What should you do if you turn green? Or find a million pounds? (Spend it on pizza?) What’s it like to be the first kid in space? Chances are, you’ve never even wondered. Which is exactly why you need to read these witty stories by Carnegie-winning genius Frank Cottrell-Boyce. Expand your brain and start laughing loudly! Superheroes (and not-so-super ones). Art thefts in reverse. Vanishing kids. Huge sacks of money. Real magic – and the magical bits of the plain old normal. Frank’s warm and witty books highlight the wonder in everything. Wave goodbye to boring. Say hello to awesome!

Frank Cottrell-Boyce is one of the UK’s top novelists and screenwriters

His wonderful books have won the Carnegie Medal and Guardian Prize

Frank wrote the script for the London 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony

He has also scripted films for Danny Boyle and Michael Winterbottom

Product Details

Format

Paperback

Date published

January 3rd, 2019

Condition

New

In this pack

Cosmic

Award-winning team
Framed

Award-winning team
Millions

Award-winning
Sputnik's Guide to Life on Earth

Award-winning team
The Astounding Broccoli Boy

Award-winning author

Author/Illustrator

Frank Cottrell Boyce

Frank Cottrell Boyce is a screenwriter whose films include Welcome to Sarajevo, Hilary and Jackie and Millions, which was also his first book. He has also written episodes of Coronation Street and Brookside, so you probably know his stories from your TV set. He also wrote the London 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony! His first children’s book Millions won the Carnegie medal, and was made into a film by Danny Boyle. He used to run a Punch and Judy show, earning a fortune in small change, and just like Damian in Millions, he is a Catholic who is fascinated by stories of the saints. He is not a millionaire and has no plans to rob a bank! However, during a short-lived career as an assistant at a puppet show, he earned a fortune entirely in small change. He believes this is how he first became interested in the problems created by user-unfriendly cash. Just like Damian in Millions, he is a Catholic who is fascinated by stories of the saints.

His second book, Framed was inspired by a news story he’d read in an old scrapbook: During the Second World War, a collection of valuable paintings from the National Gallery was hidden in a slate mine for safekeeping. He couldn’t resist imagining how all of that great art might have affected the people who lived near the mine.

Frank lives in Liverpool, with his wife and family of seven children.