by Joan Aiken · Red Fox · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099404835
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«In Thunder's Pocket» is Joan Aiken's children's adventure and mystery novel, published by Red Fox in paperback (96 pages, in English).
Ned has to spend some time with his aunt and uncle in Thunder's Pocket. From the moment a bird gets into the train carriage, he senses these won't be ordinary holidays. The eccentric sculptor Marlot Corby, a possible curse, and the secrets of her house and gardens turn the stay into a mystery adventure.
It is the first title in the St. Ives series, features illustrations by Caroline Crossland, and was published in 2001.
For young readers looking for a story of adventure and mystery by the sea.
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.
