Elementals: Water

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The shriek of the wind, calling the waters to rebel - and a silver man from the sea with a voice like the roar of a seashell- A long-told story of the sea people and their song - and a golden eye, glittering in a pool at the edge of a desert- A ferocious serpent, its body as thick as the trunk of a large tree - and the immense, unknowable Kraken, dark beyond black, cold beyond ice, waking on the ocean floor-A mesmerising collection of short stories inspired by the element of Water - readers will be swept away by the superb storytelling skills of two major award-winning authors.'The stories flow through the pages- plenty here to make you believe in magical worlds and dreams' The Bookseller

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Biography for Peter Dickinson PETER DICKINSON has won numerous prizes for his books for young readers, including the Carnegie Medal (twice), the Guardian Award and the Whitbread Literary Award (again, twice). His previous titles for Transworld have included a number of novels for teenage readers, as well as the enchanting Time and the Clock Mice, Etcetera. Author lives: Hampshire Biography for Robin McKinley Robin McKinley is an American writer and has won many awards in the US, including the Newbery Medal for THE HERO AND THE CROWN and a Newbery Honor for THE BLUE SWORD. She now lives in Hampshire with her husband, author Peter Dickinson, three whippets, five hundred rose bushes and a 1965 cream-coloured MGB convertible.