[1] He decided to become a writer and wrote The Song of Pentecost, featuring the adventures of a group of mice who travel to a new home.
[2] It was an international bestseller and the 1982 Whitbread Awards Children's Book of the Year.
[1] Beside the Pentecost trilogy (1982 to 1987), the books by Corbett most widely held in WorldCat libraries are The Ark of the People (1998) and The Quest for the End of the Tail (2000), featuring the tiny Willow People.
[2] Those were first two of three 300-page novels published by Hodder Children's Books, sometimes called the Ark of the People series.
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