Millions: From the UK Children's Laureate 2024–2026

Millions: From the UK Children's Laureate 2024–2026

by Frank Cottrell Boyce (Author), Frank Cottrell Boyce (Author), Frank Cottrell Boyce (Author), Frank Cottrell Boyce (Author), Steven Lenton (Illustrator)

Synopsis

Frank Cottrell Boyce's Millions is the tale of a not-so-great train robbery.

Two brothers, Damian and Anthony, are unwittingly caught up in a train robbery during Britain's countdown to joining the Euro. Suddenly finding themselves with a vast amount of cash, the boys have just one glorious, appalling dilemma - how to spend it in the few days before it becomes worthless. Torn between the vices of buying a million pizzas and the virtues of ending world poverty, the boys soon discover that being rich is a mug's game. For not only is the clock ticking - the bungling bank robbers are closing in too.

Pizzas or World Peace - what would you choose?

This edition features fantastic cover artwork from the incredible Steven Lenton.

$3.88

Quantity

7 in stock

More Information

Format: paperback
Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books
Published:

ISBN 10: 152900876X
ISBN 13: 9781529008760
Children’s book age: 9-11 Years

Media Reviews
Damian's voice leaps off the page and into your heart. Millions is fresh, funny, touching and wise. * The Times *
Deliciously funny * Guardian *
Pure gold * Scotsman *
Written with charm and humour, this is a touching, absorbing oddity of a book about love, grief, avarice and generosity. * Sunday Times *
Author Bio

Frank Cottrell-Boyce is an award-winning author and screenwriter. Millions, his debut children's novel, won the CILIP Carnegie Medal. He is also the author of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again, Cosmic, Framed and The Astounding Broccoli Boy. His books have been shortlisted for a multitude of prizes, including the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, the Whitbread Children's Fiction Award (now the Costa Book Award) and the Roald Dahl Funny Prize. Sputnik's Guide to Life on Earth was shortlisted for the 2017 CILIP Carnegie Medal and selected for the inaugural W H Smith Tom Fletcher Book Club.

Frank is a judge for the BBC Radio 2 500 Words competition and, along with Danny Boyle, devised the Opening Ceremony for the London 2012 Olympics. He has written for the hit TV series Dr Who, screenwrites for feature films, including his own Millions, The Railway Man and the award-winning Goodbye Christopher Robin.