Waterslain Angels

In the village of Waterslain in Norfolk, in the 1950s, a fragment from a carved angel's wing is discovered. Maybe the wooden angels that once supported the church roof were not, after all, destroyed centuries ago, but spirited away to safety. Two children decide to find them.

A strange inscription on the church wall leads them into terrifying places- up to the top of the church tower, down a tunnel where they are nearly drowned. Annie dreams of the man who was sent in by Cromwell to smash up the church, and of angels flying and falling. For Sandy, whose father, an American airman, was recently killed, the angels bring comfort. The whereabouts of the angels becomes clear to them- but then they discover that other people are hunting from them, and are determined to stop the children at all costs…

Kevin Crossley-Holland won the Carnegie Medal in 1985 for STORM. His many notable books for adults and children include poetry, classic retellings and anthologies. He has written and presented many BBC radio programmers' and is a frequent speaker at schools and libraries. For some years he held a university post in Minnesota. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. The Seeing Stone won the prestigious Guardian Children's Fiction Prize in 2001 and At the Crossing Places won a Silver award at the 2001 SWPA Spoken Word Awards.

Waterslain Angels
Hachette Children's Books
Author: Kevin Crossley-Holland
ISBN: 9781842556917
Price: $28.99

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