The Ice Sea Pirates

Description

The cold bites and the sea lashes in this page-turning adventure on the ice seas. No one but ten-year-old Siri dares to face treacherous sailors, hungry wolves and the arctic winter to save her younger sister from the dreaded Captain Whitehead and his ice sea pirates.

Frida Nilsson is a leading Swedish author who has been an August Prize nominee three times and won the Astrid Lindgren Prize in 2014. In 2017 she was selected as one of Europe's best emerging writers for young people through the Hay Festival's Aarhus 39. Her books have been translated throughout Europe and nominated for the prestigious Youth Literature Prize in Germany and several literary awards in France. Nilsson's writing is characterised by humour and sincerity. She writes about the big questions in life-friendship, death and love-and has been compared to Roald Dahl and Astrid Lindgren. David Barrow is a graduate of the Cambridge School of Art where he completed a Masters in Children's Book Illustration and received the top prize, the Sebastian Walker award for most promising children's illustrator. He lives in England with his wife and son.

"The spirited Siri Faces abandonment, wolves, dastardly villains and near death is this thrilling novel" -- Womens Weekly "A raging, pirate-infested adventure....But, what I really really loved about this book is that Siri's journey it involves encounters with massively complex characters who at first appear really kind but then they have this dark edge as well." -- Radio New Zealand "A junior version of the Iliad... a hypnotising read-alone for confident middle graders or a perfect bed-time story for any age." -- Kids' Book Review (AUS)