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Sherlock Holmes Retold for Children

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English title 《 Sherlock Holmes Retold for Children 》
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★Abridged and retold for a young modern audience while remaining true to Doyle's original text.

★Perfect for young fans of mystery and detective books.

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A delightful 16-book anthology of Sherlock Holmes classic cases, retold to be accessible for young readers.

Join world-famous detective Sherlock Holmes and his ever-loyal sidekick Dr. Watson as they embark on a series of daring adventures. Priceless jewels disappear from a hotel suite, a monstrous hound is spotted on the moors and a woman is murdered in a locked room. Can our brilliant hero solve these mysteries and more before disaster strikes?

This thrilling collection brings 16 adventures of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most famous detective to life, adapted by award-winning children's fiction author Alex Woolf. Told with wit and panache, the cleverly reworked text retains many of the original turns of phrase, while simplifying and clarifying the language and plots to make stories accessible to children.

Stories include:
• The Hound of the Baskervilles
• The Speckled Band
• A Scandal in Bohemia
• The Red Headed League
• And many more!

Accompanied by delightful illustrations, these collected tales are perfect for readers aged 6+.

Author

Alex Woolf(Author)
Alex Woolf is an award-winning author of over 200 books, both fiction and non-fiction, for middle grade, YA and adults. His non-fiction encompasses a whole variety of subjects, from science and the natural world to politics and social issues, but his favourite subject is history. His 'History of the World' has sold over 100,000 copies in the English-speaking world and been translated into seven different languages since it first appeared in 2008.
Alex is a regular author for Fiction Express, online publishers of interactive stories for schools. He writes a chapter a week, and children vote on how the story should continue. Fiction Express is read by 150,000 students from 20 countries. He has won Fiction Express awards for his stories 'Mystery at Moon Base One’ and 'Cosmo Mars and the Vanishing Woman'. He was also shortlisted for the Falkirk Red Book Award for his horror novel 'Soul Shadows'. His fiction writing credits also include a science fiction trilogy, 'Chronosphere', The Shakespeare Plot, about Tudor spies, and a steampunk series, Iron Sky. His Victorian supernatural thriller Aldo Moon was one of Lovereading4kids’ books of the year.
His adult fiction includes the psychological thriller Mr Jones, published by Indie Novella. He is co-author of a comic ‘novel-in-emails', Work in Progress, published by Unbound.

Eve O'Brien
Eve O'Brien is an illustrator and picture book maker based in London, UK. She has a bachelors degree in Illustration from Plymouth University and an MA Children's Book Illustration course from the Cambridge School of Art.

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