Beschreibung:
Robert Swindells (geb. 1939 Bradford) gehört zu den bekanntesten englischen Jugendbuchautoren der 90er Jahre. Bereits als Fünfzehnjähriger verließ er die Schule, um bei einer Zeitung als Korrekturleser zu arbeiten. Mit siebzehn ging er für drei Jahre zur englischen Luftwaffe, um sich danach auf dem zweiten Bildungsweg zum Lehrer auszubilden. Heute lebt der Autor in Oxenhope (Yorkshire). Für seine Werke wurde er mit dem "Guardian Children's Fiction Award" und der "Carnegie Medal" ausgezeichnet.
Once a creature is extinct, it's gone for ever, isn't it?Not any more - as a butterfly from the past proves. The physicist mother of Kizzy Rye and Fraser Rye has invented an amazing time machine that can travel back into the past, snatch a plant or animal now extinct and bring it back into the present.It's a wonderful achievement, a real scientific breakthrough. But the machine - 'Rye's Apparatus' - has a horrifying potential. Suddenly Kizzy and Fraser find themselves caught up in a terrifying spiral of events - events that lead finally to a monstrous demand from a sinister and violent organization...WINNER OF THE 1995 EARTHWORM AWARD, 7-11 YEAR-OLD CATEGORY
Once a creature is extinct, it's gone for ever, isn't it?Not any more - as a butterfly from the past proves. The physicist mother of Kizzy Rye and Fraser Rye has invented an amazing time machine that can travel back into the past, snatch a plant or animal now extinct and bring it back into the present.It's a wonderful achievement, a real scientific breakthrough. But the machine - 'Rye's Apparatus' - has a horrifying potential. Suddenly Kizzy and Fraser find themselves caught up in a terrifying spiral of events - events that lead finally to a monstrous demand from a sinister and violent organization...WINNER OF THE 1995 EARTHWORM AWARD, 7-11 YEAR-OLD CATEGORY