A Necklace of Raindrops And Other Stories: A Necklace of Raindrops; the Cat Sat On the Mat;There's Some Sky in This Pie; the Elves in the Shelves;the ... the Night; the Patchwork Quilt (Puffin Books) - Softcover
Includes eight imaginative stories full of magic and mystery. A home in the sky, a baker's cat who grows huge after eating yeast, a feathered house which lays an egg, a huge flying apple pie with a bit of the sky baked into it are some of the subjects of the stories.
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"Magic has never been more elegantly shaped than in these effervescent short stories . . . The flight of imagination is delicately captured in Jan Pienkowski's accompanying silhouettes" (Julia Eccleshare Guardian)
"A Necklace of Raindrops is something that should be on every child's shelf" (Amanda Craig The Times)
"A little dark and often surreal" (Lydia Fulton Financial Times)
"Jan Pienkowski, whose magical silhouttes were never so finely matched as with the wonderful Joan Aiken's fine short stories . . . A treat" (Evening Standard)
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"A Necklace of Raindrops is something that should be on every child's shelf" (Amanda Craig The Times)
"A little dark and often surreal" (Lydia Fulton Financial Times)
"Jan Pienkowski, whose magical silhouttes were never so finely matched as with the wonderful Joan Aiken's fine short stories . . . A treat" (Evening Standard)
A beautiful audio edition of Joan Aiken's captivating collection of much-loved modern fairytales.
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- PublisherPuffin
- Publication date1975
- ISBN 10 0140307540
- ISBN 13 9780140307542
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages128
- IllustratorPienkowski Jan
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