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Phoenix
  • Published: 5 December 2013
  • ISBN: 9781448157709
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 496

Phoenix

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5 Dec 2013
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1 June 2015
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From the award-winning author of Varjak Paw, comes the incredible story of the one boy who can save the Galaxy.

This digital edition includes the original artwork, has been specially adapted for ebook platforms and is optimised for tablet devices.

A BOY WITH THE POWER OF A STAR . . .

Lucky thinks he's an ordinary Human boy. But one night, he dreams that the stars are singing to him, and wakes to find an uncontrollable power rising inside him.

Now he's on the run, racing through space, searching for answers. In a galaxy at war, where Humans and Aliens are deadly enemies, the only people who can help him are an Alien starship crew – and an Alien warrior girl, with neon needles in her hair . . .
  • Published: 5 December 2013
  • ISBN: 9781448157709
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 496
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About the authors

SF Said

SF Said is an award-winning and bestselling children's author. He was born in Lebanon but has lived in London nearly all his life. His first book, Varjak Paw, won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize for Children's Literature, was adapted for the stage, has sold over a million copies, and was included in BookTrust's 100 Best Children's Books of the Last 100 Years. The sequel, The Outlaw Varjak Paw, won the Blue Peter Book of the Year Award and was nominated for the Carnegie Medal. SF's third novel, Phoenix, was shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Award and nominated for both the Carnegie Medal and the Kate Greenaway Medal. His latest book, Tyger, won Children's Book of the Year at the British Book Awards, Children's Book of the Year (Older Fiction) at the Week Junior Book Awards, Foyles Children's Book of the Year, and was picked as a book of the year by the Guardian, Times, Sunday Times and Sun. It was also a New York Times bestseller. SF Said is a Fellow of the Royal Society Of Literature. He has judged the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, the Whitbread Book Awards (now the Costa Book Awards) and the Amnesty CILIP Honour. He has given talks at the British Library, the British Film Institute, the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, and on BBC Radio 4. He has also written extensively about children's and young adult fiction for both the Guardian and the Daily Telegraph.
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Dave McKean

Dave McKean is an illustrator, photographer, comic book artist, graphic designer, filmmaker, and musician. His work incorporates drawing, painting, photography, collage, found objects, digital art, and sculpture.

After a trip to New York in 1986, during which he failed to find work as a comics artist, McKean met writer Neil Gaiman and the pair collaborated on a short graphic novel of disturbing childhood memories, Violent Cases, published in 1987. This was followed in 1988 by a Black Orchid miniseries (again with Gaiman) and Hellblazer covers for DC Comics. Beginning in 1989 he produced the covers for Gaiman's celebrated series The Sandman as well as all its collected editions and many of its spin-offs; and the Batman graphic novel, Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth, with writer Grant Morrison (1989). McKean has gone on to collaborate further with Neil Gaiman in both print and film.
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Praise for Phoenix

An exciting and involved space adventure which engages with big themes . . . Atmospheric illustrations are a bonus.

Peters Books

Incredible . . . If sci-fi is your thing then Phoenix is a must-read, if sci-fi isn’t your thing then Phoenix is a should-read, trust me!

Raimy, Readaraptor

A big (and big-hearted) story . . . Said’s child-centred, inclusive text and McKean’s gorgeous images combine to produce a story that will encourage young imaginations to take flight. The final sequence, in particular, is both stunning and uplifting.

Linda Buckley-Archer, Guardian

An action-packed adventure that will appeal to both boys and girls.

Linda Buckley-Archer, Guardian

Lucky is a great super hero for kids, someone who puts others first . . . The illustrations by Dave McKean were very inspirational . . . I give this book 10/10!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Louis, HomeForBookwormsLikeMe

Completely absorbing . . . The book is beautiful - lavishly illustrated by Dave McKean, with words and pictures working seamlessly together.

Julia Eccleshare, Guardian

This book kept catching my eye in bookstores . . . The writing, as well as the illustrations, bring the story to life beautifully. . . Lucky is unforgettable.

Books and Writers JNR

There were some genius twists that kept me guessing at the ending. There’s no way I could have ever predicted the last chapters. They were heartbreaking, yet hopeful, and so beautiful . . . HIGHLY recommended for any sci-fi fans, fantasy fans, out there - and also anybody who wants a new favourite book.

Books and Writers JNR

This is fabulous, high-octane stuff, with an uplifting ending, stunningly illustrated by the brilliant McKean

Sally Morris, Daily Mail

Like the brightest light from the furthest star, this book is a creation to behold . . . It is a breathtaking epic space adventure that will have you gripped

Vincent Ripley, Mr Ripley's Enchanted Books

Brilliant . . . a total pageturner. . . gloriously produced

Jacqueline Wilson

A rip-roaring plot . . . awe-inspiring artwork.

The Book Bag

Said is bold enough to know that sometimes, things can get scary, and young readers need that . . . [The illustration] uses the vastness and emptiness of space as a tool, filling this negative space with the movement of lines that enhance the vastness, and both the fear and joy that comes with being alone in it . . . A beautiful and awesome mythology, . . A remarkable adventure story for any age.

Dork Shelf

An extraordinary tale of science-fiction, adventure, love and war . . . Phoenix is a remarkable novel, uniting Said’s incredible storytelling with wonderful illustrations that bring to life an entire universe of creativity and imagination. Full of suspense, intrigue, action, emotion and more, this is a fantastic read which must surely be set for great things.

Booktrust

Breathlessly paced . . . A powerful story of great scope and ambition, from an expert storyteller. And with these gorgeously deep black-and-white illustrations, the great McKean is on absolutely top form here.

Daniel Hahn, The Independent on Sunday

Fierily poetic on a galactic scale, Lucky's search for his father, against a background of interplanetary peril, is totally transporting - as are the illustrations.

Imogen Russell Williams, The Metro

It is layered with depth and meaning right from the get go . . . These multilayered themes and ideas, reinforced by strong characterisation, make this book shine . . . The result is a touching, meaningful story for children and adults alike.

Barbara Melville, Interzone issue 249