Details
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Title
Smith: The Story of a Pickpocket (New York Review Children's Collection)
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Author
Garfield, Leon
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Binding
Hardcover
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Edition
Reprint
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Condition
New
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Pages
216
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Volumes
1
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Language
ENG
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Publisher
NYR Children's Collection
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Date
2013-10-15
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Bookseller's Inventory #
Q-1590176758
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ISBN
9781590176757 / 1590176758
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Weight
0.88 lbs (0.40 kg)
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Dimensions
8.8 x 5.54 x 0.78 in (22.35 x 14.07 x 1.98 cm)
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Ages
09 to 12 years
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Grade levels
4 - 7
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Reading level
830
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 18th Century
- Cultural Region: British
- Demographic Orientation: Urban
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Library of Congress subjects
London (England) - History - 18th century, Thieves
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Library of Congress Catalog Number
2013018766
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Dewey Decimal Code
FIC
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From the publisher
Leon Garfield (1921–1996) was born and raised in the seaside town of Brighton, England. his father owned a series of businesses, and the family’s fortunes fluctuated wildly. Garfield enrolled in art school, left to work in an office, and in 1940 was drafted into the army, serving in the medical corps. After the war, he returned to London and worked as a biochemical technician. in 1948 he married Vivian Alcock, an artist who would later become a successful writer of children’s books, and it was she who encouraged him to write his first novel, Jack Holborn, which was published in 1964. in all, Garfield would write some fifty books, including a continuation of Charles Dickens’s Mystery of Edwin Drood and retellings of biblical and Shakespearian stories. Among his best-known books are Devil-in-the-Fog (1966, winner of The Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize), The God Beneath the Sea (1970, winner of the Carnegie medal), Bostock and Harris; or, The Night of the Comet (1979; forthcoming from The New York Review Children’s Collection), and John Diamond (1980, winner of the Whitbread Award).
Media reviews
Winner of the Phoenix Award
A Boston Globe–Horn Book Award Honor Book
“Leon Garfield is unmatched for sheer exciting storytelling. The reader simply can’t stop reading him.” —Lloyd Alexander
“It is a fine thing that Leon Garfield’s rip-roaring and funny tales should be brought back into circulation for a new generation of readers.” —Joan Aiken
“Smith is one of the most interesting children’s books of the year—not only as a period tale, though in this respect it is superb, but also for the strong yet tender comment on the way people feel, now, then, and always.” —The Christian Science Monitor
“I like to think that maybe a child of today—who was like the child I was yesterday (and millions of others like me)—will remember the first reading of Smith years from now and say: Yes, that’s the book that opened windows and doors for me, the pivotal book of my childhood.” —Robert Cormier
“Vivid characters, imagery, and atmosphere combine to make this a distinguished book for casual reading or for study.” —English Journal
Citations
- Hornbook Guide to Children, 01/01/2014, Page 77
- Kirkus Reviews, 01/01/0001, Page 0
About the author
Leon Garfield (1921-1996) was born and raised in the seaside town of Brighton, England. his father owned a series of businesses, and the family's fortunes fluctuated wildly. Garfield enrolled in art school, left to work in an office, and in 1940 was drafted into the army, serving in the medical corps. After the war, he returned to London and worked as a biochemical technician. in 1948 he married Vivian Alcock, an artist who would later become a successful writer of children's books, and it was she who encouraged him to write his first novel, Jack Holborn, which was published in 1964. in all, Garfield would write some fifty books, including a continuation of Charles Dickens's Mystery of Edwin Drood and retellings of biblical and Shakespearian stories. Among his best-known books are Devil-in-the-Fog (1966, winner of The Guardian Children's Fiction Prize), The God Beneath the Sea (1970, winner of the Carnegie medal), Bostock and Harris; or, The Night of the Comet (1979; forthcoming from The New York Review Children's Collection), and John Diamond (1980, winner of the Whitbread Award).
