The Rain Door
Author(s): Russell Hoban
This is a young boy's fantastic and fantastical trip of discovery beyond the real world...with a horn that goes GAHOOGA! One hot summer Thursday, Harry meets the rag-and-bone man and his horse, and follows them through the rain door - to a whole other world behind the weather. When Harry hears a lion roar, he wants to get home as fast as he can...but that turns out to be easier said than done. After an exciting adventure involving a home-made dinosaur and a sky-high flight through the mother of all thunderstorms, will Harry manage to escape the thundering lion and get back home? This is Russell Hoban and Quentin Blake at their most atmospheric and wildly imaginative. It is a long-awaited reissue of an irresistible classic, featuring a horse called Lightning and a clockwork dinosaur. It has vast appeal to young boys, middle-aged-boy dads and old-boy book-buying grandfathers alike.
PUBLICATION APRIL 2014
Product Information
Russell Hoban is the author of many famous novels, including Turtle Diary and Riddley Walker, which won the John W. Campbell Award for science fiction. He also wrote over 50 children's books, including such classics as The Mouse and His Child, The Sea-Thing Child and, most recently, Rosie's Magic Horse. Born in Pennsylvania in 1925, he moved in 1969 to London, where he lived until his death in 2011. Quentin Blake is one of the world's foremost illustrators, particularly renowned for his collaboration with writers such as Russell Hoban, Michael Rosen, Joan Aiken and Roald Dahl. His books have won numerous awards, including the Whitbread Prize, the Kate Greenaway Medal and the Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration. In 1999 he was appointed the first Children's Laureate, in 2005 was created a CBE and in 2013 received a knighthood for his services to illustration. He lives in London.
General Fields
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- : Walker Books Ltd
- : Walker Books Ltd
- : 01 March 2014
- : 245mm X 260mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Russell Hoban
- : Paperback
- : Quentin Blake
- : 813.54
- : 32