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'Pearl and Vally Cole live in a bookshop. And not just any bookshop. In 1893, Cole's Book Arcade in Melbourne is the grandest bookshop in the world, brimming with every curiosity imaginable. Each day brings fresh delights for the siblings: voice-changing sweets, talking parrots, a new story written just for them by their eccentric father.
'When Pearl and Vally learn that Pa has risked the Arcade - and himself - in a shocking deal with the mysterious Obscurosmith, the siblings hatch a plan. Soon they are swept into a dangerous game with impossibly high stakes: defeat seven challenges by the stroke of midnight and both the Arcade and their father will be restored. But if they fail Pearl and Vally won't just lose Pa - they'll forget that he and the Arcade ever existed.' (Publication summary)
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Other Formats
- Sound recording.
- Dyslexic edition.
Works about this Work
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[Review] 'Under the Rainbow : The Life and Times of EW Cole by Richard Broinowski' and 'The Grandest Bookshop in the World' by Amelia Mellor
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: Biblionews and Australian Notes and Queries , March no. 409 2021;
— Review of Under the Rainbow : The Life and Times of E.W. Cole 2020 single work biography ; The Grandest Bookshop in the World 2020 single work children's fiction
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[Review] 'Under the Rainbow : The Life and Times of EW Cole by Richard Broinowski' and 'The Grandest Bookshop in the World' by Amelia Mellor
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: Biblionews and Australian Notes and Queries , March no. 409 2021;
— Review of Under the Rainbow : The Life and Times of E.W. Cole 2020 single work biography ; The Grandest Bookshop in the World 2020 single work children's fiction
Awards
- 2021 shortlisted HNSA Historical Novel Prize — Children and Young Adult
- 2021 shortlisted Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards — Eight to 10 Years
- 2021 shortlisted Davitt Award — Best Debut
- 2021 shortlisted Davitt Award — Best Children's Novel
- 2021 winner Booksellers Choice Award — Children's Book of the Year
- Melbourne, Victoria,