Where Snow Angels Go by Maggie O'Farrell

Where Snow Angels Go by Maggie O'Farrell

By Maggie O'Farrell (author) , Daniela Jaglenka Terrazzini (illustrator)

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Have you ever woken up suddenly, in the middle of the night, without knowing why? From the best-selling and award-winning author of Hamnet , Maggie O'Farrell, weaves an extraordinary and compelling modern fairy tale about the bravery of a little girl and the miracle of a snowy day.

Sylvie wakes one night, suddenly, without knowing why. Then she sees the most spectacular sight - a pair of wings, enormous in size, made of the softest snow-white feathers imaginable. An angel in her bedroom … a snow angel. He tells her that he is here to look after her, for Sylvie is not as well as she seems...

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Many months later, as Sylvie recovers from her illness, she longs to see her snow angel again. He saved her life, after all. There is so much she wants to tell him, so much she wants to know. Will he ever come back to her? And how can Sylvie make sure that everyone she loves has their own snow angel, to keep them safe, too?

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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Sylvie wakes one night, suddenly, without knowing why. Then she sees the most spectacular sight - a pair of wings, enormous in size, made of the softest snow-white feathers imaginable.

The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed Where Snow Angels Go and determined it is suitable for children aged 5-6 years old

Where Snow Angels Go features in the following genres: Festive Fiction, Children's and Young Adult Fiction, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Featured Books for 5+ readers, Recommendations

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Where Snow Angels Go was written by Maggie O'Farrell and published by Walker Books Ltd an imprint of Walker Books

Where Snow Angels Go has 67 pages

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