Fish Boy. Chloe Daykin (Faber Faber) When you’re scared and trapped, you feel all at sea. That’s how Billy, aka ‘Fish Boy‘ feels. From home to school, everything is pressured and uncertain, and only the sea offers escape and opportunity. Then, he hears, ‘Kezdodik’ from a silver scaled mackerel. · Fish Boy is Chloe Daykin's first novel, which she wrote while studying for her MA in Creative Writing at Newcastle University. It won the Northern Writers Award in June , and has already garnered huge critical acclaim. An artist, designer, playwright and teacher, Chloe lives in Author: Chloe Daykin. · Read the latest reviews for Fish Boy by Chloe Daykin and Richard Jones at www.doorway.ru, the UK's largest children's book review community with over 95, reviews.
Chloe Daykin is the author of Fish Boy ( avg rating, ratings, 54 reviews, published ), The Boy Who Hit Play ( avg rating, ratings, Faber Authors. Chloe Daykin. Chloe Daykin. Chloe Daykin. An artist, designer, award-winning playwright and teacher, Chloe Daykin lives in Northumberland. Her debut, Fish Boy, won the Northern Writers Award, was shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award and was published to huge critical acclaim. This is her third for middle grade readers. Fish Boy is written by Chloe Daykin and published by Faber Faber. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for Fish Boy are , Save up to 80% versus print by going digital with VitalSource.
Fish Boy by Chloe Daykin, with illustrations by Richard Jones Every now and then you read a book that is quite unlike anything else you’ve read. In Fish Boy we meet Billy, a young boy who is lonely and struggling to make friends at school; his great obsession is swimming in the sea, where his problems on land are washed away in the currents. Billy has a passion for natural history; through a stream of quotes from BBC Natural History Programmes, the soothing, authoritative voice of David. Chloe Daykin is the author of Fish Boy ( avg rating, ratings, 54 reviews, published ), The Boy Who Hit Play ( avg rating, ratings, Chloe lives down a bumpy track by a river in Northumberland with her husband and two boys. She used to be a fencer and is a lover of afternoon teas and ping pong. Fish Boy is Chloe's first novel for middle grade readers and will be published by Faber in and is already drawing comparisons to the work of David Almond, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Louis Sachar and R.J. Palacio.
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