The London Eye Mystery (2007)
Posted on: 06/09/11 BY admin
Monday, 24 May, 11.32 a.m. Ted and Kat watch their cousin Salim get on board the London Eye. He turns and waves and the pod rises from the ground.
Monday, 24 May, 12.02 p.m. The pod lands and the doors open. People exit in all shapes and sizes – but where is Salim?
Ted and his older sister Kat become sleuthing partners since the police are having no luck. Despite their prickly relationship, they overcome their differences to follow a trail of clues across London in a desperate bid to find their cousin. And ultimately it comes down to Ted, whose brain runs on its own unique operating system, to find the key to the mystery.
In Spring 2009. the Unicorn Theatre adapted The London Eye Mystery for the stage. The story was adapted by Unicorn Artistic Associate Carl Miller, directed by Rosamunde Hutt and performed by the Unicorn ensemble and received a host of rave reviews.
“It’s delightful to see the Unicorn launch its spring season headliner with such a visible spring in its step. It’s hit a bull’s-eye with Carl Miller’s charming adaptation of the 2007 children’s book by Siobhan Dowd. No wonder the sassy production has such a Tigger-esque bounce.” The Evening Standard. March 2010
The London Eye Mystery is published in the UK and the US by David Fickling Books, an imprint of Random House.
Rights Enquiries
Hilary Delamere at The Agency (London) Ltd handles all rights in Siobhan’s books please contact her at: hd-office@theagency.co.uk
Foreign Editions:
The London Eye Mystery is available in the following translations:
French-Galliamard Jeunesse
Dutch- Unieboek
Indonesian- Gramedia Publishing
German- Carlsen Verlag
Greek- Aesop
Hungarian- People Team Publishing
Korean- Thinking and Feeling Publishing
Spanish- Editorial Editex
Italian- Uovonero Edizioni
Chinese- Gaotan Culture
Awards
Winner of the Rotherham Children’s Book Award 2009
Winner of the Bisto Irish Book of the Year Award 2008
Winner of the Redhouse Children’s Book Award 2008
Longlisted for The Carnegie medal 2008
Shortlisted for the 2008 Redbridge Children’s Book of the Year
Winner of The Southwark Schools Book Awards 2008
Winner of The Doncaster Book Award 2008
Winner of TES Special Educational Needs Children’s Book Award 2007
Winner of the 2008 Cybils Young Adult Bloggers Award for middle grade fiction
Winner of the Coventry Inspiration Book Award 2009
Shortlisted for the 2008 Cheshire Schools Book Award
Shortlisted for the 2008 Lancashire School Library Service Fantastic Book Awards
Runner up in the 2008 Sefton Super Reads Award
Shortlisted for the 2008 Coventry Inspiration Book Awards
Winner of the 2008 Essex Book Awards
Shortlisted for the 2008 Brilliant Book Awards, Nottingham Schools
Shortlisted for the 2009 East Sussex Children’s Book Award
Chosen as Waterstone’s Book of the Month for June 2007 (ages 7 – 12)
Selected as one of the 12 books to be part of the ‘Booked Up’ scheme 2008 – 2009.
Featured in the US on Oprah’s ‘Must read’ list for 2008, on Oprah.com
Winner of The Salford Children’s Book Award 2009
Commended for The Sheffield Children’s Book Award 2008
Winner of The Stockport Short Novel Award 2009
Shortlisted for the Leeds Book Award 2009 in the 9-11 category
A 2008 Booklist Children’s Editors’ Choice
A 2008 New York Public Library Title for Reading and Sharing
A School Library Journal Best Book of 2008
A Spring 2008 Children’s Book Sense Pick
A 2009 – 2010 Texas Lone Star Reading List Title
Booklist starred review
The Horn Book Magazine starred review
Kirkus Reviews starred review
A Kirkus Reviews Best Children’s Book of 2008
Publishers Weekly starred review
School Library Journal starred review