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Pure Dead #1-3
Pure Dead Magic / Pure Dead Wicked / Pure Dead Brilliant
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First published October 7, 2004
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Debi Gliori
231 books130 followersDebi Gliori (born 1959) is a Scottish author and illustrator of children's books.
She grew up as an only child in Glasgow, and when young began drawing and writing stories. She started writing children's books in 1976, and attended art school in Edinburgh from 1979 to 1984. She then received a travelling scholarship award to go to Milan, and worked as a freelance from 1984 onwards.
She is the author/illustrator of many books for children including Mr Bear, the winner of a Children's Book Award. She is best known for her black comedy Pure Dead series for older children, which display strong elements of family lives amid dark and fantasy-based plots.
She grew up as an only child in Glasgow, and when young began drawing and writing stories. She started writing children's books in 1976, and attended art school in Edinburgh from 1979 to 1984. She then received a travelling scholarship award to go to Milan, and worked as a freelance from 1984 onwards.
She is the author/illustrator of many books for children including Mr Bear, the winner of a Children's Book Award. She is best known for her black comedy Pure Dead series for older children, which display strong elements of family lives amid dark and fantasy-based plots.
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February 15, 2018
This series is really starting to grow on me. I love the wacky style and the whole atmosphere of the books. I particularly enjoyed the second one and I'm looking for ward to the rest of the series.
August 1, 2014
This series of books (including the following three installments which I have in gorgeous velvety hardbacks) is a staple of my childhood. By the time I finished them I was probably a bit old for them but there were new ones out and I had to read the next one!
The family and their beasts are stamped so firmly in my head and I still consider re-reading them even as an adult. I remember being so caught up in the stories and being torn up at the end of Deep Trouble. No book had got to me like that before.
This is a series I will always cherish and keep on my bookshelf.
The family and their beasts are stamped so firmly in my head and I still consider re-reading them even as an adult. I remember being so caught up in the stories and being torn up at the end of Deep Trouble. No book had got to me like that before.
This is a series I will always cherish and keep on my bookshelf.
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