by Robert Westall · MAMMOTH · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780749707965
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«The Kingdom by the Sea» is Robert Westall's historical fiction novel for young readers, published by Mammoth in paperback (176 pages, in English).
During World War II, a bombing raid destroys the home of Harry, a twelve-year-old boy from Tyneside, and kills his family. Alone, with a stray dog as his only companion, he travels along the English coast in search of a safe place. A story of survival and growth that shows the war through a child's eyes.
Winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize in 1991 and nominated for the Carnegie Medal in 1990, it was originally published in 1990.
Recommended for young and teenage readers, especially those interested in historical fiction set during World War II.
Robert Atkinson Westall was an English author and teacher known for fiction aimed at children and young people. Some of the latter cover complex, dark, and adult themes. He has been called "the dean of British war novelists". His first book, The Machine Gunners, won the 1975 Carnegie Medal for the year's outstanding children's book by a British subject. It was named among the top ten Medal-winners at the 70th anniversary celebration in 2007. Westall also won a second Carnegie, a Smarties Prize, and the once-in-a-lifetime Guardian Prize.
