The Legend Begins (Little Fur) [Hardcover]

Isobelle Carmody (Author)

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 6 and up
  
• Hardcover
• Publisher: San Val (January 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1417823046
• ISBN-13: 978-1417823048
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,134,495 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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.