As a reward for saving the life of one of the feared green people, Jack acquires a beautiful and loving squirrel wife, who, knowledgeable in the secrets of the forest, is not accepted by his kind.

Product Description: When Tom is sent to his aunt's house for the summer he resigns himself to weeks of boredom. Lying awake one night he listens to the grandfather clock in the hall strike every hour. Eleven . . . Twelve . . . Thirteen. Thirteen! Tom rushes down the stairs and opens the back door...read more

When Bet is first asked to go into the meadow to read aloud - apparently to no-one - she wonders why. To her surprise, her audience is a little mole. Immortal, intelligent and possessing magical powers, the mole has a long and legendary history. This is a tale of deep secrets, magic, difficult choices and true friendship.

A Puffin Book - stories that last a lifetime. Puffin Modern Classics are relaunched under a new logo: A Puffin Book. There are 20 titles to collect in the series, listed below, all with exciting new covers and fun-filled endnotes. Philippa Pearce's poignant story of a young boy who longs for a pet dog. In A DOG SO SMALL young 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 thing, and when Ben puts his to work, his adventures really begin! Philippa Pearce grew up in a millhouse near Cambridge and read English and history at Girton College. She was a scriptwriter-producer for the BBC, a children's book editor and reviewer, a lecturer, a storyteller and freelance writer for radio and newspapers as well as writing some of the best-loved books of the 20th century. She won a Carnegie Medal for TOM'S MIDNIGHT GARDEN and a Whitbread Prize for THE BATTLE OF BUBBLE AND SQUEAK. She died in December, 2006. Also available in A Puffin Book: GOODNIGHT MISTER TOM and BACK HOME by Michelle Magorian CHARLOTTE'S WEB, STUART LITTLE and THE TRUMPET OF THE SWAN by E. B. White THE BORROWERS by Mary Norton STIG OF THE DUMP by Clive King ROLL OF THUNDER, HEAR MY CRY by Mildred D. Taylor A DOG SO SMALL by Philippa Pearce GOBBOLINO by Ursula Moray Williams CARRIE'S WAR by Nina Bawden MRS FRISBY AND THE RATS OF NIMH by Richard C O'Brien A WRINKLE IN TIME by Madeleine L'Engle THE CAY by Theodore Taylor TARKA THE OTTER by Henry Williamson WATERSHIP DOWN by Richard Adams SMITH by Leon Garfield THE NEVERENDING STORY by Michael Ende ANNIE by Thomas Meehan THE FAMILY FROM ONE END STREET by Eve Garnett

Gobbolino the cat sets out on a quest to help his little sister, Sootica, and he soon befriends a wooden horse, and together they face many struggles along the way. (view table of contents)

Offers middle readers a collection of more than thirty short stories about enchanting and haunting things seen and experienced by children. (view table of contents)

David can't believe his eyes when he discovers the canoe at the bottom of the garden - The Minnow. He traces the owner and together they begin a summer of adventure, looking for treasure along the river.

Product Description: Sid has been given a pair of gerbils, Bubble and Squeak, but his mother doesn't want them in the house! The battle to keep them is on.

Six episodes feature a lively boy named Tod and his adventures within his affectionate family circle.

Collects forty ghost stories from English-speaking countries, written in the twentieth century by such well-known authors as A.C. Benson, Eleanor Farjeon, Joan Aiken, and Leon Garfield

A collection of forty ghost stories charts the genre's development throughout the twentieth century and includes the works of such authors as M. R. James, A. C. Benson, Walter de la Mare, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Leon Garfield. UP.

There is mystery about Kate's family, but her family either knows nothing or will tell nothing. Her two brothers, her grandmother, her new friend Anna and her missing father all have a part to play in Kate's search to fit the jigsaw pieces of past and present to find a new picture for the future.

Product Description: A collection of nine stories about animals, including a lion who goes to school, a lonely horse in search of adventure, and a mouse trying to avoid a mousetrap.

Book by Pearce, Philippa

One summer when the miller's family is away, Belle, the old mill cat, ventures inside their house for the first time and takes her seven kittens with her.

Product Description: Bubble and Squeak

When the zoo is unable to keep a miniature elephant, Emily and her parents make a home for it and its monkey friend in their lovely meadow with a river running by.

Features six favorite stories, including 'Still Jim and Silent Jim.'

Stories deal with a poisonous pudding, a haunted tree, a teacher's suicide, a teddy bear's revenge, a frightening visit, visions of the future, and a ghostly sister

The adventures of the Bunnykin children as they play in the snow after a big snowfall and build a large snow bunny

Bunting and Babs Bunnykins, two rabbits, visit their grandmother for tea, but the doll she gives them only causes arguments

The Bunnykins family walk high into the hills for a picnic, but Bunting, the baby, falls in the stream and must run around in the sun until he's dry