Book description
When a storm sweeps through the country, Asa wakes up the next day
to find that his town is almost unrecognisable - trees have fallen
down, roofs have collapsed and debris lies everywhere. But amongst the
debris in his back garden Asa makes an astounding discovery - the body
of a small winged creature. A creature that looks very like a fairy.
Do fairies really exist? Asa embarks on a mission to find out. A
mission that leads him to the lost journals of local eccentric
Benjamin Tooth who, two hundred years earlier, claimed to have
discovered the existence of fairies. What Asa reads in those journals
takes him on a secret trip to Windvale Moor, where he discovers much
more than he'd hoped to . . . Charming and utterly unforgettable, The
Windvale Sprites is Mackenzie Crook's debut children's novel,
containing his own exquisite illustrations.
MacKenzie Crook is a hugely diverse actor who has played a wide
variety of roles, from Ragetti in all three of the record-smashing,
swashbuckling Pirates of the Caribbean films, to the wonderful
character of Gareth in The Office and the critically acclaimed
Konstantin in the Royal Court's version of The Seagull. He has also
appeared in a whole host of other works, including films such as
Finding Neverland, Brothers Grimm and The Merchant of Venice, as well
as in the BBC Radio version of Adrian Mole, and the stage version of
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in London's West End. His debut
children's novel The Windvale Sprites is published by Faber in 2011.
