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Back to the Local by Maurice Gorham; Edward Ardizzone (Illustrator)
Category: Travel
A delightful, nostalgic ramble around the hostelries of London from a bygone age.
Diana and Her Rhinoceros by Edward Ardizzone
Category: Children's
Diana Effingham-Jones is a sensible child. So she does not panic when an escaped rhinoceros with a horrid cold walks into her sitting-room one winter evening. Instead she gives him a rhinoceros-sized serving of Influenza Mixture, cough cure and aspirins, and plenty of hot buttered toast. A classic story ...Show more
Johnny the Clockmaker by Edward Ardizzone
Category: Children's
Johnny loves making things and whenever he has spare time he can be found hammering and banging and sawing up pieces of wood. But his parents don't think much of his hobby. 'Oh dear!' they cry whenever he begins, 'JOHNNY IS UP TO HIS NONSENSE AGAIN.' So it comes as no surprise that when he decides to ma ...Show more
Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain by Edward Ardizzone
Category: Children's | Series: Little Tim
Things don't go to plan for Tim, the youngest ever sailor, when he stows away on board a steamer!
Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain by Edward Ardizzone
Category: Picture Books | Series: Little Tim
Reissue of the first title in the much-loved Little Tim series. A young boy wants to be a sailor, but his parents say he is much too young. Tim grabs the chance to stow away on a steamer, but little does he expect the hard work, stormy sea and sinking ship to come! Little Tim's adventures at sea have de ...Show more
Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain by Edward Ardizzone
Category: Fiction | Series: Little Tim S.
Join Little Tim on his first exciting adventure at sea. In this story, he meets Captain McFee and embarks on his very first voyage...Tim's courage is tested to the utmost when his ship starts to sink.
Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain (Collector's Edition) by Edward Ardizzone
Category: Graphic Novels | Series: Little Tim
80th anniversary edition of the first title in the much-loved Little Tim series, beautifully produced in the same size as one of the first editions, with original hand-lettering. A young boy wants to be a sailor, but his parents say he is much too young. Tim grabs the chance to stow away on a steamer, b ...Show more
Pinky Pye by Edward (ILT) Eleanor; Ardizzone Estes
Category: Middle Readers | Series: GINGER PYE
Sarah and Simon and No Red Paint by Edward Ardizzone
Category: Picture Books
Here is the story of two children, Sarah and Simon, whose father is a painter, and who live with their parents and baby brother in a big room called a Studio. Their father is talented, but unacknowledged, and so the family is poor, though very happy. When the story opens, the father is painting his mast ...Show more
Sarah and Simon and No Red Paint by Edward Ardizzone
Category: Graphic Novels
Sarah and Simon live with their father and mother and their baby brother in a big room called a studio. Their father is an artist, and he is busy painting his masterpiece. When it is finished, they will become rich and famous, but in the meantime they are poor, yet very happy. Then one day their father ...Show more
Ship's Cook Ginger by Edward Ardizzone
Category: unmapped | Series: Little Tim S.
'Tim dashed down to the galley. There he found the cook lying on the floor. When the cook saw Tim he gave a groan and said, "Don't eat the pie," and then fainted dead away.' When the crew of the Claribel fall sick, the second mate takes charge. He orders Tim to steer East - but Tim knows that this will ...Show more
The Little Girl and the Tiny Doll by Aingelda Ardizzone, Edward Ardizzone and Aingelda Ardizzone
Category: Early Reader | Series: A\Puffin Book Ser.
There was once a tiny doll who belonged to a girl who did not care for dolls. One day when the little girl was shopping in the supermarket with her mother, she threw the tiny doll into a deep freeze. So the tiny doll had to stay there, cold and lonely, and frightened by people shuffling all the food rou ...Show more