The First Hunter
By (Author) Robert Swindells
Illustrated by Si Clark
HarperCollins Publishers
Barrington Stoke Ltd
3rd November 2016
3rd November 2016
New edition
United Kingdom
Children
Fiction
823.914
Paperback
64
Width 130mm, Height 198mm, Spine 7mm
120g
Primal, prehistoric drama fraught with tension and danger from a Carnegie Medal winning author. A new edition, now available with new artwork.
Tan and his family are scavengers, living like jackals, stealing from the kills of lions and other big cats to survive. It's no life at all. Then Wid, the simplest of them all, comes up with a daring proposal...
Robert Swindells is one of the most respected authors in the UK today. After serving in the RAF he taught for eight years before beginning to write full time. He first won the Children's Book Award in 1984 for Brother in the Land, going on to win three more times. He was awarded the Carnegie Medal in 1993 for the novel Stone Cold.