Chuck and Danielle

Seven funny episodic tales about Danielle and her nervous whippet, Chuck

Between the jokes and the sentiment, we are left with an encouraging tale of overcoming fears and maintaining values

Subtly layered . . . This distinctive collection of stories, touching and funny, will be a joy to read

Cheery contemporary stories . . . The characters of child and dog are delightfully drawn

Switching between Chuck and Danielle's viewpoints and with knowing asides to his child readers, Dickinson produces great comedy . . . An approachable book that will also read aloud well and provide a lot of amusement (and some food for thought)

PETER DICKINSON has won numerous prizes for his books for young readers, including the Carnegie Medal (twice), the Guardian Award and the Whitbread Literary Award (again, twice). His previous titles for Transworld have included a number of novels for teenage readers, as well as the enchanting Time and the Clock Mice, Etcetera. 
He is married to American writer, Robin McKinley, and lives in Hampshire.

Chuck is a whippet. A very nervous whippet, who's scared of absolutely everything: paper bags, pigeons, supermarket trolleys, cats (even the little fluffy ones). Some people say Chuck's a wimpet, not a whippet, and Mum keeps pretending she's going to give Chuck away, but Danielle loves her scaredy-cat whippet and knows that there's more to Chuck than meets the eye... 
 
 Seven funny, charming and totally whippet-friendly stories from Peter Dickinson, the winner of several major awards for his books for young readers - and the owner of three whippets!

Peter Dickinson

Robin McKinley

This is a beautifully presented collection of tales emerging from water, with an absorbing cover. A hauntingly memorable book

Dedicated older readers will thank you for this book

Six fabulous tales - vividly imagined and powerfully told. 
 
The shriek of the wind, calling the waters to rebel - and a silver man from the sea with a voice like the roar of a seashell . . . 
 
A long-told story of the sea people and their song - and a golden eye, glittering in a pool at the edge of a desert . . . 
 
A ferocious serpent, its body as think as the trunk of a huge tree - and the immense, unknowable Kraken, dark beyond black, cold beyond ice, waking on the ocean floor . . . 
 
Immerse yourself in this mesmorising collection of short stories inspired buy the element of Water - and be swept away by the supurb storytelling skills of two major award-winning authors.

Peter Dickinson

Praise for Elementals: Water

This is a beautifully presented collection of tales emerging from water, with an absorbing cover. A hauntingly memorable book

Dedicated older readers will thank you for this book

Books by Peter Dickinson

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