I loved everything about it from the title to the magnificent white bear to the enchanted castle to the powerful North, South, East and West Winds. I loved reading, especially fairy tales, and one day inside a battered book with a blue cover I discovered a tale that cast a spell on me. My own journey to the land that lies east of the sun and west of the moon began when I was a little girl. North Child was shortlisted for the Ottakar’s Children’s Book Prize. She also travelled to Norway through the fjords by ship to get first hand experience. Introducing the MIT Walker Collection - bringing innovative new STEAM books written by expertsĮdith Pattou wrote her first story at the age of eight, The Adventures of Lipid Shortstock, which followed the adventures of a swashbuckling squirrel! Since then Edith has published two highly acclaimed fantasy novels in the United States: Hero’s Song, an International Reading Association Young Adult’s Choice, and Fire Arrow, a Booklist Top Ten Fantasy Novel of the Year.Įdith has always been a great lover of fantasy stories and their ability to whisk the reader away to magical lands, and came to write North Child after falling in love with the Norwegian fairy tale East of the Sun and West of the Moon.Įdith became an expert in many different fields whilst writing North Child- weaving, compasses, mapmaking, seamanship, Scandinavian languages, Norse mythology, everything to do with the Arctic and of course polar bears, which were hard as Edith’s local zoo didn’t have any polar bears.25 books about the outdoors to inspire your green-fingered kids for National Gardening Week.Announcing the Children's and Young Adult Jhalak Prize Shortlist.Empathy Day steps up a gear as it returns for its seventh year – at a time of great need.
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