CELEBRATING 10 HIGH-FLYING YEARS OF THE MULTI-AWARD-WINNING MODERN CLASSIC, FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE EXPLORER _______________ Winner of the Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize and the Blue Peter Book Award Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal _______________ This brilliant new edition marks the 10th anniversary of Katherine Rundell’s modern classic tale of wild hope and thrilling adventure across the rooftops of Paris, with a celebratory cover roundel and an extra letter from the author. _______________ ‘I enjoyed it tremendously … The next time I go to Paris I will be looking up at the rooftops’ – Jacqueline Wilson Sophie has always been told she was orphaned in a shipwreck, discovered floating in a cello case on the English Channel on her very first birthday. But Sophie is convinced her mother survived too. When the Welfare Agency threatens to tear her away from her guardian and send her to an orphanage, Sophie takes matters into her own hands, starting with her only clue – the address of a Parisian cello-maker. On the run from the authorities, she finds Matteo and his band of rooftoppers, urchins who walk tightropes and make their home in the sky. In a race across the rooftops of Paris, can they find her mother before it’s too late? Hopeful, inspiring and thrilling in equal measure, this is a classic adventure about chasing your dreams and never dismissing a possible. ‘A writer with an utterly distinctive voice and a wild imagination’ – Philip Pullman
ISBN 13: 9781526624802
Author: Katherine Rundell
