THE KITES ARE FLYING!
by MORPURGO**, MICHAEL:
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- FINE./FINE.
- ISBN 10
- 1406317985
- ISBN 13
- 9781406317985
- Seller
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About This Item
UK,slim 12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 10 - 1 descending.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn but price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,matt,wrap-around colour pictorial artwork,by Laura Carlin, illustrated dw/dj,with black,brown and blue lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present. Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners, appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original paper-covered wrap-around colour pictorial artwork illustrated boards with brown+ black lettering to spine/backstrip, and blue+white illustrated endpapers.A production fault - vertical wrinkles to front board's exterior front vertical edge.UK,slim 12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,5-76pp [paginated] includes story told over 4 days in diary form, profuse mixture of border edge,part-page,single,double-page colour illustrations - all by Laura Carlin - throughout the text and the book,plus an afterword by Jeremy Bowen (television reporter).
A television reporter's extraordinary experience in the West Bank reveals how children's hopes and dreams for peace can fly higher than any wall dividing communities and religions.Journalist Max and his new friend Said sit together under an ancient olive tree while Said makes another of his kites.As Max is welcomed as a guest in Said's family home,he learns of the terrible events in the family's past - but nothing prepares him for the true importance of Said's kites.Told from both Max's and Said's points of view,this beautiful tale of tragedy and hope rings with joy. Laura Carlin is a graduate of the Royal College of Art and the illustrator of Sonya Hartnett's 'The Silver Donkey'. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices, weight allowances, dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too!
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- Bookseller
- R. J. A. PAXTON-DENNY. (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- rja681517
- Title
- THE KITES ARE FLYING!
- Author
- MORPURGO**, MICHAEL:
- Illustrator
- illus by Laura Carlin.
- Book Condition
- Used - FINE.
- Jacket Condition
- FINE.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- UK,slim 12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1406317985
- ISBN 13
- 9781406317985
- Publisher
- LONDON.WALKER BOOKS LTD,2009.
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 2009-11
- Keywords
- q52.CHILDRENS/ILLUSTRATED.UK,slim 12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.ISBN 9781406317985.Michael Morpurgo_Children's Laureate_2003-2005.Butterfly Lion.Wreck of the Zanzibar.Illustrator_Laura Carlin_The Silver Donkey.Books new,used,signed,rare.
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