A small boy in a remote island setting misses his Dad, who often has to go away on trips far away in Canada. He is reassured by a make-believe trip with the local turnstones to visit him in the Far North. These two Turnstones have hitched a ride on the river ferry every day for six years - Jago gradually learns their secrets, and embarks on a wonderful midnight adventure.

 

There are 38 pages in this book. This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+). This book was published 2012 by Mabecron Books Ltd .

Praise for Rebecca: "[Rebecca] Cobb's illustrations capture the joy of childhood" Sunday Times Helen Dunmore was an award-winning novelist, poet and children's writer, who will be remembered for the wisdom, lyricism, compassion and immersive beauty of her writing. In her lifetime, she published eight collections of poetry, many novels for both adults and children, and two collections of short stories. She won the Orange Prize for Fiction with her novel A Spell of Winter, her novel The Siege was shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the Whitbread Prize for Fiction, and her final poetry collection Inside the Wave won the 2017 Costa Book of the Year.