little fur: A Fox Called Sorrow - Isobelle Carmody

Little Fur is a half-elf, half-troll girl 

who secretly plants seeds in the city

until she must set out on a new adventure....

The fate of the elf-troll Little Fur, becomes entangled with a mysterious fox, Sorrow, who longs only for death. Together they must travel to Underth, the troll king’s underground city, on a dangerous quest to uncover his evil plans. The wise Sett Owl has foreseen that the future of the earth spirit, and perhaps all living things, depends on the success of this quest. Led by a greedy, devious rat, how can they succeed? But how can they fail, when so much is at stake?

Isobelle began the first of her highly acclaimed Obernewtyn Chronicles while she was still at high school and worked on it while completing a Bachelor of Arts and then a journalism cadetship. The first book was accepted by the first publisher she sent it to and went on to be short-listed in the Older Readers section of the Children’s Book Council Book of the Year Award for older readers. The series and her short stories have established her at the forefront of fantasy writing in Australia.

She has written many award winning short stories and books for young people since then. Scatterlings won Talking Book of the year in 1992 and in 1993 The Gathering was a joint winner of 1993 CBC Book of the Year Award and winner of the 1994 Children’s Literature Peace Prize. Billy Thunder and the Night Gate was shortlisted for the Patricia Wrightson Prize for Childrens Literature in the 2001 NSW Premiers Literary Awards. Greylands was named a White Raven at Bologna Book Fair and the title story of the Green Monkey Dream collection won Best short story in the Aurealis Awards when it was published. Darksong won an Aurealis Award in its year. Alyzon Whitestarr won a Golden Aurealis when it was published. Isobelle has also written many books for younger readers. She wrote The Wrong Thing which was illustrated by Declan Lee, Journey from the Centre of the Earth, illustrated by Mark Mc Bride and The Night School illustrated by Anne Spudvilas, was  shortlisted for an Aurealis Award in 2011. The Legend of Little Fur was Isobelle’s first series for younger readers. She illustrated this and the other three books that completed this series herself with pen and ink drawings. The Red Wind  which she also illustrated  won the CBC Book of the Year in 2011 in the Younger Readers’ Category and she is currently working on the next book in this series The Cloud Road.

Isobelle contributed to and edited a collection of short stories with Nan McNab,  Tales From The Tower, Vol 1  The Wilful Eye & Vol 2 The Wicked Wood.

Metro Winds a short story collection is Isobelles most recent work which was  published in May this year

Isobelle is also currently working on The Red Queen the final book in the Obernewtyn Chronicles due to be published in 2013.

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