Mirrors: Sparkling new stories from prize-winning authors

Description

Specially commissioned short stories, by prize-winning authors, on the theme of Mirrors. READERSHIP: 10 - 14 A collection of new , specially commissioned short stories by some of the finest authors of children's books today: Anne Fine, Berlie Doherty, Leslie Howarth, Mary Arrigan, Gaye Hicilmaz, Jeremy Strong, Malorie Blackman, Elizabeth Laird , Melvin Burgess, Celia Rees, Kate Thompson, Paul Stewart, Vivian French, Alan Durant, Annie Dalton in range of genres - humour, horror, fantasy, traditional, realism and romance. The collection is aimed at good readers between 10 and 14, and the strength of the stories combined with the excellence of their authors will be certainly be welcomed by teachers, librarians and parents. Edited by Wendy Cooling, a well-known and highly respected figure in the world of education and children's books and the editor of Centuries of Stories.

Wendy Cooling was an English teacher for many years before moving to become Head of the Children's Book Foundation [now Young Book Trust]. She was the inspiration behind Book Start - a government backed national scheme to introduce babies to books - and has been a major spokesperson for children's books in the last ten years. Apart from children's book and reading, Wendy's other major passion is travel and it would be difficult to find anywhere in the world that she hasn't been!