Alex Rider Graphic Novel #1: Stormbreaker Award-winning author by Anthony Horowitz (author) (UK edition)

After his guardian dies in suspicious circumstances, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider finds his world turned upside down. Forcibly recruited into MI6 as its youngest ever spy, he is sent off to Cornwall to face his first adversary – Middle Eastern multi-billionaire Herod Sayle, inventor of the space-age Stormbreaker computer. The computer is about to be given free to every school in the country, but there’s more to the gift than meets the eye… All the furious excitement and nail-biting danger of Alex’s first adventure – in a jaw-dropping manga format which every boy will love! Cinematic, dramatic and brilliantly drawn, this graphic version of a bestselling book is great for reluctant readers.

Product Details

Series

Alex Rider Graphic Novel (book 1)

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781406340662

Publisher

Walker Books Ltd

Date published

August 2nd, 2012

Accelerated Reader

AR book level: 2.4; Middle years plus; 1.0 points

Condition

New

UK edition

Part of this Series

Alex Rider Graphic Novel

Author/Illustrator

Anthony Horowitz

Anthony Horowitz started writing because he wanted to be like Tintin. He has now travelled to all the places that Tintin has been – apart from the moon!

His Alex Rider series is one of the most popular children’s book series ever, and the first Alex Rider book, Stormbreaker, became a major Hollywood film. In 2003, Anthony won the Red House Children’s Book Award (voted for by children) for Skeleton Key.

He is also the author of the highly acclaimed Diamond Brothers detective stories, as well as the bestselling The Power of Five books, which were inspired by a simple thought. “Isn’t it more exciting to imagine these great battles with all their magic and mystery happening in the very high street where you live, just out of the corner of your eye?”

Anthony lives in central London with his wife Jill Green, a TV producer, and their sons Nicholas and Cassian. His whole family gets involved in his writing. Jill has produced several of Anthony’s scripts, including the drama serial Foyle’s War, which won the Lew Grade Audience Award in 2003. His son Cassian is already a seasoned actor, having appeared in three of his shows, and Nicholas, his oldest son, has helped Anthony to research the Alex Rider books by trying his hand at everything from scuba-diving to snowboarding and surfing!

In 2013, Anthony was awarded an OBE for services to literature..