Odd and the Frost Giants (World Book Day edition)

Odd and the Frost Giants (World Book Day edition)

by Mark Buckingham (Illustrator), Mark Buckingham (Illustrator), Neil Gaiman (Author)

Synopsis

Odd's luck has been bad so far. He lost his father on a Viking expedition, his foot was crushed beneath a tree, and the winter seems to be going on for ever. But when Odd flees to the woods and releases a trapped bear, his luck begins to change. The eagle, bear and fox he encounters reveal they're actually Norse gods, trapped in animal form by the evil frost giants who have conquered Asgard, the city of the gods Can a twelve-year-old boy reclaim Thor's hammer, outwit the frost giants and release the gods?

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 112
Edition: UK open market ed of World Book Day ed
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 03 Mar 2008

ISBN 10: 0747595380
ISBN 13: 9780747595380
Children’s book age: 12+ Years
Book Overview: A World Book Day title that will benefit from the major marketing and publicity generated by this international event A GBP1.00 book by one of fantasy literature's star authors Neil Gaiman is a hugely bestselling author with an avid fanbase that has recently grown even bigger in the light of his film success (Stardust, Beowulf and the forthcoming Coraline animation)

Author Bio
Neil Gaiman is the bestselling, multi-prize-winning author of many books for adults and children, among them novels and graphic novels, including the Sandman comic series which has sold over a million copies in hardback and paperback. Neil is also a screenplay writer with Stardust and Beowulf both being released in the autumn of 2007. He is British and lives in America.