By Maggie O'Farrell (author) , Daniela Jaglenka Terrazzini (illustrator)
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From Maggie O'Farrell, the multi award-winning author of Hamnet , and the stunning imagination of Daniela Jaglenka Terrazzini, comes a hopeful and powerful new book, based on Maggie's own experience on living with a stammer.
Sisters Bea and Min couldn't be any more different - Bea is neat and tidy; Min is messy and mucky. Together, they are a perfect pair because Min loves to chat and Bea loves to listen. And in their happy differences, they share the attic room at the top of their very tall, narrow house. Then, one day, as Min is chatting, her tongue feels suddenly locked. The words forming in her mouth never make it out.
Some days later, still struggling to speak, she sees the most extraordinary thing at her shoulder in a mirror ... a creature, a thing , seizing the words as they rise to her lips, and cramming them into its mouth. Min continues to struggle with her stammer - how can she truly be herself, when she cannot do what she loves most: chat! Bea is the only one who truly sees, and understands, her.
Together, they go on a journey of discovery - what IS this creature? - and they find not quite a solution, but a way to make peace with themselves and to love and embrace what makes each of them different.
Maggie O'Farrell is an award-winning Irish-British author. Her books for adults have received international acclaim; she has won the Betty Trask Award for her debut novel After You'd Gone , the Somerset Maugham Award in 2005 for The Distance Between Us , the 2013 Costa Novel Award for The Hand That First Held Mine , the 2020 Waterstones Book of the Year Award and the 2020 Women's Fiction Prize for Hamnet , and her non-fiction book I Am I Am I Am reached number 1 on the Sunday Times bestseller list. Where Snow Angels Go was her first book for children, and it won the Indie Book of the Month.
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From Maggie O'Farrell, the multi award-winning author of Hamnet, and the stunning imagination of Daniela Jaglenka Terrazzini, comes a hopeful and powerful new book, based on Maggie's own experience on living with a stammer.Sisters Bea and Min couldn't be any more different - Bea is neat and tidy; Min is messy and mucky. Together, they are a perfect pair because Min loves to chat and Bea loves to listen.
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed When the Stammer Came to Stay and determined it is suitable for children aged 5-6 years old
When the Stammer Came to Stay features in the following genres: Fantasy / Magical, Children's and Young Adult Fiction, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Featured Books for 5+ readers, Recommendations
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When the Stammer Came to Stay was written by Maggie O'Farrell and published by Walker Books Ltd an imprint of Walker Books
When the Stammer Came to Stay has 68 pages
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