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A Dog So Small by Philippa Pearce
Category: Children's Books | 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 Finder's Magic by Philippa Pearce
Category: Children's Books
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
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
The Battle of Bubble and Squeak by Philippa Pearce
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: A Puffin Book
Sid, Peggy and Amy adore the two gerbils, Bubble and Squeak, but their mother detests them. A major family battle results, and it's clear life is never going to be quite the same again. But after a near fatal encounter between Bubble and Ginger the cat, Mrs Sparrow begins to see that life with a pair of ...Show more
The Ghost in Annie's Room by Philippa Pearce
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: Little Gems
Emma is happy to sleep in her Cousin Annie's old attic bedroom when staying with her great-aunt Win. But when bedtime comes, she starts feeling nervous. Her brother Joe insists that the room is haunted. Could he be right? Emma must face her fears and uncover the mystery behind the haunting of Annie's ol ...Show more
The Little Gentleman by Jan Francis (Read by); Philippa Pearce
Category: Audio
When Bet is first asked to go into the meadow and read a passage aloud from a book - apparently to no-one - she wonders why. But then she realises that her audience is a little mole, who listens attentively. This isn't just any mole. This mole can speak, he is more than 300 years old and he has an amazi ...Show more
Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce
Category: Children's Classics
Tom is furious. His brother, Peter, has measles, so now Tom is being shipped off to stay with Aunt Gwen and Uncle Alan in their boring old apartment. There'll be nothing to do there and no one to play with. Tom just counts the days till he can return home to Peter.Then one night the landlady's antique g ...Show more
Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce
Category: Children's Classics
When Tom is sent to stay at his aunt and uncle's house for the summer, he resigns himself to endless weeks of boredom. As he lies awake in his bed he hears the grandfather clock downstairs strike . . . eleven . . . twelve . . . thirteen . . . Thirteen! Tom races down the stairs and out the back door, in ...Show more
Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce; Peter England (Read by); Full Cast Production Staff (Read by); Crawford Logan (Read by); Una Stubbs (Read by)
Category: Audio | Series: BBC Children's Classics Ser.
Winner of the Carnegie Medal From beloved author Philippa Pearce, this sixtieth-anniversary edition is the perfect way to share this transcendent story of friendship with a new generation of readers. Philip Pullman, bestselling author of the His Dark Materials trilogy, called Tom's Midnight Garden "A pe ...Show more
Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce
Category: Children's Fiction
When Tom is sent to his aunt's house for the summer he resigns himself to weeks of boredom. Lying awake one night he listens to the grandfather clock in the hall strike every hour. Eleven ...Twelve ...Thirteen. Thirteen! Tom rushes down the stairs and opens the back door. There, awaiting him, is a beaut ...Show more
Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce
Category: Classics
Tom has to spend the summer at his aunt's, and it seems as if nothing good will ever happen again. Then he hears the grandfather clock strike thirteen - and everything changes. Outside the door is a garden - a garden that shouldn't exist. Are the children there ghosts, or is it Tom who is the ghost? Thi ...Show more
Tom's Midnight Garden (50th Anniversary Edition) by Philippa Pearce
Category: Classics
Tom's Midnight Garden is one of the best-loved works of children's literature of the last century and to celebrate the book's 50th anniversary Oxford University Press is proud to be publishing this special hardback edition. Featuring original setting and illustrations inside, together with original cove ...Show more