search for books and compare prices
Jill Paton Walsh has written 25 work(s)
Search for other authors with the same name
displaying 1 to 25 |
at end
show results in order: alphabetically | oldest to newest | newest to oldest
Paperback:
9780571296248 | Gardners Books, November 15, 2012, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A gripping wartime adventure story for young readers, The Dolphin Crossing (first published in 1967) marked the fiction debut of Jill Paton Walsh, subsequently a celebrated author of detective stories and novels for adults.
9780440403104 | Reprint edition (Yearling Books, July 1, 1990), cover price $3.50 | About this edition: Pat Riley and John Aston take John's father's boat across the English Channel to help British soldiers stranded on the shores of Dunkirk, little realizing the kinds of risks they are taking, and the sort of courage their journey will demand.
Miscellaneous:
9781608980789 | Namelos Llc, September 9, 2009, cover price $7.95
Product Description: Pattie and her family are among the last refugees to flee a dying Earth in an old spaceship. And when the group finally lands on the distant planet which is to be their new home, it seems that the four-year journey has been a success...read more
Reinforced:
9780606032209 | Demco Media, September 1, 1986, cover price $13.55 | also contains The Green Book | About this edition: As their small stock of essential supplies dwindles, a group of refugees from Earth struggle to make their strange new planet provide life's necessities.
Prebinding:
9781439584811 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 9, 2009), cover price $14.95 | also contains The Green Book | About this edition: Pattie and her family are among the last refugees to flee a dying Earth in an old spaceship.
Product Description: Pattie and her family are among the last refugees to flee a dying Earth in an old spaceship. And when the group finally lands on the distant planet which is to be their new home, it seems that the four-year journey has been a success...read more
Reinforced:
9780606032209 | Demco Media, September 1, 1986, cover price $13.55 | also contains The Green Book | About this edition: As their small stock of essential supplies dwindles, a group of refugees from Earth struggle to make their strange new planet provide life's necessities.
Prebinding:
9781439584811 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 9, 2009), cover price $14.95 | also contains The Green Book | About this edition: Pattie and her family are among the last refugees to flee a dying Earth in an old spaceship.
Prebinding:
9781439506240 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 26, 2008), cover price $16.95 | also contains A Parcel of Patterns | About this edition: "A parcel of patterns brought the plague to Eyam.
Product Description: On September 7, 1838, twenty-two-year-old Grace Darling and her father rowed a small boat through turbulent seas to rescue the survivors of a shipwreck. Based on true accounts, this is the story of a woman whose quiet life crumbled around her after she became a national hero.
Prebinding:
9781435279438 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, May 16, 2008), cover price $15.95 | also contains Grace | About this edition: On September 7, 1838, twenty-two-year-old Grace Darling and her father rowed a small boat through turbulent seas to rescue the survivors of a shipwreck.
Product Description: On September 7, 1838, twenty-two-year-old Grace Darling and her father rowed a small boat through turbulent seas to rescue the survivors of a shipwreck. Based on true accounts, this is the story of a woman whose quiet life crumbled around her after she became a national hero.
Prebinding:
9781435279438 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, May 16, 2008), cover price $15.95 | also contains Grace | About this edition: On September 7, 1838, twenty-two-year-old Grace Darling and her father rowed a small boat through turbulent seas to rescue the survivors of a shipwreck.
Hardcover:
9780312355364 | Minotaur Books, April 4, 2006, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: With her college near bankruptcy and her former lover a suspect in a double murder, Imogen Quy, a nurse at St.
Hardcover:
9780374307165 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, October 1, 1989, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: A young Scottish girl has little use for her gift of second sight until the day the ghosties came.
Paperback:
9780340795248 | New edition (Gardners Books, October 25, 2001), cover price $10.65 | About this edition: Sometimes Birdy watches her father row people across the sea, but when the old woman asks to be ferried across Birdy jumps in too.
9780374406752 | Reprint edition (Sunburst, September 1, 1991), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: A young Scottish girl has little use for her gift of second sight until the day the ghosties came.
A novel of the effects of Communism on the lives of ordinary people in the aftermath of World War II chronicles fifty years in a small Eastern European town.
Paperback:
9780552998642 | New edition (Transworld Pub, September 1, 2001), cover price $10.80 | also contains A Desert in Bohemia | About this edition: 1945, somewhere in Central Europe, a young women takes refuge in an abandoned castle.
Reinforced:
9780606223126, titled "Desert in Bohemia" | Demco Media, February 1, 2002, cover price $21.61 | About this edition: A novel of the effects of Communism on the lives of ordinary people in the aftermath of World War II chronicles fifty years in a small Eastern European town.
Hardcover:
9780395686669 | Houghton Mifflin, March 1, 1994, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: The nature of faith is explored in a spiritual fable, set in the pre-Reformation Mediterranean, about what happens when a stranger proclaims himself to be an atheist and cardinal prince Severo must decide whether to kill him for heresy or acquit him for ignorance
Paperback:
9780552997805 | New edition (Transworld Pub, January 2, 1998), cover price $13.30 | About this edition: The appearance of two outsiders on a Mediterranean island - one a castaway and atheist, the other a child suckled by wolves and knowing nothing of God - find themselves the subjects of a bizarre experiment.
9780553374759 | Reprint edition (Bantam Dell Pub Group, June 1, 1995), cover price $10.95 | About this edition: A fable-like tale set in the Middle Ages focuses on two outcasts, an atheistic prince and a wolf child confined to a nunnery, who become pawns in a theological controversy
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9781856959827 | Isis Audio, July 1, 1996, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: A fable-like tale set in the Middle Ages focuses on two outcasts, an atheistic prince and a wolf child confined to a nunnery, who become pawns in a theological controversy.
