A strange and beautiful tale by the Nobel laureate; short but very sweet, a touch melancholic but full of hope: a man has lost his soul - and therefore himself. What must he do for his soul ... read more
October is a girl living a wild life in the woods with her father; a glorious existence of wood fires, reading, growing vegetables, far from the madding crowd. Her idyll is rocked by an owl,... read more
An amiable tale of a tidy person and an untidy one; the tidy one gets a cat, who baffles his owner by preferring to curl up in the mess of his neighbour's house. What can they do? Lovely, fu... read more
... is an enormous train that whisks away two children on a series of adventures, with a porcupine, a polar bear and many other animals aboard - and in danger. Ages 7-10.
One in a second trio of reprints of the adored Eva Ibbotson. A young dancer escapes a stifling existance in Cambridge to join a corps de ballet en route to the Manaus Opera House, on the ba... read more
Another exhilerating Sri Lankan adventure from the author of The Girl Who Stole an Elephant. Packed with shipwrecks, sea-monsters and missing treasure.
In an alternate 19th century where America is at war with France and magical Oddities are hunted across impoverished frontiers, the daughter of a murdered physician must protect the Oddity h... read more
The lives of two children are thrown off kilter after WW1. Menaced by cynical aunts and orphanages, they run away to France to look for lost loved ones. Ages 8-11.
A boy of seven discovers a man with a propellor on his back hovering outside his window: Karlsson lives in a little house on Smidge's roof. Jollifications and adventures ensue... Ages 4-7. O... read more
Karlsson is a funny little man with a propeller on his back who lives on the top of Smidge's house. Cheerful stories for ages 4-7. One of a pair of new Lindgren reprints.