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Race To The Frozen North: The Matthew Henson Story

Name: Race To The Frozen North: The Matthew Henson Story
SKU: 9781781128404
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By (author) Catherine Johnson, Illustrated by Katie Hickey

€11.20

A thrilling fictionalised account of the life of Matthew Henson, the first African-American man to travel to the North Pole, from the Carnegie-nominated author Catherine Johnson.

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SKU: 9781781128404

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ISBN: 9781781128404

Book Format: Paperback / softback

Pages: 128

Dimensions: 13 × 1 × 19.8 cm

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Interest Age From 9 years
Format Paperback / softback | 128 pages
Dimensions 13 × 1 × 19.8 cm | 220
Publication Date 05 September 2018
Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
Publication City/Country United Kingdom

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About the author

Katie Hickey

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Catherine Johnson is a screenwriter and bestselling author of several books for children and young adults. Shortlisted for the 2020 UKLA Book Awards, Race to the Frozen North is a perennial bestseller with sales of over 40,000 to date. Her acclaimed novel Sawbones won the Young Quills Award for Historical Fiction, and The Curious Tale of the Lady Caraboo was nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal and the YA Book Prize. Catherine is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. || Katie is a freelance illustrator recently graduated from Falmouth University. Having grown up in Cornwall, and also in the middle-east, Katie takes inspiration from her travels and surroundings to create her illustrations. Her work deals with both narrative and information and often combines the two.

Catherine Johnson

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