Tom Trueheart and the Land of Dark Stories
No. of pages 400
Published: 2009
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This book is part of a book series called Tom Truheart .
There are 400 pages in this book. This book was published in 2009 by Oxford University Press .
Ian Beck is widely published and titles for other publishers include Lost in the Snow, Lost on the Beach, and Home Before Dark.
This book is in the following series:
[Praise for The Secret History of Tom Trueheart, Boy Adventurer]: 'a delightful book, and one with a wide potential audience . . . a story with a timeless quality and great charm for bedtime reading upwards. * Marcus Sedgwick, The Literary Review *
This handsome little book with striking silhouette illustrations, contains a wonderful story. * Julia Eccleshare, lovereadingforkids.com *
Tom's quest to discover his own story and his courage unrolls through an elegantly described magical landscape, in this skilful, highly inventive story about the way stories work. * Booktrust *
Looks likely to become one of the hits of 2006 * Amanda Craig, The Times *
Ian Beck's prose has a crisp and springy rhythm - a treat to read aloud to anyone over the age of six. His illustrations, gnarled silhouettes, are marvellously complex. If you turn them upside down, they change completely. A volume to treasure. * The Telegraph *
Another brilliant fictional concept is the Land of Stories in Ian Beck's The Secret History of Tom Trueheart... The book is guaranteed to enthral children, and adults will laugh at the sly in-jokes. Ian Beck's prose has a crisp and springy rhythm - a treat to read aloud to anyone over the age of six... A volume to treasure. * The Telegraph *
