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Hollow Land


Puffin Storybooks

No. of pages 160

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Great for age 8-18 years

 

There are 160 pages in this book. This is a short story book. This book was published 2001 by Walker Books Ltd .

Jane Gardam has twice won the Whitbread Award - for her children's book The Hollow Land and, in 1991, for her adult novel The Queen of the Tambourine. In addition, God on the Rocks was runner-up for the Booker Prize and Bridget and William (now available as one of two stories in the Walker Double Black Woolly Pony, White Chalk Horse) was Commended for the Carnegie Medal. Her other titles include Tufty Bear and The Kit Stories. She is married with three grown-up children and lives in an old house in Kent, which has the ruins of a monastery, a chapel and a ghost in the garden.

This book contains the following story:

The Hollow Land
The Hewittsons are a farming family who live in the Cumbrian fells. Every holiday a London family, The Batemans, come up to the fells and rent a house from the Hewittsons. Harry Bateman, the youngest son falls in with Bell Hewittson, the farmer's son, and together they adventure in the Cumberland hills. The stories told here take place over a period of 20 years as the boys grow up.

This book is in the following series:

Puffin Storybooks

Lythway Books

Lythway Large Print

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