Have you room for one more book on your bookshelf?
I must admit I felt a tad guilty only being able to pick one winner with my last giveaway so this time I'm going to have three winners who will each win one paperback by some of my favourite writers for older children (or adults with taste!) /strong>
I have read and enjoyed all three of these titles - don't worry these are new copies - and I will give you the synopsis for each to help you decide which of the books you'd like to be entered into the draw for.
You could win a copy of Meg Rosoff's 'Just in Case'...
The day David Case saves his brother's life, his whole world changes. Suddenly every moment is fizzing with what ifs, and it's up to David to outwit fate. Or try to.
He changes his name and the way he looks. He leaves home and finds himself caught up in a series of strange and extraordinary misadventures. He even falls in love. But is David really in control of his life? And if he isn't - who is?
Or a copy of Eva Ibboston's A 'Song for Summer' ...
Ellen Carr is raised to be an intellectual - but what she really wants to do is cook beautiful food. So Elen is thrilled to leave behind the grey drizzle of London and start her first job - as a housekeeper at the Hallendorf School of Music, Drama and Dance. Deep in te idyllic Austrian countryside she finds an eccentrically magical world occupied by wild children, experimental dancers, a tortoise on wheels and a mysterious young gardener called Marek. But outside this paradise, Hitler's Reich is casting its menacing shadow over Europe...
Or Frank Cottrell Boyce's 'Framed'...
'I said to myself, Dylan, there's only four things you know about painintg; the names of four painters - Donatello, Raphael, Leonardo and Michaelangelo - the party dude.'
Dylan Hughes is more interested in the Ninja Turles than in the Renaissance artists they are named after. But then Dad leaves home and, overnight, nine-year-old Dylan must become man of the household and boss of the failing family business. A masterpiece worth a mint might be just what they all need...
* For your chance to win just tell me which actor played the dad in the film version of 'Millions' Frank Cottrell Boyce's first book for children.
Email your answer and contact details to drmidas@hotmail.co.uk or post a comment (personal details will not appear). Please mark your subject line with the name of the author/s whose book you would like to try and win, e.g EVA or FRANK/MEG.
The deadline for entries is Monday, MAY 26 2008. Good luck.
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