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A Treasury of Fairy Tales by Helen Cresswell
Category: Children's
A sumptuous collection of favourite tales, with exquisitely detailed plates and decorative vignettes by illustrator, Sian Bailey. Open this book and enter the magical world of fairy tales, a land of mystery and enchantment, alive with handsome princes, wicked queens and beautiful heroines. This classica ...Show more
A Treasury of Fairy Tales by Helen Cresswell
Category: Picture Books
A sumptuous collection of favourite tales, with exquisitely detailed plates and decorative vignettes by illustrator, Sian Bailey. Open this book and enter the magical world of fairy tales, a land of mystery and enchantment, alive with handsome princes, wicked queens and beautiful heroines. This classica ...Show more
Absolute Zero (The Bagthorpe Saga #2) by Helen Cresswell
Category: Classics | Series: Collins Modern Classics
The second book in the super-funny classic series The Bagthorpe Saga, starring the TOTALLY unforgettable Bagthorpe family - from best-loved author Helen Cresswell. Bad, mad and brilliant to know - the Bagthorpes are back! Something even stranger than normal is happening in the Bagsthorpe house. Ever sin ...Show more
Lizzie Dripping by Helen Cresswell
Category: Children's
Everyone in the village where Lizzie lives thinks that she's a dreamer. So it's no wonder that they don't believe her when she says she's seen a witch. But Lizzie doesn't care, because she knows it's true and having a witch for a friend makes life much more exciting. Helen Cresswell is a well-known writ ...Show more
Moondial by Helen Cresswell
Category: Children's Classic Fiction | Series: Faber Children's Classics
A new edition of the well-loved classic story.Even before she came to Belton, Minty Cane had known that she was a witch, or something very like it...Minty is the kind of girl who notices things. Pockets of cold air on a stairway. Cries on the wind. Ghosts.On night-time jaunts from the house where she's ...Show more
Mystery Stories by Cresswell Helen
Category: Fiction
Extraordinary events and mysterious circumstances fill this eerie collection of nineteen stories. Music takes a boy to a strange place, a scythe compels its users to slash on and on, a jacket is possessed and a beautiful woman turns into a vampire. Other strange and unsettling encounters grip the imagin ...Show more
Ordinary Jack (The Bagthorpe Saga #1) by Helen Cresswell
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: The Bagthorpe Saga
First in the super-funny classic series starring the TOTALLY unforgettable Bagthorpe family - from best-loved author Helen Cresswell. Jack's fed up of living in the shadow of his brilliant siblings. He and his trusty dog Zero are completely ordinary while the rest of them are annoyingly gifted. So when ...Show more
The Bongleweed by Helen Cresswell
Category: Fiction
A hilarious story about The Bongleweed, a weird and wonderful plant that's threatening to take over the village. It's up to Becky and Jason to try and stop the wickedly wild weed before it's too late...