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John Lawrence has written 59 work(s)
Paperback:
9780753451854 | Kingfisher, April 1, 2000, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: A collection of traditional and original stories that can be read aloud in five minutes, including tales from Alaska, Japan, and Africa and works by Dick King-Smith and Margaret Mahy.
Paperback:
9780744569650 | New edition (Gardners Books, October 4, 1999), cover price $7.70 | About this edition: In this collection of stories and poems, discover the secrets of the staffroom and the truth about Snow White; hear a cock and bull story about - a cock and a bull; meet the paper boy, the actor's mother and the ghosts of dead uncles.
This title contains terrifying stories from ancient East Anglia and the Fen Country.
Paperback:
9781858817538 | New edition (Orion Pub Co, September 23, 1999), cover price $12.60 | About this edition: This title contains terrifying stories from ancient East Anglia and the Fen Country.
Hardcover:
9781581340273 | Crossway Books, October 15, 1998, cover price $12.99 | About this edition: Only two weeks from His crucifixion, Jesus has stopped in Bethlehem.
A magical, whimsical, and hugely entertaining collection of poetry and prose captures such unusual characters as the ghost of Uncle Joe, who died but refuses to leave, and Paper Boy, made entirely out of paper, who reads himself to sleep every night.
School and Library:
9780763603526 | Candlewick Pr, October 1, 1997, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: A collection of poems, including 'Getting up for School' and 'Cemetery Road,' and short stories, including 'The Paper Boy' and 'Snow White Lies'
Hardcover:
9780721457536 | Dutton Childrens Books, September 1, 1997, cover price $2.99 | About this edition: Tricked by Hera into murdering his wife and children, Hercules learns from the priestess at Delphi that he can only be forgiven after working twelve years for King Eurystheus
Hardcover:
9780762400256 | Min edition (Running Pr Book Pub, March 1, 1997), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: My stars!
Hardcover:
9780721456157 | Ladybird Books, February 1, 1997, cover price $2.99 | About this edition: Presents two 'Arabian Nights' tales
Hardcover:
9780312147020 | St Martins Pr, November 1, 1996, cover price $14.95 | also contains American Smoke: Journeys to the End of the Light: A Fiction of Memory
9780312133399 | St Martins Pr, October 1, 1995, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A holiday anthology for the entire family includes fifty-seven classic poems and dozens of engravings, highlighting such works as Frost's 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening' and Longfellow's 'Snow-flakes'
A boy encounters a frightening ghost at the factory where his father works, and a girl's unhappy vacation is saved by the arrival of an abandoned cat
Hardcover:
9780374312602 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, October 1, 1994, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A boy encounters a frightening ghost at the factory where his father works, and a girl's unhappy vacation is saved by the arrival of an abandoned cat
Paperback:
9780374411251 | Sunburst, October 1, 1996, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: A boy encounters a frightening ghost at the factory where his father works, and a girl's unhappy vacation is saved by the arrival of an abandoned cat
Reinforced:
9780606101585 | Demco Media, October 1, 1996, cover price $11.05 | About this edition: A boy encounters a frightening ghost at the factory where his father works, and a girl's unhappy vacation is saved by the arrival of an abandoned cat
Traces world history through text, illustrations, and maps
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Hardcover:
9780746017289 | Edc Pub, February 1, 1996, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Traces the history of the world from the beginnings of the solar system to the late twentieth century through text, illustrations, and maps.
All the merriment and mystery of Christmas is captured in four poignant holiday stories and a joyful poem.
Hardcover:
9781564023414 | Candlewick Pr, October 1, 1994, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: All the merriment and mystery of Christmas is captured in four poignant holiday stories and a joyful poem.
On each of the twelve days of Christmas, more and more gifts arrive from the recipient's true love.
Hardcover:
9781561384204 | Min edition (Running Pr Book Pub, September 1, 1994), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: On each of the twelve days of Christmas, more and more gifts arrive from the recipient's true love.
School and Library:
9781564022103 | Candlewick Pr, October 1, 1993, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Very early Christmas Day, a lonely, elderly widower finds a tiny baby
Paperback:
9780878056620 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, September 1, 1993, cover price $25.00
Paperback:
9780452010840 | 7 rev sub edition (Plume, May 1, 1993), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Chronicles Russia's two thousand year development from primitive, nomadic tribes, to the emergence and growth of the modern communist state, to the dramatic changes of the Gorbachev era
The author of A Mouse in My Roof presents a selection of forty-eight original, humorous, and poignant poems about bananas, polar bears, monsters, badgers, and a cushion complaining about the heavy weight on it.
Hardcover:
9780385306201 | Delacorte Pr, November 1, 1992, cover price $13.50 | About this edition: A collection of poems on such topics as why bananas bend, the magic number that makes dreams come true, and the behavior of badgers
Hardcover:
9781556702624 | Stewart Tabori & Chang, September 1, 1992, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: An illustrated collection of traditional rhymes and modern poems on a variety of subjects
Hardcover:
9781856190794 | Trafalgar Square, June 1, 1992, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Casanova looks back on his life and loves as he prepares to escape from the library of Dux
Paperback:
9780140118476 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, March 1, 1991), cover price $14.00
Hardcover:
9780879238230 | David R Godine Pub, November 1, 1990, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Illustrations and brief text introduce a variety of babies with differing characteristics and dispositions
Paperback:
9780870237188 | Univ of Massachusetts Pr, October 1, 1990, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The Elizabethan age was one of unbounded vitality and exuberance; nowhere is the color and action of life more vividly revealed than in the rogue books and cony-catching (confidence game) pamphlets of the sixteenth century.
Hardcover:
9781556701450 | Stewart Tabori & Chang, September 1, 1990, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: A celebration of English verse, includes poems by William Blake, Christopher Smart, Robert Louis Stevenson, Christina Rossetti, and many others
Paperback:
9780747502883 | Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, January 1, 1990, cover price $9.95
Christmas brings aunts, uncles, friends, and strangers to the house on Exeter Street, where the holiday gradually becomes a crowded but festive occasion.
Hardcover:
9780679801344 | Random House Childrens Books, September 1, 1989, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Christmas brings aunts, uncles, friends, and strangers to the house on Exeter Street, where the holiday gradually becomes a crowded but festive occasion.
Library:
9780679901341 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, November 1, 1989, cover price $13.99 | About this edition: Christmas brings aunts, uncles, friends, and strangers to the house on Exeter Street, where the holiday gradually becomes a crowded but festive occasion.
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