Stone Cold (Swindells novel)

Stone Cold

First edition
Author Robert Swindells
Cover artist Paul Hunt.
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Genre Young adult fiction, realist novel, horror
Publisher Heinemann
Publication date
1993
Media type Print (hardcover)
Pages 132 pp (first edition)
ISBN 0-241-13300-9
OCLC 31627736

Stone Cold is a realistic young-adult novel by Robert Swindells, published by Heinemann in 1993. Set on the streets of London, the first-person narrative switches between Link, a newly homeless sixteen-year-old adjusting to his situation, and Shelter, an ex-army officer scorned after being dismissed from his job, supposedly on 'medical grounds'.

Swindells won the annual Carnegie Medal recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject[1]

WorldCat participating libraries report holding Danish, German, Catalan, Slovenian, and Korean-language editions.[2]

Television

In 1997, the novel was adapted for a television series of the same title, starring James Gaddas, Peter Howitt and Elizabeth Rider, produced by Andy Rowley which was nominated for a Best Children's Drama Award at BAFTA.[3] The short series was shown on Scene BBC Two. It can also be viewed on YouTube. [4]

See also

References

  1. (Carnegie Winner 1993). Living Archive: Celebrating the Carnegie and Greenaway Winners. CILIP. Retrieved 2012-07-27.
  2. "Formats and Editions of Stone cold". WorldCat. Retrieved 2012-09-10.
  3. "Stone Cold (1997) on the Internet Movie Database". Retrieved 2010-03-15.
  4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj3e9XtRGbs
Awards
Preceded by
Flour Babies
Carnegie Medal recipient
1993
Succeeded by
Whispers in the Graveyard
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