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"Warm, smart, and completely lovable: Miranda." -- Kirkus Reviews, StarredA touching new tale of hope and miracles from the award-winning Siobhan Parkinson.I love Miranda and so will you - Eoin Colfer, author of Artemis Fowl Miranda has a Big Imagination, and always wins Word of the Day at school. When her sister Gemma is taken into hospital, Miranda escapes into her own fantasy land, Magnanimous. With giraffe police, ham sandwich trees and a Crystal-Clear Glass Hospital for Getting-Better Children, Magnanimous grows and grows. As her sister gets worse, things Miranda writes seem to trigger small miracles she has been asking for: her gran stops smoking, horrible Darren Hoey is nice to her ... Can Miranda write a miracle for her sister?
About the Author
I was born in Dublin, the capital city of Ireland, more years ago than you need to know. When I was a child, I lived in Loughrea in CountyGalway (and I still have lots of relations there) , Galway city and Letterkenny in County Donegal. And then I came back to Dublin, to Trinity College, and (apart from a year spent in Munich) , I have lived in Dublin ever since. I like it here. I like going away, but I love coming home. I've been writing books for more years than you have been alive (if you are one of my typical readers, ie under the age of about fourteen) , and there are quite a lot of them by now. I love writing for kids, because kids are the BEST readers in the world. This is a scientific fact. Sometimes I also write for adults, but only sometimes.As well as writing, I also translate children's books (from German) . That's why some of the books on my author page are by other people -- I translated them, but somebody else wrote them (in German) . I also publish children's books (ones written by other people, I mean) , in my teeny tiny publishing company, Little Island Books, which lives in what used to be my dining room. (I have a very short commute in the mornings.) I am visually impaired, which means I don't see very well and I can't read books or newspapers. (I can read on the computer, because I can make the words very big.) This is not a great thing for a writer, because of course writers need to read a lot. So mostly I read ebooks or listen to audiobooks. I LOVE audiobooks. (Though they do tend to put me to sleep; this can be a problem, especially if you are on the bus. I am often on the bus.) I think that's enough about me.
