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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 and Mortimer Stories by Joan Aiken
Category: Children's Classics
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
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 (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
Cold Shoulder Road by Joan Aiken
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Wolves Chronicles Ser.
Is Twite and her cousin, Arun, use their telepathic gifts to find Arun's missing mother in this gripping adventure set in an alternate British kingdom When Is Twite and her cousin, Arun, return to Cold Shoulder Road in Folkestone after their astonishing adventures in the North, the town is deserted and ...Show more
Dido and Pa by Joan Aiken
Category: Fiction
Readers who have followed Dido Twite's escapades in Black Hearts in Battersea and Nightbirds on Nantucket will welcome her return in another wild adventure. Now back in print, Dido and Pa continues the Wolves Chronicles, the exhilarating and imaginative series that stemmed from Joan Aiken's classic The ...Show more
Emma Watson by Joan Aiken; Jane Austen
Category: Fiction
Emma Watson has been brought up by her aunt in a wealthy and refined household, an educated lifestyle far removed from her widowed father and five siblings. So when her aunt enters into an imprudent second marriage, nineteen-year-old Emma is sent back home and must join her sisters in their pursuit of a ...Show more
Limbo Lodge by Joan Aiken
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Wolves of Willoughby Chase Ser.
"Dido Twite on board a ship bound for England is waylaid by a search for Lord Herodsfoot on the tropical island of Aratu. Aratu means the Island of Pearl Snakes in the Dilendi language and a bite from one of them can do for you in a brace of shakes. That is only one of many hazards encountered by Dido a ...Show more
Mortimer and the Sword Excalibur (Arabel and Mortimer #5) by Joan Aiken; Quentin Blake (Illustrator)
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: Arabel and Mortimer
This is the fifth title about Arabel and her beloved but impossible raven, Mortimer. An enormous hole is being dug in the park and rumour has it that King Arthur's round table is buried there. None of this interests Mortimer however; his fancy has been taken by the giant grass-cutting machine, the Lawn ...Show more
Night Birds on Nantucket (Wolves of Willoughby Chase #3) by Joan Aiken
Category: Children's Books | Series: The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
Shipwrecked Dido Twite is picked up by a whaling ship - and then finds herself sinking deeper and deeper into trouble-'A zany, original historical fantasy involving a plot to blow up James III with a long-range gun' Sunday Telegraph.
Stoneywish and Other Chilling Stories by Joan Aiken
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: Bloomsbury Readers Ser.
A brilliant collection of spine-chilling tales by Joan Aiken, author of The Wolves of Willoughby Chase. From a mysterious traveller who leaves an injured horse with a stranger, to a garden plant that slowly creeps into a house during a thunderstorm and a man who comes across two angry forces in the midd ...Show more