Katya Balen

October, October

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Katya Balen's October, October is a very special new addition to the shelf and deserves classic status — Times Children's Book of the Week
A classic in the making for anyone who ever longed to be WILD.
October and her dad live in the woods. They know the trees and the rocks and the lake and stars like best friends. They live in the woods and they are wild. And that's the way it is.
Until the year October turns eleven. That's the year October rescues a baby owl. It's the year Dad falls out of the biggest tree in their woods. The year the woman who calls herself October's mother comes back. The year everything changes.
Written in Katya Balen's heart-stoppingly beautiful style, this book is a feast for the senses, filled with the woodsmoke smell of crisp autumn mornings and the sound of wellies squelching in river mud. And, as October fights to find the space to be wild in the whirling chaos of the world beyond the woods, it is also a feast for the soul.
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167 printed pages
Publication year
2020
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  • gdfuniversshared an impression3 years ago
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    Katya Balens roman OCTOBER, OCTOBER er alt det en god bog til børn skal være. Jeg tudede to gange og var lige ved at starte forfra, fordi det ikke måtte være slut. Hendes nye bog er på trapperne, illustreret af mesteren Sidney Smith. #sidneysmith #katyabalen

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  • Tania Palomohas quoted2 years ago
    I am so angry that I can feel it pouring out of my bones and into my blood and out of my skin. The space around me is coloured with my fury.
  • Tania Palomohas quoted2 years ago
    Sum‍­mer means jewel-​bright ruby to‍­ma‍­toes and em‍­er‍­ald beans glit‍­ter‍­ing from neat earthy beds with opal cab‍­bages and the topaz shim‍­mer of yel‍­low cour‍­gettes.
  • Tania Palomohas quoted2 years ago
    He never says my name once when he can say it twice, like it’s the words to a song and the sound rises like music.
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