Price
- Free
Length
- 60
VENUE: The Auditorium, The Storey, Lancaster
*Booking essential
Phil Earle: When the Sky Falls
Set during the Blitz, When the Sky Falls is a deeply affecting story of compassion, courage and the connection between people and animals. Telling of the friendship between troubled northern boy Joseph and Adonis, a silverback gorilla, it’s a story based on a true story. As well as winning the hearts and minds of legions of readers, it has been praised by reviewers and won many prizes including the British Book Awards Children’s Fiction Book of the Year and Books Are My Bag Readers’ Award. For Philip Pullman, it is ‘A magnificent story… It deserves every prize going’, while for Michael Morpurgo it’s ‘an extraordinary story’.
Phil Earle is the much-loved author of an impressive collection of award-winning books for children and teenagers. Phil found reading a struggle as a young person, but had a love of comics and graphic novels. His life changed when working in the children’s section of a bookshop. Now Phil’s infectious knowledge and enthusiasm for children’s books and his writing inspires both young and old.
AGE GUIDANCE: 10+ years
