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A Treasury of Fairy Tales by Helen Cresswell
Category: Picture Books
A sumptuous collection of favourite tales, with exquisitely detailed plates and decorative vignettes by illustrator, Sian Bailey. Open this book and enter the magical world of fairy tales, a land of mystery and enchantment, alive with handsome princes, wicked queens and beautiful heroines. This classica ...Show more
Moondial by Helen Cresswell
Category: Children's Books | Series: Faber Children's Classics
A new edition of the well-loved classic story.Even before she came to Belton, Minty Cane had known that she was a witch, or something very like it...Minty is the kind of girl who notices things. Pockets of cold air on a stairway. Cries on the wind. Ghosts.On night-time jaunts from the house where she's ...Show more
Mystery Stories by Cresswell Helen
Category: Children's Fiction
Extraordinary events and mysterious circumstances fill this eerie collection of nineteen stories. Music takes a boy to a strange place, a scythe compels its users to slash on and on, a jacket is possessed and a beautiful woman turns into a vampire. Other strange and unsettling encounters grip the imagin ...Show more
Ordinary Jack (The Bagthorpe Saga #1) by Helen Cresswell
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: The Bagthorpe Saga
First in the super-funny classic series starring the TOTALLY unforgettable Bagthorpe family - from best-loved author Helen Cresswell. Jack's fed up of living in the shadow of his brilliant siblings. He and his trusty dog Zero are completely ordinary while the rest of them are annoyingly gifted. So when ...Show more
The Secret World of Polly Flint by Helen Cresswell
Category: Children's Books
When she arrives in Wellow, Polly knows there is magic in the place. The story goes that if you put your ears to the ground on Sundays you can hear the church bells of the missing village of Grimstone. But Polly seems to be able to call up the village that has disappeared - and the people who live in it ...Show more
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