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"This is how it all began..." From 'A Necklace of Raindrops' to 'The Patchwork Quilt', here are eight classic stories to treasure and enjoy. Beginning and ending with a birthday, this spell-binding collection conjures up a world filled with magic, where wishes can come true. A necklace of raindrops that keeps its owner dry in the heaviest rainstorm; a tiger that runs faster than the wind; a huge floating apple pie with a piece of sky in it; a baker's cat who swells to the size of a whale when his mistress feeds him yeast; a house that stands on one leg - these are just some of the objects and characters that figure in these delightful 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 new edition of Joan Aiken's captivating collection of much-loved modern fairytales, now reissued with Jan Pienkowski's original and iconic silhouette illustrations.
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- PublisherJonathan Cape
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0224083805
- ISBN 13 9780224083805
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages108
- IllustratorPienkowski Jan
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