By Sophie Anderson (author) , Joanna Lisowiec (illustrator)
"Vividly imagined and rich in detail, this is also a thoughtful and beautiful story"
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April 2022 Book of the Month | A Julia Eccleshare Pick of the Month April 2022
Best-selling Sophie Anderson weaves magic into this vivid and richly imagined story that also carries a powerful message about the importance of overcoming prejudice and learning to love everyone – even if they seem different. Linnet’s life is turned upside down when the community she lives in suddenly becomes divided.
Following a terrible tragedy, the magical alkonosts who have the unique distinction of being able to sing magic and the humans with whom they share the island suddenly go from living in harmony to becoming deadly enemies. Linnet and her father are banished from the beauty of their island and forced to live in an ugly swamp.
Here they scratch out a living while also living with the constant fear of being caught and killed by the humans. Linnet has yet to develop her magical singing voice. Can she find another way to bring the two sides of her world together and make a new whole? Vividly imagined and rich in detail, this is also a thoughtful and beautiful way of encouraging tolerance.
The Island of Morovia is shaped like a broken heart. The humans live on one side of the island, and the alkonosts - the bird-people - live on the other. But it wasn't always this way.
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Linnet wishes she could sing magic, like her father, Nightingale - and bring the two sides of her island together again. For her land has been divided by a terrible tragedy, and Linnet has been banished with her father to the deepest swamps, leaving behind her best friends, Hero and Silver. So when her father is captured, Linnet must be brave and embark on a treacherous journey.
Through alligator pools and sinking sands, she finds new friends. Yet without her singing magic, Linnet discovers something even more powerful. Something that could save her father, and heal the broken heart of her island once more.
With themes of grief, trust, love, and that we have more in common than that which divides us, this is a heartfelt book filled with adventure and stunning storytelling from bestselling Sophie Anderson.
'Themes of division, community and kindness are woven into a spellbinding adventure from one of my favourite contemporary children's writers.' - The Bookseller
Praise for Sophie Anderson;
“Delicious, exquisite.” Emma Carroll
“Sublime storytelling.” Hilary McKay
“Epic fantasy adventure.” Fiona Noble, The Bookseller
“Beautiful escapism.” Sunday Express S Magazine
“A gem.” Catherine Doyle
“Enchanting.” The Daily Telegraph
“Heart-stirring storytelling.” The Sunday Times
Sophie Anderson was born in Swansea, and now lives in the Lake District with her family. Her writing is most often inspired by folk and fairy stories, especially the Slavic tales her Prussian grandmother told her when she was young.
Across her bestselling novels, Sophie has won the Independent Bookshop Book of the Year Award and the Wales Book of the Year Award, and been shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal twice, the Waterstones Children's Book Prize, the Blue Peter Book Award, the British Book Awards' Children's Fiction Book of the Year, the Andersen Prize, and the Branford Boase Award. Sophie's books have been translated into over twenty-five languages, and The House with Chicken Legs has been adapted for stage by Les Enfants Terribles.
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The Island of Morovia is shaped like a broken heart. The humans live on one side of the island, and the alkonosts - the bird-people - live on the other.
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed The Thief Who Sang Storms and determined it is suitable for children aged 9-12 years old
The Thief Who Sang Storms features in the following genres: Adventure Stories, Children's and Young Adult Fiction, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Books of the Month, Recommendations, Fantasy / Magical, Featured Books for 11+ readers, Julia Eccleshare's Picks of the Month, PSHE: Family Issues, Personal Social Health Economic (PSHE), Featured Books for 9+ readers
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The Thief Who Sang Storms was written by Sophie Anderson and published by Usborne Publishing Ltd
The Thief Who Sang Storms has 410 pages
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