And at last, with great conviction, he flung both his arms in the air and cried: ‘I am the moon king.’
About the Author
SIOBHÁN PARKINSON is one of Ireland’s most highly acclaimed writers of books for children. She has won numerous awards and her books have been translated into several languages, including French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Danish. Siobhán lives in Dublin with her husband Roger, a woodturner, and their son Matthew, Siobhán’s personal literary critic.
OTHER BOOKS BY SIOBHÁN PARKINSON
For younger readers
Cows are Vegetarians
Animals Don’t Have Ghosts
The Leprechaun Who Wished He Wasn’t
All Shining in the Spring
For older readers
Amelia
No Peace for Amelia
Sisters … no way!
Four Kids, Three Cats, Two Cows, One Witch (maybe)
Call of the Whales
The Love Bean
Breaking the Wishbone
Copyright
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British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
Parkinson, Siobhán
The moon king
1. Foster children - Juvenile fiction
1. Children’s stories
I. Title
823.9’14 [J]
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OTHER BOOKS BY SIOBHÁN PARKINSON
CALL OF THE WHALES
Over three summers, Tyke journeys with his anthropologist father to the remote and icy wilderness of the Arctic. Each summer brings short, intense friendships with the Eskimos, and adventures ‘which Mum doesn’t need to know about’. Tyke is saved from drowning and hypothermia, joins a bowhead whale hunt, rescues his new-found Eskimo friend, Henry, and witnesses the death of innocence with the killing of the narwhal, or sea unicorn. This is a story that will echo in the mind long after the Northern Lights have faded from the final chapters.
Paperback €6.95/STG£4.99/$7.95
THE LOVE BEAN
Twins: they like the same things. But that can cause problems. Especially where boys are concerned. When Tito, a tall handsome African, walks into the lives of Lydia and Julia, it turns every relationship upside down. Then there’s the ‘twinny book’ – The Curiosity Tree. It’s about Sun’va and Eva: they’re twins too. And a boy has just sailed into their lives, causing havoc. Romance mirrors romance, jealousy mirrors jealousy – it seems like history is repeating itself.
Paperback €6.95/STG£4.99/$7.95
A Flipper book
SISTERS … NO WAY!
Winner Bisto Book of the Year Award 1997
When Cindy’s father becomes involved with Ashling and Alva’s mother, all hell breaks loose. Cindy is cool and streetwise, and she hates Ashling and Alva because they’re prissy and girlish. No way will these three ever call each other sisters!
CINDY: if her father thinks he can just swan off and actually marry one of her teachers, Cindy will show him! But worse than that are her two daughters – so boring. It’s gross!
ASHLING: if only her mother could find a nice man – but the new man in Ashling’s mother’s life comes with a dreadful daughter – the obnoxious Cindy, arch-snob and ultra opinionated.
Paperback €6.95/STG£4.99/$7.95
‘Extremely clever … much insight and good humour … teenage fiction at its most sophisticated’
CHILDREN’S BOOKS IN IRELAND
FOUR KIDS, THREE CATS, TWO COWS, ONE WITCH (MAYBE)
Winner Bisto Book of the Year Merit Award 1998
Beverly, a bit of a snob, cooks up a plot to visit the island off the coast. She manages to convince the somewhat cautious Elizabeth and her slob of a brother, Gerard, to go with her. A surprise companion is Kevin, the cool guy who works in the local shop. This motley crew must find ways to support each other, and put up with one another’s shortcomings, when they become stranded on the island and encounter a very strange inhabitant.
Paperback €6.95/STG£4.99/$7.95
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