The Word Witch
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On Sale:
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1/11/2009
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Formats:
Hardback
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With a foreword by Tessa Duder, this landmark book celebrates the other works of our leading children′s writer. Celebrated internationally for her intricate novels and hilariously original picture books, Margaret Mahy′s scintillating verse and perfect poems are too often overlooked. Collected together for this first time in a ground breaking anthology, they have been lovingly illustrated by David Elliot. This beautiful book will be a must in every school, every library and in the homes of everyone who loves poetry, life and laughter.
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Author Extras
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Dark Blue 100 Ride Bus Ticket
When Carlo and his mother, Jessica, accept a free bus ticket from a strange old woman in the supermarket, they are really only being polite. Secretly they think she must be slightly batty, with her talk about hundred free bus rides to the supermarket at the end of the world. How...
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The Changeover
The face in the mirror. From the moment she saw it, Laura Chant knew that something dreadful was going to happen. It wasn′t the first time she′d been forewarned. But never before had anything so terrible happened. The horrifyingly evil Carmody Braque touched and branded her little...
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Portable Ghosts
Ditta is a smart, sassy 12-year-old who wants to be a detective - and when she encounters a ghostly boy reading in a mysterious corner of her school library she has her first mystery to solve. But when her best friend Max tells her the bedroom floor in his brand new house is...
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Henry Huggins (Spanish edition)
By Beverly Cleary
Illustrated by Louis Darling
Henry Huggins feels that nothing very interesting ever happens to him. But from the moment a stray dog in the drugstore begs for a taste of his ice-cream cone and downs it in one gulp, everything is different. Henry names the dog Ribsy and decides to keep him. Before Henry even reaches home with...
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Dear Mr. Henshaw (Spanish edition)
By Beverly Cleary
Illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky
Dear Mr. Henshaw, I wish somebody would stop stealing the good stuff out of my lunchbag. I guess I wish a lot of other things, too. I wish someday Dad and Bandit would pull up in front in the rig ... Dad would yell out of the cab, "Come on, Leigh. Hop in and I'll give you a lift to school....
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