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The Whispering Mountain

The Whispering Mountain

by JoanAiken (Author)

  • Used

    Paperback 1970

    $6.39

  • Used

    Paperback 1992

    $3.62

$6.39

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 224
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Puffin
Published: 26 Nov 1970
ISBN 10: 0140304606
ISBN 13: 9780140304602
Prizes: Winner of Guardian Children's Fiction Award 1969.

Author Bio
Joan Delano Aiken (1924-2004) was the daughter of the American poet, Conrad Aiken. Joan had a variety of jobs, including working for the BBC, the United Nations Information Centre and then as features editor for a short story magazine. Her first children's novel, The Kingdom of the Cave, was published in 1960. Joan Aiken wrote over a hundred books for young readers and adults and is recognized as one of the classic authors of the twentieth century. Her best-known books are those in the James III saga, of which The Wolves of Willoughby Chase was the first title, published in l962 and awarded the Lewis Carroll prize. Both that and Black Hearts in Battersea have been filmed. Her books are internationally acclaimed and she received the Edgar Allan Poe Award in the United States as well as the Guardian Award for Fiction in this country for The Whispering Mountain. In 1999 Joan Aiken was awarded an MBE for her services to children's books.