$28.30
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
15 October 2019
Summary
Puffin Classics - the definitive collection of timeless stories, for every child
Rediscover the A Puffin Book series and bring the best-loved classics to a new generation - including this highly anticipated edition of More Arabel and Mortimer.
Late one night, as Mr Jones drove his taxi home through a storm, he spotted a large black bird with a hairy fringe round its beak sprawled out in the road.
Mr Jones decides to take the bird home to meet his daughter, Arabel, she’…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241386668 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241386667 |
| Author: | Joan Aiken, Quentin Blake |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Children's UK |
| Imprint: | Puffin |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 15 October 2019 |
| Weight: | 287g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 26mm |
| Series: | A Puffin Book |
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About The Author
Joan Aiken
Joan Aiken (1924-2004) was the daughter of the American poet, Conrad Aiken. Joan had a variety of jobs, including working for the BBC, the United Nations Information Centre and then as features editor for a short story magazine. Her first children’s novel, The Kingdom and the Cave, was published in 1960. Joan Aiken wrote over a hundred books for young readers and adults and is recognized as one of the classic authors of the twentieth century. Her best-known books are those in the James III saga, of which The Wolves of Willoughby Chase was the first title, published in l962 and awarded the Lewis Carroll prize. Both that and Black Hearts in Battersea have been filmed. Her books are internationally acclaimed and she received the Edgar Allan Poe Award in the United States as well as the Guardian Award for Fiction for The Whispering Mountain. In 1999 Joan Aiken was awarded an MBE for her services to children’s books.
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