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A Dog So Small by Philippa Pearce
Category: Classics | Series: A\Puffin Book Ser.
For months, Ben Blewitt has been thinking about dogs. So he is very disappointed when, for his birthday, he receives not a dog, but a picture of a dog. But Ben's imagination soon gets to work, and then the strange adventures begin.
A Dog So Small (Puffin Modern Classics) by Philippa Pearce
Category: Children's Classic Fiction | Series: Puffin Modern Classics
Ben Blewitt is desperate for a dog. He's picked out the biggest and best dogs from the books in the library - and he just knows he's going to get one for his birthday. Ben is excited when the big day arrives, but he receives a picture of a dog instead of a real one! But the imagination can be a powerful ...Show more
A Finder's Magic by Philippa Pearce
Category: Children's Audio Books
A beautifully crafted fantastical mystery about a little boy called Till who loses his dog Bess. A mysterious stranger called Mr Finder offers to help Till find his dog, and they interview various witnesses including a heron, a mole, a riddling cat - and Miss Mousey, whose sketch of a peaceful riverbank ...Show more
A Finder's Magic by Philippa Pearce
Category: Children's
A beautifully crafted fantastical mystery about a little boy called Till who loses his dog Bess. A mysterious stranger called Mr Finder offers to help Till find his dog, and they interview various witnesses including a heron, a mole, a riddling cat and Miss Mousey, whose sketch of a peaceful riverban ...Show more
A Finder's Magic by Philippa Pearce
Category: Junior Fiction
A mysterious stranger called Mr Finder offers to help Till find his dog, and they interview various witnesses including a heron, a mole, a riddling cat - and Miss Mousey, whose sketch of a peaceful riverbank offers a vital clue. The quest to find Bess is full of magic but Till begins to mistrust his sup ...Show more
A Finder's Magic by Philippa Pearce
Category: Children's
This is a beautifully crafted fantastical mystery about a little boy called Till who loses his dog Bess. A mysterious stranger called Mr Finder offers to help Till find his dog, and they interview various witnesses including a heron, a mole, a riddling cat - and Miss Mousey, whose sketch of a peaceful r ...Show more
Amy's Three Best Things by Philippa Pearce
Category: Picture Books
This is a wonderfully reassuring bedtime book about staying away from home for the very first time by two major children's-book talents. Amy is going to stay with her granny on her own and she packs her three best things to take with her. On the first night she misses her family and one of her three bes ...Show more
Amy's Three Best Things by Philippa Pearce
Category: Children's
This is a wonderfully reassuring bedtime book about staying away from home for the very first time by two major children's book talents. Amy is going to stay with her granny on her own and she packs her three best things to take with her. On the first night she misses her family and one of her three bes ...Show more
Amy's Three Best Things by Philippa Pearce
Category: unmapped
A wonderfully reassuring bedtime book about staying away from home for the very first time. This magical tale, written by author Philippa Pearce, is perfectly captured by Robin Bell Corfield's beautiful, classic illustrations.
Minnow on the Say by Philippa Pearce
Category: Children's
It's a great discovery. Right there, at the bottom of the garden, bobbing on the river, is a canoe. The Minnow. David can't help wishing he could keep her ...The Minnow leads him to Adam, and an extraordinary summer begins. Armed with a mysterious, ancient clue, the two boys set out along the river b ...Show more
Minnow on the Say by Philippa Pearce
Category: Fiction
David can't believe his eyes when he discovers the canoe at the bottom of the garden - The Minnow. He traces the owner and together they begin a summer of adventure, looking for treasure along the river.