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- Herausgeber: Salt
- Kategorie: Für Kinder und Jugendliche
- Sprache: Englisch
Sometimes, when you open a door or lift a lid, you find exactly what you expected to find: coats in the coat cupboard, bread in the bread bin, toys in the toy box. And sometimes you don't. When Sunny's parents buy an antique shop, they get more than they bargained for: in some of the old furniture, Sunny finds ghosts. Each of the ghosts has an unfulfilled desire, something they never did in their lifetime: Walter wants to learn to read, Violet wants to write a novel, Mary and Elsie want to go to the seaside. While Sunny is trying to help them all, it seems someone else is out to cause trouble…
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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018
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SUNNY AND THE GHOSTS
by
ALISON MOORE
Illustrated by
ROSS COLLINS
SYNOPSIS
Sometimes, when you open a door or lift a lid, you find exactly what you expected to find: coats in the coat cupboard, bread in the bread bin, toys in the toy box. And sometimes you don’t.
When Sunny’s parents buy an antique shop, they get more than they bargained for: in some of the old furniture, Sunny finds ghosts. Each of the ghosts has an unfulfilled desire, something they never did in their lifetime: Walter wants to learn to read, Violet wants to write a novel, Mary and Elsie want to go to the seaside. While Sunny is trying to help them all, it seems someone else is out to cause trouble…
PRAISE FOR PREVIOUS WORK
‘There is an insistent, rhythmic quality to Moore’s writing, and a dark imagination at work.’ —GENEVIEVE FOX,Daily Mail
‘Moore’s distinctive voice commands exceptional power.’ —DINAH BIRCH,The Guardian
‘Impressive and memorable.’ —MERRIC DAVIDSON,The New Writer
‘It deserves to be read, and reread.’ —Isabel Berwick, Financial Times
Alison Moorehas been writing stories since she was a child, and was first published – through a local writing competition – when she was eight. She began writing her first novel,The Lighthouse, the year her son was born, and has now had four novels published.Sunny and the Ghostsis her first book for children. She lives in a village on the Leicestershire-Nottinghamshire border with her husband and son and a cat called Shadow.
Ross Collinswas born in Glasgow, Scotland, quite a while ago. At that time he would eat anything and resembled a currant bun. Ross has written sixteen children’s books and illustrated over a hundred. He no longer resembles a currant bun. He lives in Glasgow with a strange woman, a small child and a stupid dog.
Published by Salt Publishing Ltd
12 Norwich Road, Cromer, Norfolk NR27 0AX
All rights reserved
Copyright © Alison Moore,2018
The right ofAlison Mooreto be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with Section 77 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
All illustrations remain the copyright of Ross Collins.
The moral right of Ross Collins to be identified as the illustrator of this Work has been asserted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
This book is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Salt Publishing.
Salt Publishing 2018
Created by Salt Publishing Ltd
This book is sold subject to the conditions that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out,or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.
ISBN 978-1-78463-127-7 electronic
For Arthur, Tommy and Tess
Contents
The First Ghost
The Second Ghost
The Third Ghost
The Fourth Ghost, and the Fifth
The Sixth Ghost
Epilogue
Welcome to my website!
Sunny and the Hotel Splendid
Sometimes, when you open a door or lift a lid, you find exactly what you expected to find: coats in the coat cupboard, bread in the bread bin, toys in the toy box. And sometimes you don’t.
