Ottoline goes to school
Ottoline and Mr. Munroe, her very helpful dog, enroll in the Alice B. Smith School for the Differently Gifted and while Ottoline worries that she may not have a special gift, Mr. Munro worries about the ghost that is said to haunt the school at night.
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Harper,
2009.
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| Edition: | 1st American ed. |
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| Summary: | Ottoline and Mr. Munroe, her very helpful dog, enroll in the Alice B. Smith School for the Differently Gifted and while Ottoline worries that she may not have a special gift, Mr. Munro worries about the ghost that is said to haunt the school at night. |
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| Physical Description: | 170 p. : some col. ill. ; 19 cm. |
| Audience: | Ages 8-12. |
| ISBN: | 9780061449000 (trade bdg.) 0061449008 (trade bdg.) 9780061449017 (lib. bdg.) 0061449016 (lib. bdg.) |
| Author Notes: | Chris Riddell was born on April 13, 1962. He is a British illustrator and occasional writer of children's books and a political cartoonist for The Observer. He has won two Kate Greenaway Medals, the British librarians' annual award for the best-illustrated children's book, and two of his works were commended runners-up. Books that he wrote or illustrated have won three Nestlé Smarties Book Prizes and have been silver or bronze runners-up four times. He was shortlisted for the 2015 Kate Greenaway Medal for his title Goth Girl: And the Ghost of a Mouse. He was named the ninth Waterstones Children's Laureate in 2015. Riddell was presented with a Children¿s Laureate medal and a £15,000 (A$30,014) bursary cheque at a ceremony in London, where he announced plans to promote visual literacy during his two-year term. (Bowker Author Biography) |
