Ashling: the Obernewtyn Chroni [Import] [Paperback]

Isobelle Carmody (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 521 pages
• Publisher: Viking Children's Books (February 13, 1995)
• ISBN-10: 0670853577
• ISBN-13: 978-0670853571
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

More About the Author

ISOBELLE CARMODY is an Australian writer of science fiction, fantasy, children's and juvenile literature. She divides her time between a home on the Great Ocean Road in Australia and her travels abroad. Isobelle began work on the highly acclaimed Obernewtyn Chronicles when she was just fourteen years old. She continued to work on these while completing a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in literature and philosophy, followed by a cadetship in journalism. The first two books in the Obernewtyn series were short listed for the CBC Children's Book of the Year in the Older Readers category; Scatterlings won Talking book of the Year. The Gathering was a joint winner of the 1993 CBC Book of the Year Award and the 1994 Children's Literature Peace Prize. Greylands won an Aurealis Award and a White Raven at Bologna, while Billy Thunder and the Night Gate was shortlisted for the Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children's Literature in the 2001 NSW Premier's Literary Awards. Both Little Fur and A Fox Called Sorrow received BAAFTA Industry Awards for design. Alyzon Whitestarr won the coveted Golden Aurealis for overall best novel at the Aurealis Awards. With Nan Mc Nabb she was the participating editor of a two book collection of stories titled respectively The Wilful Eye and The Wicked Wood, released in 2011. Her most recent book The Red Wind won Book of the Year. She is currently working on the final book in the Obernewtyn Chronicles, The Red Queen.

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4.0 out of 5 stars complex and imaginative, yet understandable, genius., August 17, 2002

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This review is from: Ashling: the Obernewtyn Chroni (Paperback)

this book is the 3rd in the obernewtyn series and it lived up to the high expectations i had made for it from my opinions of the first two books in the series. i enjoyed it so much that it was a shock when it ended. it is not the last in the series and it made me hunt for the next one. this series is one of the best i have ever read, harry potter was very good but i like this more. it brings together real life issues and a slight fantasy twist and shows the readers the problems of the world and what truly matters in life. i have read the 4th in the series and am searching for the 5th. the next are always better than the last. this author is amazing and the series is a must-read for anyone who likes books that deal subtly with day to day issues mixed with mystical powers that we all dreamed of having at one point in our lives.