by Lesley Howarth (Author)
A dazzlingly original, touching and funny rites-of-passage novel by a multi award-winning author. Powers and his son Boothe, alias MapHead, are visitors from the Subtle World - a world that exists side by side with our own. Now twelve, at the Dawn of Power, MapHead has come to meet his human mother for the first time, making his home on a farm, in a tomato house. Big on Ancient Rome and its chariot races, the young traveller finds modern society bewildering. He can flash up a map of any place across his head, but the rhythms and idioms of human speech are quite alien to him. It is the language of the heart, though, about which he has most to learn if he is truly to find his power...
Format: Paperback
Pages: 159
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Walker Books Ltd
Published: 31 Jan 2007
ISBN 10: 0744577713
ISBN 13: 9780744577716
Children’s book age: 9-11 Years
Book Overview: MapHead won the 1995 Guardian Children's Fiction Award and the W.H. Smith Mind Boggling Books Award, and was Highly Commended for the Carnegie Medal that year. Lesley Howarth's third novel, Weather Eye , won the Smarties Book Prize.