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A Necklace of Raindrops by Joan Aiken; Jan Pienkowski (Illustrator)
Category: Classics
Here are eight gloriously imaginative stories for eight satisfying sessions of bedtime reading. There’s a flying apple pie, a cat that’s bigger than an elephant, a house that lays an egg, storybook animals that leap out of their books at night, and a wealth of other wonderful characters and ideas, all w ...Show more
A Necklace of Raindrops by Joan Aiken; Lizza Aiken (Read by)
Category: Audio
Here are eight gloriously imaginative stories for eight satisfying sessions of bedtime reading. There’s a flying apple pie, a cat that’s bigger than an elephant, a house that lays an egg, storybook animals that leap out of their books at night, and a wealth of other wonderful characters and ideas, all w ...Show more
A Necklace of Raindrops by Joan Aiken; Lizza Aiken (Read by)
Category: Audio
" The cat sat on the mat. Lots of cats do that, everybody knows. And nothing strange comes of it. But once a cat sat on a mat and something strange did come of it. In Joan Aiken s classic story collection, the strange often happens, and with fantastic consequences... Characters spring out of their books ...Show more
Arabel, Mortimer and the Escaped Black Mamba (Arabel and Mortimer #2) by Joan Aiken
Category: Children's | Series: Arabel and Mortimer
When Arabel and the raven Mortimer spend a fun-packed evening with their favourite babysitter, Chris Cross, they have no idea of the chaos they create in their wake. A reckless game of dressing up and hide and seek results in a big crash, a trumpet wedged onto Mortimer's head and a milk shortage. While ...Show more
Arabel and Mortimer Stories by Joan Aiken
Category: Junior Fiction
When Arabel's father drives his taxi home late one night he comes across 'a large black bird, with a hairy fringe around its beak.' He takes it home and, from that moment on, life is never the same again for the Jones family. Arabel's raven is called Mortimer - and he's one in a million. 'Nevermore!' h ...Show more
Arabel's Raven by Joan Aiken
Category: Junior Fiction
When Mr Jones brings home an injured raven, his four-year-old daughter Arabel falls in love at first sight. She names the bird Mortimer and the pair soon find themselves involved in a series of adventures.
Arabel's Raven (Arabel and Mortimer #1) by Joan Aiken
Category: Young Readers | Series: Arabel and Mortimer
The first story about Arabel and her pet raven Mortimer. In Arabel's Raven, Mr Jones, while driving his taxi, notices something bedraggled in the road. He stops and discovers an injured raven. He takes it home and his four-year-old daughter Arabel falls in love at first sight. 'His name is Mortimer,' sh ...Show more
Black Hearts in Battersea by Joan Aiken
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Wolves of Willoughby Chase Ser.
"Wait, wait! Save us! What ll we do? /i>imon is determined to become a painter when he grows up so he sets off to London to make his fortune. But the city is plagued by wolves and mysterious disappearances. The Twite household, where Simon is lodging, seems particularly shifty. Before he even gets a ...Show more
Black Hearts in Battersea by AIKEN JOAN
Category: Children's
Simon, the foundling from The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, arrives in London to meet an old friend and pursue the study of painting. Instead he finds himself unwittingly in the middle of a wicked crew's fiendish caper to overthrow the good King James and the Duke and Duchess of Battersea. With the help o ...Show more
Black Hearts in Battersea (Wolves of Willoughby Chase #2) by Joan Aiken
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Wolves of Willoughby Chase
'Wait, wait! Save us! What'll we do?' Simon is determined to become a painter when he grows up so he sets off to London to make his fortune. But the city is plagued by wolves and mysterious disappearances. The Twite household, where Simon is lodging, seems particularly shifty. Before he even gets a chan ...Show more
Bridle the Wind (Felix #2) by Joan Aiken
Category: Children's | Series: Felix
Packed-off to boarding school and bullied by his peers, Felix feels sad and trapped. Although he has a home in England, his heart lies in Spain - so he runs away. But Felix's journey is cut short when his ship is caught in a storm off the French coast. Despite being shipwrecked and then held prisoner in ...Show more
CUCKOO TREE by AIKEN JOAN
Category: Children's
When Dido Twite sets foot back on English soil, more mischief awaits. As her friend Captain Hughes recovers from a carriage accident, Dido stays at the Dogkennel Cottages and meets the odd inhabitants of Tegleaze Manor: strange old Lady Tegleaze, her nephew, Tobit, and his wizened, witchy nurse, Sannie. ...Show more