NOT THE END OF THE WORLD.

UK,slim,small 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.] NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,matt,yellow background with b/w illustrations illustrated dw/dj panels with green+red lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present. Top+fore-edges slightly aged/toned and with sporadic foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,generally clean,solid and sound - one dog-ear reading creases to pp145/6's top corner.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered with exception of bottom two corners - which are minimally bumped with reciprocal creasing,publisher's original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked fluorescent red gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,slim,small 8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,1-174pp [paginated] includes story - some but not all sections with b/w thumbnail drawing as headpieces - plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,an epigram,a cast of characters list/table and 8pp blanks at the rear of the book.
Everyone knows the story of the Flood,The waters that rose unstoppably.The men who survived.The animals that went in two by two.
But what about the others? The women and the children.How did it feel to head into the unknown? Could God really mean them to watch people struggling in the water,and do nothing to help? And how did it feel to spend day after day shut up with every kind of animal - hungry,angry,and afraid?
This stunning story,sometimes frightening and always compelling, asks what it was really like when the heavens opened and the world drowned - and what might have happened in the days that followed.
Winner of the Whitbread Children's Book Award for 2004. Want more Geraldine McCAUGHREAN titles? Please search my SIGNED and CHILDRENS/ILLUSTRATED catalogues for signed/ unsigned UK,HB+dw/dj,1st edns of other and similar titles. Geraldine McCaughrean,an accomplished children's author and reteller of traditional tales,recreates the thrill and drama of the stories as she unravels the plots and breathes life into her characters.She won the Whitbread Children's Award in 1987 for 'A Little Lower Than the Angels'. This was followed in 1988 by 'A Pack of Lies', which one the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian's Children's Fiction Award.She has retold a number of classics for children,including The Canterbury Tales,El Cid and The Arabian Nights. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the lighter weight of this item for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.