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.
She stopped when she saw David in the canoe, and laughed and called to him to beware of a very dangerous weir just round the bend. He thanked her and went on rather cautiously; but there was no weir round the corner; nor did he ever ...
&eeó Almost at the opposite pole from the “toy” fantasy of the Milne and Bianco books is John Masefield's The Midnight Folk (1927), which is a great seething cauldron of magic and adventure. Masefield (18781967) ran away to sea as a boy ...
Reproduction of the original: A World of Girls by L. T. Meade
Diana Loxley , Problematic Shores : The Literature of the Islands ( London : Macmillan , 1992 ) . 7. Virginia S. Wolf , " Paradise Lost ? The Displacement of Myth in Children's Novels Set on Islands , " Studies in the Literary ...
In dedication to his place of birth, Vaughan Williams named the hymn tune for 'Come down, O love divine' after Down ... Bradt editor and author: As I was editing this book and writing my own Slow Sussex and South Downs National Park, ...
"Tom is not prepared for what is about to happen when he hears the grandfather clock strike thirteen. Outside the back door is a garden, which everyone tells him does not exist."--Page 4 de la couverture.
... P. continued throughout her career to alternate between fictional opposites : the dark stories collected in The Shadow - Cage and Other Tales of the Supernatural ( 1977 , Ted Lewin , illus ) , and awarded a Carnegie Medal ...
A classic tale from Helen Forrester set in the heart of India.
Reproduction of the original: Shakespeare the Boy by William James Rolfe