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
Author
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.