Hardcover:
9780844666464 | Peter Smith Pub Inc, December 1, 1992, cover price $17.25 | About this edition: Set against a Cornish backdrop, 'Goldengrove Unleaving' is an evocation of lost childhood and innocence.
Paperback:
9780552996556 | Transworld Pub, January 2, 1997, cover price $13.20 | About this edition: Once a year cousins Madge and Paul visit Goldengrove, their grandmother's idyllic Cornish home.
9780374425876 | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, November 1, 1985), cover price $3.50 | About this edition: A sensitive young girl and her cousin who spend their summer vacation at their grandmother's beach house learn the importance of caring from a blind professor
School and Library:
9780670862108 | Viking Childrens Books, January 1, 1996, cover price $12.99 | About this edition: Connie uses her imagination to play when Robert refuses to share his toys
Paperback:
9780340637951 | Hodder & Stoughton, November 2, 1995, cover price $9.30 | About this edition: The late, great mathematician Gideon Summerfield ought to be a safe subject for a biography, so why has it been so difficult to get the book written?
9780312292522 | Minotaur Books, July 15, 1995, cover price $19.99
Hardcover:
9780312131456 | St Martins Pr, August 1, 1995, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Imogene Quy, the school nurse at St.
Hardcover:
9780708931769 | Large print edition (Ulverscroft Large Print Books, January 1, 1994), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Philip Skellow has died as he lived - alone, and scorned by his fellow undergraduates at St Agatha's College in Cambridge.
9780312094201 | Minotaur Books, August 1, 1993, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: St.
Paperback:
9780340592434 | New edition (Hodder & Stoughton, February 17, 1994), cover price $9.35 | About this edition: In a fictional Cambridge college, an undergraduate is found dead in the Wyndham Case, a most peculiar private library which just happens to be worth a fortune to the college.
9780312287474 | Minotaur Books, June 15, 1993, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: St.
Hardcover:
9780670835812 | Viking Pr, August 1, 1992, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Although Grandma has seen many wonderful sights around the world, none compare to the wonder of her bouncy, growing, 'heaven-and-earthly' granddaughter Madeleine
Paperback:
9780140543278 | Reprint edition (Puffin, July 1, 1994), cover price $4.99 | About this edition: Although Grandma has seen many wonderful sights around the world, none compare to the wonder of her bouncy, growing, 'heaven-and-earthly' granddaughter Madeleine
Hardcover:
9788478441143 | Siruela, June 30, 1992, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: Book by Paton Walsh, Jill
Hardcover:
9780370314471 | Bodley Head, April 1, 1992, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Part of a collection of stories for young readers which tell about a group of friends, and also take a look at traditional playground games, this book looks at "Wolf".
Hardcover:
9780370314488 | Bodley Head, January 1, 1992, cover price $11.95
Reinforced:
9780606046770, titled "Gaffer Samson's Luck" | Demco Media, November 1, 1990, cover price $14.50 | also contains Gaffer Samson's Luck | About this edition: An outcast among the children in his new town in the Fens, James is befriended by ailing Gaffer Samson, who gives James his battered bicycle and sends him in search of the 'luck' he buried seventy years earlier
Reinforced:
9780606046770 | Demco Media, November 1, 1990, cover price $14.50 | also contains Gaffer Samson''s Luck | About this edition: An outcast among the children in his new town in the Fens, James is befriended by ailing Gaffer Samson, who gives James his battered bicycle and sends him in search of the 'luck' he buried seventy years earlier
The recent heir to her grandmother's house, a young girl rents it for the summer to a professor and a group of students whose long, abstract, philosophical discussions become meaningful to her as the summer wears on.
Paperback:
9780374480684 | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 1990), cover price $3.50 | About this edition: Having inherited her grandmother's seaside home, Madge Fielding opens it for the summer to the families and students of two Oxford philosophy professors and experiences for the first time the delights and dangers of intellectual excitement
Hardcover:
9780745106595, titled "A Chance Child" | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, July 1, 1988), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Creep accidentally travels back in time to the British Industrial Revolution, while, in the present, his half brother is anxiously searching for him.
9780374312367 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, December 1, 1978, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Compelled to search for his half-brother Creep who some people insist is nonexistent, Christopher locates Parliamentary Papers containing Nathaniel Creep's personal narrative of working conditions during the Industrial Revolution 100 years earlier.
Paperback:
9780374411749, titled "A Chance Child" | Reprint edition (Sunburst, April 1, 1991), cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Compelled to search for his half brother Creep who some people insist is nonexistent, Christopher locates Parliamentary Papers containing Nathaniel Creep's personal narrative of working conditions during the Industrial Revolution 100 years earlier.
9780380485611 | Avon Books, April 1, 1980, cover price $1.95 | About this edition: Creep is accidentally freed from the closet where his mother confined him and begins his journey through nineteenth-century England, while his half-brother--the only person who cares--searches for him
Prebinding:
9780833566218, titled "A Chance Child" | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $13.80 | About this edition: Creep accidentally travels back in time to the British Industrial Revolution, while, in the present, his half brother is anxiously searching for him.
Hardcover:
9780374312428 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, July 1, 1978, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Three novellas depict the courageous actions of children dedicated to the cause of the Greek General Themistokles during the Persian Wars
displaying 1 to 25 |
at end