October, October: Winner of the Yoto Carnegie Medal 2022
- ISBN-10
- 1526620499
- ISBN-13
- 9781526620491
- Category
- Children's stories
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020-09-03
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Children's Books
- Author
- Katya Balen
Description
October and her dad live in the woods. They sleep in the house Dad built for them and eat the food they grow in the vegetable patches. They know the trees and the rocks and the lake and stars like best friends. They read the books they buy in town again and again until the pages are soft and yellow -- until next year's town visit. They live in the woods and they are wild. And that's the way it is. Until the year October turns eleven. That's the year October rescues a baby owl. It's the year Dad falls out of the biggest tree in their woods. The year the woman who calls herself October's mother comes back. The year everything changes. This book is a feast for the senses, filled with the woodsmoke smell of crisp autumn mornings and the sound of wellies squelching in river mud. And, as October fights to find the space to be wild in the whirling chaos of the world beyond the woods, it is also a feast for the soul.
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Other editions
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- 2021-09-30
- 304 pages
- Paperback
- Bloomsbury Publishing
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- 2020-09-17
- 164 pages
- Paperback
- Bloomsbury Publishing
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