LoveReading4Kids Says
Shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2007.
What the judges’ said:
Based on a brilliant idea of a parallel London. The author has a pitch-perfect way with dialogue, a real subtlety of depth of character and the reader will see London through new eyes’
This may well be a debut novel but it has the quality, the originality and the emotional pull of someone writing with much more experience. Ancient powers, warring forces, in a parallel world that is the city of London, wreak havoc to two boys whilst the rest of London appears unaware of what’s going on.
The plot is intricate, multi-layered and the world in which George and Edie are trapped is breathtaking. Charlie Fletcher is a brilliant storyteller and Stone Heart is an epic adventure that’s not to be missed. Fans of Philip Pullman or William Nicholson will devour this.
If you enjoyed this then do read his next book Iron Hand, and the final title in the trilogy, Silvertongue..
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Stoneheart Synopsis
Deep in the City something had been woken, so old that people had been walking past it for centuries without giving it a second look!' When George breaks the dragon's head outside the Natural History Museum he awakes an ancient power. This prehistoric beast, sentry-still for centuries, hunts him down with a terrifying wrath. And this is just the beginning! The taints and spits -- statues with opposing natures -- are warring forces; wreaking deadly havoc on the city landscape. The World War One gunner offers protection of sorts; and the wisdom of the Sphinx is legendary. But George and his companion Edie are trapped in a world of danger. And worse -- they are quite alone. The rest of London is oblivious to their plight. This epic adventure exposes forces long-layered in the fabric of London. After entering its richly original and breathtaking world, the city streets and skyline will never again seem the same!
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9780340911624 |
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19th October 2006 |
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Charlie Fletcher |
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Hodder & Stoughton Childrens Division |
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Hardback |
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About Charlie Fletcher
Charlie began his career in the film business carrying cans of film round Soho and making very bad cups of tea on the principal that he'd then be asked to do something a bit more interesting, a strategy that he recommends to anyone starting out as a tea-boy. He progressed to the BBC where he worked in film editing on everything from Drama to Current Affairs. He then went to California where he morphed into a screenwriter, having been awarded a Warner Brothers Fellowship in Screenwriting at USC School of Cinema and TV.
He's written screenplays for Tri-Star, MGM, Paramount and Warner Bros among others. He continues to write for the movies, and also television.
Charlie also moved into other types of writing including magazine features, a computer game and as both a national Sunday newspaper columnist and restaurant reviewer. Finally he found the way to combine all those writing strands and produced some rattling-good children's books!
The Stoneheart trilogy has been a massive international hit and Charlie has recently sold the movie rights of Stoneheart to Paramount. He has also been asked to write the screenplay himself, which just shows you should never make plans, since he actually wrote the books to get away from Hollywood for a bit...
Charlie met and married his wife, a fellow Scot, in LA. They have two children, whom Charlie calls his first, most important, and toughest audience. They've all now returned from California and live in Edinburgh with a terrier called Archie.
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