Name: Millions By Frank Cottrell Boyce
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Millions Summary

Millions by Frank Cottrell Boyce

Funny, exciting and brilliantly clever, Frank Cottrell-Boyce's Millions is a fantastic adventure about two boys, one miracle and a million choices. Perfect for boys and girls of 8 to 12.

What would you do with a million pounds? Buy a thousand pizzas? Give it to charity?

When a bag stuffed full of money drops out of the sky, Damian and Anthony And themselves rich. Very rich indeed. Suddenly the brothers can buy anything they want. They've got millions - but only seventeen days to spend it.

An incredible tale of brothers and lots and lots of pizza, Millions won the CILIP Carnegie medal and is celebrating twenty years of bestselling success.

This edition of Frank Cottrell-Boyce's Carnegie Medal-winning Millions features fantastic cover artwork from the brilliant Steven Lenton.

Millions is also a major film directed by Oscar-winner Danny Boyle.

'Fresh, funny, touching and wise' The Times

Millions Reviews

Damian's voice leaps off the page and into your heart. Millions is fresh, funny, touching and wise. * The Times *
Deliciously funny * Guardian *
Pure gold * Scotsman *
Written with charm and humour, this is a touching, absorbing oddity of a book about love, grief, avarice and generosity. * Sunday Times *
Packed with wisdom and humor, this is one of the books that showed me how it was done when I was starting out -- Ben Davis, author of the Soup Movement
a joyous romp of a story that has takes young readers across the gamut of emotions. * Good Housekeeping - Top 50 Books Every Child Should Read *

About Frank Cottrell Boyce

Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Children's Laureate 20242026, is a multi award-winning childrens book author and screenwriter. He loves magic. He tries his best with playing cards, rabbits and top hats but is happiest playing with the magic of words. Hes written many award-winning childrens books including Millions, Cosmic and Noahs Gold. Hes also written films - including Millions, and Kensukes Kingdom - and helped create big events like the 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony. He lives by the sea in Liverpool. On a clear day he can see Blackpool Tower from the end of his road. On cloudy days he worries that it might have disappeared.

Steven Lenton is a multi-award-winning illustrator, originally from Cheshire, now working from his studios in Brighton and London with his dog, Big Eared Bob. He has illustrated many children's books including How To Grow A Unicorn by Rachel Morrisroe, The Taylor Turbochaser by David Baddiel, The Hundred And One Dalmatians adapted by Peter Bently, the Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam series by Tracey Corderoy and the Sainsbury's Prize-winning The Nothing To See Here Hotel series written by Steven Butler. He has illustrated two World Book Day titles and regularly appears at literary festivals and live events across the UK. Steven has his own Draw-along YouTube channel, showing how to draw a range of his characters. He has also written the multi award-nominated young fiction series Genie and Teeny.

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Sku

NGR9781035042517

ISBN 13

9781035042517

ISBN 10

1035042517

Title

Millions by Frank Cottrell Boyce

Author

Frank Cottrell Boyce

Condition

New

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Pan Macmillan

Year published

2024-07-11

Number of pages

288

Prizes

Winner of The CILIP Carnegie Medal 2004 (UK) Short-listed for Branford Boase Award 2005 (UK)

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