To herald the start of a new millennium and celebrate the best in 20th Century children's literature, here is a must-have collection, with an unworldly/magical theme. Authors and extracts included are: Roald Dahl's Matilda, J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, David Almond's Skellig, Jenny Nimmo's The Owl Tree, Kaye Umansky's Pongwiffy and the Holiday of Doom, Kate Thompson's Switchers, Philip Ridley's Krindlekrax, Andrew Norris's Aquila, Robert Swindells' Nigtmare Stairs and Helen Cresswell's Snatchers. This collection celebrates the best in children's writing from long-established authors as well as newcomers. Prepare to step Out of This World and into a new millennium ...

 

This book is part of a book series called Out Of This World .

There are 144 pages in this book. It is an anthology. This book was published 2000 by Hachette Children's Group .

Kate Thompson lives in Ireland where she has worked a smallholding for ten years. She has two daughters. She is a fanatical player of the fiddle and an obsessive gardener. Kaye Umansky is very well known for her PONGWIFFY stories (Puffin) and other Titles and authors include Children's Book Award winners: Matilda by Roald Dahl; Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by JK Rowling; Pongwiffy and the Holiday of Doom; The Owl Tree by Jenny Nimmo; Aquila by Andrew Norris; Nightmare Stairs by Robert Swindells. Also, extracts from Switchers by Kate Thompson, Snatchers by Helen Cresswell, Skellig by David Almond and Krindlekrax by Philip Ridley. The FCBG is the largest organisation of its kind in the UK and extremely influential. It brings together librarians, teachers, parents - anyone who has an interest in children's books - in its 45 regional branches. It annually runs the Children's Book Award - judged by 30, 000 children - and six of the extracted titles in this collection are winners or have been shortlisted J K Rowling grew up in a small village on the English/Welsh border. In 1990, after moving to London, she was sitting on a delayed train back home from Manchester when she had the idea of a boy wizard who went to wizarding school. It took a year for her agent Christopher Little to find a publisher. Lots of them turned it down. In June 1997 Bloomsbury published Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone under the name J. K. Rowling. The next six books of the Harry Potter series took her nearly another 10 years to write and publish, with the movies based on the books released in between publications. JK also wrote three short Hogwarts Library companion books for charity: Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them in aid of Comic Relief, and The Tales of Beedle the Bard in aid of Lumos. In 2016 she worked with playwright Jack Thorne and director John Tiffany to continue Harrys story in a stage play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which opened in London, followed by the USA and Australia. She also wrote the screenplay for the film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, the first in a series of new adventures, taking place before the time of Harry Potter, featuring wizarding world magizoologist Newt Scamander, the author of the book she created for Comic Relief in 2001. The second film, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, was released in 2018, and the third in 2022. JK has also written The Ickabog, and The Christmas Pig, a standalone adventure story about a boys love for his most treasured thing and how far he will go to find it. The author lives in Scotland with her family and two dogs. https://stories. jkrowling. com/en-us/home/ Robert Swindells is author of the award-winning novel Brother in the Land and has just finished his first picture book for children. He lives in West Yorkshire, England. David Almond has written many award-winning books including 'The Fire-Eaters', 'Skellig' and 'Kit's Wilderness'. He has won the Gold Smarties Award and the Carnegie Medal. Jenny Nimmo is the acclaimed author of the Charlie Bone series. She has won several significant awards for her children's books, including the Nestle Smarties Book Prize and the Tir na n-Og Welsh Arts Council award for The Snow Spider. She lives in Wales with her husband, David. Roald Dahl was born in Wales of Norwegian parents the child of a second marriage. His father and elder sister died when Roald was just three. His mother was left to raise two stepchildren and her own four children. Roald was her only son. He had an unhappy time at school and this influenced his writing greatly. He once said that what distinguished him from most other childrens writers was this business of remembering what it was like to be young. Many of his books have been turned into films - Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The BFG, The Witches, James and The Giant Peach, Esia Trot, Fantastic Mr Fox. Roalds childhood and schooldays are the subject of his autobiography Boy. https://www. roalddahl. com/ Philip Ridley has written many novels and plays for children, including Fairytaleheart, Sparkleshark, Scribbleboy and Brokenville. Helen Cresswell is best known for the Lizzie Dripping stories which appeared on television, and The Piemakers, her first outstanding success.