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Withering-by-Sea 10th Anniversary Edition (Stella Montgomery, #1)
Series: Stella Montgomery
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WINNER ABIA BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR YOUNGER READERS 'Fans of Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events will eat up Withering-by-Sea'-- Shelf Awareness High on a cliff above the gloomy coastal town of Withering-by-Sea stands the Hotel Majestic. Inside the walls of the damp, dull...
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WINNER ABIA BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR YOUNGER READERS
'Fans of Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events will eat up Withering-by-Sea'
-- Shelf Awareness
High on a cliff above the gloomy coastal town of Withering-by-Sea stands the Hotel Majestic. Inside the walls of the damp, dull hotel, eleven-year-old orphan Stella Montgomery leads a miserable life with her three dreadful Aunts.
But one night, Stella sees something she shouldn't have... Something that will set in motion an adventure more terrifying and more wonderful than she could ever have hoped for...
Discover the series that's loved by tens of thousands of readers!
MORE PRAISE
'The perfect package -- appearance and feel and smell and story.' -- Glenda Millard
'Wildly imaginative, darkly funny. I was hooked from the first page.' -- Jen Storer
'A delightful, thoroughly enjoyable book' -- Books+Publishing
MORE AWARDS
Withering-by-Sea (Book 1)
- Winner - 2015 Indie Awards, Book of the Year: Children's & YA
- Winner - 2015 Australian Book Industry Awards, Book of the Year: Older Children
- Winner - 2015 Davitt Awards
- Honour Book - 2015 Children's Book Council of Australia Awards
- Shortlisted - 2015 Prime Minister's Literary Awards
- Shortlisted - 2014 Aurealis Awards
- Shortlisted - 2017 Australian Book Design Awards
Wormwood Mire (Book 2)
- Winner - 2017 Davitt Awards
- Shortlisted - 2017 Indie Awards, Book of the Year: Children's & YA
- Shortlisted - 2017 Australian Book Industry Awards, Book of the Year: Older Children
- Shortlisted - 2017 ABA Booksellers' Choice Award
- Shortlisted - 2017 Australian Book Design Awards
- Notable Book - 2017 Children's Book Council of Australia Awards
Product Details
INFORMATION
Barcode: 9780733343797
Publisher: ABC Books
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 04 December 2024
Country: Australia
Imprint: ABC Books
Audience: Children
DIMENSIONS
Length: 18.0mm
Width: 128.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 199g
Pages: 272
Series: Stella Montgomery
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About the Author
Judith Rossell is the multi-award-winning author-illustrator of the bestselling Stella Montgomery series (Withering-by-Sea, Wormwood Mire, Wakestone Hall and A Garden of Lilies: Improving Tales for Young Minds). Before beginning her career in children's books, Judith worked as a government scientist (not a mad scientist, a normal kind of scientist) and also for a cotton-spinning company (that made threads for T-shirts and denim jeans and mops and teabag strings). Judith has written thirteen books and illustrated more than eighty. Her work has been published in the US and UK, and translated into more than twenty languages. Judith lives in Melbourne, Australia with a cat the size of a walrus. www.judithrossell.com
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