Authors: E Nesbit
The Wouldbegoods (28 page)
by kate douglas wiggin
• £7.99 • ISBN 9781843915249
foreword by anne dalton
When young Rebecca goes to live with her aunts, she finds she has much to learn about polite, ladylike behaviour. But it is her aunts who will learn more than they ever dreamed possible once their charming and dauntless niece comes into their lives…
It would be so grand to drive down a real main street, sitting high up like this behind two splendid horses, with my pink sunshade up, and everybody in town wondering who the bunch of lilacs and the hair trunk belongs to.
‘The novel provides a fascinating window into a vanished America and reflects the author’s burning belief that adults have a responsibility to cherish, not crush, the unique qualities that each child brings into the world.’
– Annie Dalton,
Author of the ‘Angel Academy’ series
by frances hodgson burnett
• £7.99 • ISBN 9781843914815
foreword by matt haig
Whenever Marco Loristan walks down the road, people turn to take a second look. He is unusually tall and handsome for a twelve-year-old boy. Brought up to respect his elders, with a keen artistic eye, a talent for language and a solid moral compass, he is shaping up very well. But change may be on its way as the situation in his homeland of Samavia starts to alter. Will he be allowed to serve his country as he dreams of doing?
‘We are of those who must live for Samavia – working day and night,’ his father had answered; ‘denying ourselves, training our bodies and souls, using our brains, learning the things which are best to be done for our people and our country. Even exiles may be Samavian soldiers – I am one, you must be one.’
‘A story of family, and travel and adventure, filled with bravery and wonder and love. It is a classic story from a classic writer and one full of hidden treasures.’
– Matt Haig,
author of
Shadow Forest
by rudyard kipling
• £7.99 • ISBN 9781843915027
foreword by marcus sedgwick
Una and Dan get the shock of their lives as their play acting summons forth a real-life elf. Enchanted by the tales he tells them, they beg to hear more but Puck can go even further, he can show them…
‘You’ve broken the Hills – you’ve broken the Hills! It hasn’t happened in a thousand years… Unluckily the Hills are empty now, and all the People of the Hills are gone. I’m the only one left. I’m Puck, the oldest Old Thing in England, very much at your service if – if you care to have anything to do with me…’
‘It’s the stuff of the imagination of anyone who ever lay on an English hilltop on a lazy summer Sunday and wondered about the history of the landscape around them – what do these strange names of the villages and hills around us mean? Why do we feel there must be hidden things in the forest and hedgerows around us?’
– Marcus Sedgwick,
author of
The Raven Mysteries
by mark twain
• £7.99 • ISBN 9781843915034
foreword by jeanne willis
Edward and Tom might look absolutely identical, but their lives couldn’t be more different. Edward is a prince while his lookalike, Tom, is a pauper. So when the boys switch places there is no telling what might happen…
In the ancient city of London… a boy was born to a poor family of the name of Canty, who did not want him. On the same day another English child was born to a rich family of the name of Tudor, who did want him. All England wanted him too.
‘It is easy to see why this book is still in print – it’s as relevant today as it’s always been… Long live the king of the Great American Novel.’
– Jeanne Willis,
author of
Who’s in the Loo?
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