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A Dog So Small (Puffin Modern Classics) by Philippa Pearce
$15.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Puffin Modern Classics
Ben Blewitt is desperate for a dog. He's picked out the biggest and best dogs from the books in the library - and he just knows he's going to get one for his birthday. Ben is excited when the big day arrives, but he receives a picture of a dog instead of a real one! But the imagination can be a powerful ...Show more
A Finder's Magic by Philippa Pearce
$29.99 NZD
Category: Childrens Books
This is a beautifully crafted fantastical mystery about a little boy called Till who loses his dog Bess. A mysterious stranger called Mr Finder offers to help Till find his dog, and they interview various witnesses including a heron, a mole, a riddling cat - and Miss Mousey, whose sketch of a peaceful r ...Show more
A Finder's Magic by Philippa Pearce
$17.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Reading Level: 10-13yrs
A beautifully crafted fantastical mystery about a little boy called Till who loses his dog Bess. A mysterious stranger called Mr Finder offers to help Till find his dog, and they interview various witnesses including a heron, a mole, a riddling cat and Miss Mousey, whose sketch of a peaceful riverban ...Show more
A Finder's Magic by Philippa Pearce
$14.99 NZD
Category: Children
A mysterious stranger called Mr Finder offers to help Till find his dog, and they interview various witnesses including a heron, a mole, a riddling cat - and Miss Mousey, whose sketch of a peaceful riverbank offers a vital clue. The quest to find Bess is full of magic but Till begins to mistrust his sup ...Show more
Amy's Three Best Things by Philippa Pearce
$18.99 NZD
Category: Childrens Books
This is a wonderfully reassuring bedtime book about staying away from home for the very first time by two major children's-book talents. Amy is going to stay with her granny on her own and she packs her three best things to take with her. On the first night she misses her family and one of her three bes ...Show more
Amy's Three Best Things by Philippa Pearce
$27.95 NZD
Category: Childrens Books
This is a wonderfully reassuring bedtime book about staying away from home for the very first time by two major children's book talents. Amy is going to stay with her granny on her own and she packs her three best things to take with her. On the first night she misses her family and one of her three bes ...Show more
Mrs Cockle's Cat by Philippa Pearce
$25.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult
Mrs Cockle's cat, Peter, is cross and miserable from staying indoors. Even worse, there is no fresh fish to eat. The weather is so bad that the fisherman can't take their boats out to sea. Finally, Peter can stand it no longer and goes in search of fish, leaving poor Mrs Cockle all alone.
The Little Gentleman by Philippa Pearce
$29.95 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult
When Bet is first asked to go into the meadow and read a passage aloud from a book - apparently to no-one - she wonders why. But then she realises that her audience is a little mole, who listens attentively. This isn't just any mole. This mole can speak, he is more than 300 years old and he has an amazi ...Show more
Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce
$14.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
Tom has to spend the summer at his aunt's, and it seems as if nothing good will ever happen again. Then he hears the grandfather clock strike thirteen - and everything changes. Outside the door is a garden - a garden that shouldn't exist. Are the children there ghosts, or is it Tom who is the ghost? Thi ...Show more
Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce
$14.95 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Puffin Books | Reading Level: 2-12
Hurry!, whispered the house, and the grandfather clock at the heart of it beat an anxious tick. Tom opened the door wide and let in the moonlight. He was staring at what he saw outside. They had said, "Really, there's nothing to see". This book won a Carnegie Medal.
Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce
$27.95 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Oxford Children's Modern Classics | Reading Level: 9+
When Tom hears the grandfather clock strike thirteen he is not prepared for what is going to happen. Outside the back door is a garden, which everyone tells him doesn't exist. But the magical place in which Tom finds himself is certainly a garden - his midnight garden. This book won The Carnegie Medal w ...Show more