The Ape Star

The Ape Star
Frida Nilsson
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NZ$ 19.99
Paperback
h204 x 144mm - 200pg
3 Aug 2022 NZ
International import eta 7-19 days
9781776574223
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In this award-winning chapter book about prejudice and justice, an orphan girl is adopted by a gorilla who owns a junkyard. A surprising friendship grows between them. Jonna lives in an orphanage whose manager is strict and obsessed with cleanliness. Like all the other children, Jonna has only one dream: to be adopted by a well-dressed mother who smells of perfume. But one day, a beat-up car pulls up. The door opens and out step two thick hairy legs with muddy boots, followed by a belly as round as a barrel, and finally, a head like an overgrown pear. It' s a gorilla! Surely the orphanage won' t let a gorilla adopt a child. But, to Jonna' s horror, the gorilla chooses her. . . Eventually Jonna and the gorilla start to get along, until a man from the council threatens to send Jonna back to the orphanage. The Ape Star is a heartwarming and unconventional chapter book about love, adoption, friendship, and seeing from different perspectives.
Frida Nilsson is a leading Swedish author who has been an August Prize nominee three times and won the Astrid Lindgren Prize in 2014. In 2017 she was selected as one of Europe' s best emerging writers for young people through the Hay Festival' s Aarhus 39. Her books have been translated throughout Europe and nominated for the prestigious Youth Literature Prize in Germany and literary awards throughout Europe.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781776574223
Published: 3 Aug 2022
Published In: New Zealand
Imprint: Gecko Press
Publisher: Gecko Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 204mm
Width: 144mm
Pages: 200

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