Marinka's Most Magical and Heart-Stopping Quest Yet
Sophie Anderson always writes with such warmth and wonder. This sounds like a thrilling return to a beloved world, with emotion and magic in equal measure.
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The House With Chicken Legs Runs Away
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Marinka's Most Magical and Heart-Stopping Quest Yet
Sophie Anderson always writes with such warmth and wonder. This sounds like a thrilling return to a beloved world, with emotion and magic in equal measure.
- Book Synopsis
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Brimming with fairy-tale magic, friendship and extraordinary adventure, The House with Chicken Legs Runs Away is an epic, spellbinding tale set in the bestselling, award-winning world of The House with Chicken Legs.
All Marinka's life, she has lived in her house with chicken legs. Running across the world on magical adventures, Marinka knows how her house is feeling, and it listens to her, too. But something is wrong. And before anyone can stop it, the house has pulled itself apart and run away.
With her friend Benjamin and jackdaw Jack, Marinka races after the house to find answers. Travelling across far-distant lands, through new realms and magical places, Marinka must face up to her fears to save her friends. But her house might not want to stop running...
Praise for Sophie Anderson
'One of my all-time favourite storytellers.' Kiran Millwood Hargrave
'Captivating and original.' Sunday Express
'Vividly imagined.' The Sunday Times
'Sublime storytelling.' Hilary McKay
'Anderson's talent as a weaver of magic and creator of evocative landscape is growing with every book.' The Daily Mail - About The Author
- Sophie Anderson was born in Swansea, and now lives in the Lake District with her family. Her writing is most often inspired by folk and fairy stories, especially the Slavic tales her Prussian grandmother told her when she was young. Across her bestselling novels, Sophie has won the Independent Bookshop Book of the Year Award and the Wales Book of the Year Award, and been shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal twice, the Waterstones Children's Book Prize, the Blue Peter Book Award, the British Book Awards' Children's Fiction Book of the Year, the Andersen Prize, and the Branford Boase Award. Sophie's books have been translated into over twenty-five languages, and The House with Chicken Legs has been adapted for stage by Les Enfants Terribles.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781803704364
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Usborne Publishing Ltd., (09 April 2026)
- Number of Pages
- 303
- Weight
- 271 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 198 x 130 x 20 mm
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