Crow Nicola Skinner 9781800902190

When lonely Hattie feels out of place at her new school, she creates a scarecrow - Crow. Hattie wants him to guard the den she finds in the playground, the only place she feels happy and comfortable.

Poor Crow really just wants to have fun with the other children, but he takes his job for Hattie very seriously and his behaviour starts to get scarier and scarier.

Will Hattie realise that Crow is ruining her chance to make new friends before it's too late?

Nicola Skinner is a critically acclaimed children's author whose debut novel, Bloom, became a Guardian Book of the Year and was longlisted for the Blue Peter and Branford Boase awards. An exciting and unique voice in children's literature, Nicola's books have been picks for the Sunday Times Children's Book of the Week, the Guardian Book of the Month and The Bookseller Editor's Pick.

"Darkly humorous, emotionally intelligent and astutely aware supernatural schoolyard story ... Crow's deliciously dark personality serves up some fabulously funny moments with that slight macabre edge ... will go down very well with any child who is experiencing upheaval in their own lives." -- A Word About Books, Blog