by Janni Howker · Fontana/ Collin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780006725817
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«Badger on the Barge and Other Stories» is a collection of short stories for young readers by Janni Howker, published by Fontana/Collins in paperback (218 pages).
This collection of stories is set in the northwest of England and shows encounters between young and old: an elderly woman who lives with her badger, a girl who wins a drawing book, a boy who befriends a veteran fisherman, a former German soldier settled in the country, and two girls who harass a lonely old man.
Included in Fontana's Lions series. This edition is from 1986. It won the IRA Children's and Young Adult's Book Award, and the story «The Egg Man» earned the Tom-Gallon Trust Award.
For young readers from about 8 years old and those looking for stories about the relationship between generations.
Janni Howker is a British writer of adult and children's fiction who has adapted her own books for the screen. She has worked across the UK running creative writing workshops for adults and children, and is involved in several arts development programmes.
