Harry Millers Run by David Almond

290 in stock

216mm x 177mm x 11mm

Pages: 64

Thats reet, lad! Run! Theres a wolf at your tail! Run for your lovely life! A joyful, uplifting story of times gone by, from the internationally acclaimed author of Skellig, illustrated in full colour by the award-winning illustrator of A Walk in London.

Liam just wants to go out running with his mates GÇô itGÇÖs not long till the Junior Great North Run, and thereGÇÖs training to be done. But Mam needs him today, to help old Harry clear out his house. Harry knows a thing or two about running. When he was a lad, he says, he ran all the way from Newcastle to South Shields. GÇ£But Harry,GÇ¥ says Mam, GÇ£thatGÇÖs thirteen miles!GÇ¥ Harry grins. GÇ£Different times,GÇ¥ he says. This is the story of that day: of sweltering heat, clattering boots, briny sea air and the heavenly taste of ice cream; the day when Harry and his pals ran and ran and ran through the blazing sunlight all the way to the sea.