by Joan Aiken · Sandpiper · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780152060947
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«Arabel's Raven» is the children's book by Joan Aiken, published by Sandpiper in paperback (160 pages, in English).
The raven Mortimer enters Arabel's life when her father, a taxi driver, picks him up injured in the street. From then on, the bird devours everything he finds, takes the phone off the hook croaking «Nevermore!» and sows chaos around him, but Arabel grows fond of him.
Collects the first three works of the «Arabel and Mortimer» series and includes illustrations by Quentin Blake. 2007 edition.
For readers aged 8 to 12, especially those who enjoy animal stories and zany humour.
Joan Delano Aiken was an English writer specialising in supernatural fiction and children's alternative history novels. In 1999 she was awarded an MBE for her services to children's literature. For The Whispering Mountain, published by Jonathan Cape in 1968, she won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a book award judged by a panel of British children's writers, and she was a commended runner-up for the Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British writer. She won an Edgar Allan Poe Award (1972) for Night Fall.
