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The flower king

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The narrator of this story doesn't just see colours, he feels them.

At home, the colour is mainly panic button red. But when visiting old Mrs Pinder, yellow floods in, the yellow of the daffodil fields she worked as a child for the Flower King, whose tragic story lies at the heart of this tale.

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Walker Books Ltd
0744577195 / 9780744577198
Paperback
823.914
04/09/2000
United Kingdom
English
218p.
18 cm
teenage Learn More
Quiz No: 203822, Points 6.00, Book Level 3.80,
Middle Years - Key Stage 2 Learn More
Reprint. Originally published: 1993.
This debut novel was shortlisted for both the Whitbread Children's Novel Award and the Guardian Children's Fiction Award. Lesley Howarth's previous title "Maphead" won the 1995 Guardian Children's Fiction Award and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal, the WH Smith Mind Boggling Books Award and Young Telegraph's Book of the Year. "Weather Eye" won the Smarties Book Prize (9-11 Category).
This debut novel was shortlisted for both the Whitbread Children's Novel Award and the Guardian Children's Fiction Award. Lesley Howarth's previous title "Maphead" won the 1995 Guardian Children's Fiction Award and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal, the WH Smith Mind Boggling Books Award and Young Telegraph's Book of the Year. "Weather Eye" won the Smarties Book Prize (9-11 Category). YFB General fiction (Children's / Teenage)