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(0)Ian Beck
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Language
English
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Description
Charity Delafield has grown up with her fiercely strict father, in a vast, isolated house that she is forbidden to explore. She knows very little of the outside world - or of her own family's shadowy past. One day Charity stumbles upon the dark corridor that haunts her dreams, and suddenly she realises things aren't what they seem.
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Series
Publisher
Barrington Stoke
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
When a newly-qualified fairy loses the third wish of three she must deliver to a woodcutter, young Dickon finds it. There is no limit to the number of times a lost wish may be used, and soon there are sparkly cats and magic lemonade bottles all over the place! Can fairy Cobweb find the wish and put a stop to Dickon's magic?
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Series
Publisher
Orchard
Language
English
Description
This retelling of the popular rhyme about a mother duck who , each day her ducklings veture into the wide world, manages to lose one duckling. Happily, when the last of her five ducklings sets off, he manages to find all of his siblings, so by the end of the book, Mother Duck has all her five little ducks.
Author
Publisher
Picture Corgi
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
High above the stable the night sky was filled with angels, who gave thanks to God and welcomed the new baby with their beautiful music. Simply told and illustrated by Ian Beck, this is a colourful retelling of the Nativity story.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Tom is off on another adventure. This time he's going on a journey to the Land of Myths and Legends to rescue his father. But first he must face many dangerous creatures such as the ferocious Norse Dragon and the Cyclops. And then there's the hungry Minotaur waiting in the centre of the labyrinth.
13) Chicken Licken
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Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
One day Chicken Licken was struck by an acorn and thought the sky was falling in on him. Off he went to tell the king but on the way he met some of his friends who delayed him. Finally the group met a fox who assured them he knew what to do and invited them all home.
Author
Publisher
Corgi Books
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
On a bitterly cold winter's night in 1900, a young boy disappears without trace from the forest near his village. The man he was with claims he was snatched by angels. Forty years later, Corporal Jack Carmody is sent to investigate reports of mysterious lights above the village. The locals suspect German bombers overhead, but Carmody knows there's something far more intriguing going on. And when a terrified boy appears in the graveyard, convinced...
15) Little angel
Author
Publisher
Orchard
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
This is a story about overcoming fears and the importance and strength of friendship. When Micah, the shepherd boy who is terrified of wolves, & the little angel, who is scared of flying, travel to Bethlehem the baby King helps them forget their fears. Originally published: 1995
Author
Series
Publisher
Barrington Stoke
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Everything on the Island of Ashes is grey, from the weather to the castle, the grass, and the flowers. But then the red boat arrives, and with it a young man who believes he is cursed - everything he touches turns to colour. Princess Opal and the people of the island are enchanted, but the King is suspicious and imprisons Wendell. Opal must find a way to escape to a life filled with love and colour.
Author
Series
Publisher
Orchard
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
First published in hardback in 1997, a title in the ORCHARD PICTUREBOOKS series which offers a retelling of the Hans Christian Andersen classic, in which the little ugly duckling is shunned by the other ducks because he looks so different.