Imprint: Jonathan Cape
Published: 05/11/2009
ISBN: 9780224083805
Length: 108 Pages
Dimensions: 227mm x 15mm x 158mm
Weight: 434g
RRP: £12.99
" This is how it all began..." From 'A Necklace of Raindrops' to 'The Patchwork Quilt', here are eight classic stories to treasure and enjoy. Beginning and ending with a birthday, this spell-binding collection conjures up a world filled with magic, where wishes can come true. A necklace of raindrops that keeps its owner dry in the heaviest rainstorm; a tiger that runs faster than the wind; a huge floating apple pie with a piece of sky in it; a baker's cat who swells to the size of a whale when his mistress feeds him yeast; a house that stands on one leg - these are just some of the objects and characters that figure in these delightful stories.
Imprint: Jonathan Cape
Published: 05/11/2009
ISBN: 9780224083805
Length: 108 Pages
Dimensions: 227mm x 15mm x 158mm
Weight: 434g
RRP: £12.99
Magic has never been more elegantly shaped than in these effervescent short stories . . . The flight of imagination is delicately captured in Jan Pienkowski's accompanying silhouettes
A Necklace of Raindrops is something that should be on every child's shelf
A little dark and often surreal
Jan Pienkowski, whose magical silhouttes were never so finely matched as with the wonderful Joan Aiken's fine short stories . . . A treat