By Eva Ibbotson
Are you courageous sufficient to determine what occurs while a spoilt lady is spiteful to a tremendous hungry malicious program? are you able to undergo to monitor a (very foolish) boy poke an indignant sound asleep sea-monster? Do you DARE to find why in case you by no means, ever thieve milk from a Frid?* pay attention: Naughty childrens constantly get their simply deserts ...*A dog-munching rock. Doesn't each person comprehend that?
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Here are 8 gloriously inventive tales for 8 pleasant periods of bedtime analyzing. There's a flying apple pie, a cat that's higher than an elephant, a home that lays an egg, storybook animals that bounce out in their books at evening, and a wealth of alternative incredible characters and ideas, all with the colourful, dreamlike caliber of some of the best fairy tales.
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ISBN: 0224614622
EAN: 9780224614627
ASIN: 0224614622
SKU: YU-KNH0007073
Publisher: Doubleday
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Author identify: joan aiken (Born: 1924/09/04 / Died: 2004/01/04)
Author Description: Joan Delano Aiken was once a miles enjoyed English author who bought the MBE for companies quite to Children's Literature. This yr marks the fiftieth ANNIVERSARY of her most famed vintage children's publication, THE WOLVES OF WILLOUGHBY CHASE, that's being celebrated with occasions at Cheltenham competition within the united kingdom and at a different occasion in manhattan in October, and with the booklet of 3 fresh variations of the booklet and a brand new AUDIO recorded through her daughter Lizza.
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Joan's Life:
She used to be born in Rye, East Sussex, right into a family members of writers, together with her father, Conrad Aiken (who received a Pulitzer Prize for his poetry), and her sister, Jane Aiken Hodge.
She labored for the United countries info place of work through the moment international war,and then as an editor and freelance on Argosy journal earlier than she began writing complete time, normally children's books and thrillers. For her books she got the dad or mum Award (1969) and the Edgar Allan Poe Award (1972).
Her most well-liked sequence, the "Wolves Chronicles" which started with 'The Wolves of Willoughby Chase', used to be set in an complicated exchange interval of heritage in a Britain during which James II used to be by no means deposed within the excellent Revolution,and so supporters of the home of Hanover continuously plot to overthrow the Stuart Kings. those books additionally function cockney urchin heroine Dido Twite and her adventures and travels all around the world.
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Her many novels for adults comprise a number of that proceed or supplement novels by means of Jane Austen. those comprise 'Mansfield Revisited' and 'Jane Fairfax'.
Aiken used to be a lifelong fan of ghost tales. She set her grownup supernatural novel The Haunting Of Lamb residence at Lamb condo in Rye (now a countrywide belief property). This ghost tale recounts in fictional shape an alleged haunting skilled by way of former citizens of the home, Henry James and E. F. Benson, either one of whom additionally wrote ghost tales. Aiken's father, Conrad Aiken, additionally authored a small variety of striking ghost stories.
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