Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing

 

Shayun Akhar

Author: Kathryn Cave
Reading Age: 4- 8 years
ISBN: 9789992142516
Format: Paperback
Published: June 2011
Price: £2.99/QR20

 

Highlights

• Awarded the first international UNESCO prize for Children’s and Young People’s Literature in the Service of Tolerance
• With illustrations by multiple award-winning British illustrator
• Shorlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal
• Received Germany’s Die Kinder und Jugendbuchliste (RB/SR) award
• Made into a TV comic series

Overview

A lonely creature called Something Else is excluded from everything because he looks and behaves differently. But when an even stranger creature tries to make friends with him, Something Else doesn’t want to know – until he realises that the stranger is perhaps not so different after all.

About the Author

Kathryn Cave has written more than 20 children’s books for all ages. She lives in England.

About the Illustrator

Chris Riddell has illustrated over 100 books for children. He has won the Kate Greenaway Medal twice and the Nestle Smarties Book Prize seven times.