Martin Coles has spent a lifetime working with and for children. His career includes being a primary school teacher in Zambia, an academic at the University of Nottingham, a local authority officer and the principal of a large international school in The Netherlands. He has published widely on children’s reading and co-edited the highly successful Literacy Land reading scheme. He holds degrees from Oxford, London and Nottingham universities. He has two daughters and four grandsons. One of his favourite pastimes is snow-shoeing in the mountains in winter, in the snow and ice.
Not many boys have to go in search of their missing father, but Billy Winter does. Billy steals aboard a cargo ship heading north to Alaska where his father was last seen. On the ship he is befriended by Sergeant Le Bulle, an off-duty Alaskan state trooper.In Alaska they set off on sleds pulled by h...