Hey, buster! Normal life is a total yawn. Break out of boredom with Ruby Redfort, the super-awesome creation from multi-million-copy bestseller Lauren Child…Hey, buster! Normal life is a total yawn. Break out of boredom with Ruby Redfort, the super-awesome creation from multi-million-copy bestseller Lauren Child…Want to know more? Of course you do, bozo.Here’s the low-down on Ruby Redfort: she’s a genius code-cracker, a daring detective, and a gadget-laden special agent who just happens to be a thirteen-year-old girl. She and her slick side-kick butler, Hitch, foil crimes and get into loads of scrapes with evil villains, but they’re always ice-cool in a crisis.In LOOK INTO MY EYES, we go right back to Ruby’s beginnings as an agent. When an anonymous caller sets Ruby a challenge, it’s not long before she finds her way into the HQ of the most secret of secret agencies – SPECTRUM. They need her help to crack a code but her desk job soon spirals into an all-out action adventure, as Ruby uncovers the dastardly plans of the formidable Fool’s Gold Gang…Praise for Lauren Child:‘Lauren Child is a publishing phenomenon’ – Observer Magazine‘Lauren Child is so good it’s exhilarating’ – The IndependentPraise for the Ruby Redfort series:‘The coolest girl hero in years … Child refuses to write down to her tween and teen audience and challenges readers with more twists than a curling tongs party’ The Times‘Redfort is one of the best things to happen to ten-plus British fiction’ The Times‘The new Ruby Redfort book is utterly exceptionordinarily brilliant’ – Clarice Bean‘Lauren Child has put imagination and fun back into the real worlds of childhood’ – Julia Eccleshare, Guardian‘Cool, punchy, stylish’ – Sun‘A cracking adventure’ – Mail‘What more could adventure-loving girls want?’ – The Sunday TimesLauren Child burst on to the children’s books scene in 1999 and has since published many bestselling and award-winning books, including those featuring the hugely popular Charlie and Lola, and the Clarice Bean series. She has won numerous awards including the prestigious Kate Greenaway Medal and the Smarties Gold Award. Her books have been made into an award-winning TV series and have sold in many languages with runaway success.Requires internet connection for purchase, plus iPod or other Audible-compatible player or iTunes software on Mac OS X or Windows•Extraordinarily brilliant! Former Waterstones Children’s Laureate Lauren Child is the award-winning, best-selling author of Charlie and Lola and Clarice Bean and has sold 6 million books worldwide•Hey buster, you asked for it and so did zillions of kids! Trailed to fans for over 9 years; child genius and super-spy Ruby Redfort first appeared in the Clarice Bean books as the star of Clarice’s utterly favourite books The Ruby Redfort Collection•So what is this, geek central? American 13 year old Ruby Redfort is super-clever and totally streetwise, with an individual style and quick witted one-liners. There’s a genuine gap in the tween fiction market for an aspirational lead girl character and Ruby is destined to become every smart girl’s heroine• Fantastic website packed with fun games, codes to solve and activities galore, www.rubyredfort.com.
Publicat de: HarperCollins Publishers