balen's October, October is a very special new addition to the shelf and deserves classic status
Times Children's Book of the Week
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Quite simply one of the most beautiful books I've ever read
Kiran Millwood Hargrave
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October, October is fierce with a wild love. It draws you in to its heart, shakes you with a fury, wraps you in a spell of storytelling. In lyrical prose, Katya Balen gives us a modern day heroine filled with courage. I loved every page.
Jackie Morris
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In October, October the greenwood meets the city. Wise and bright - I loved it.
Hilary McKay, author of The Skylarks' War
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The most wonderful, original treasure of a story
Emma Carroll
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It's EXQUISITE. Read it. Wild yourself. Open your heart to it. Written with the pen of a poet and the soul of Mother Earth. Glorious. It's like nothing else I've ever read.
Liz Hyder, award-winning author of Bearmouth