Sally Gardner Libri

Nella Londra del Diciassettesimo secolo, Coriander Hobie ha ragione di credere nella felicità. La sua infanzia trascorre radiosa, protetta dal padre Thomas, un mercante di seta, e dalla madre Eleanor, donna sapiente e gentile, profondamente esperta di erbe medicamentose. Niente sembra poter turbare quella pace; ma all'improvviso, quasi inspiegabilmente, Eleanor Hobie muore, e oltre al terribile dolore di quella perdita Coriander si trova a dover affrontare un'amara realtà: la monarchia inglese è caduta, i repubblicani di Cromwell hanno preso il potere, suo padre è considerato un traditore e rischia la condanna a morte. In un estremo, disperato tentativo di salvarsi e passare inosservato al nuovo regime, Thomas si risposa. Ma con la nuova moglie in casa Hobie arriva anche il flagello del sospetto, del fanatismo, della ferocia; e più pericoloso di tutti arriva il predicatore Arise Peli, violento e privo di scrupoli. Costretto alla fuga, Thomas abbandona Coriander nelle mani, dei due criminali: in una notte d'incubo, Coriander viene picchiata, trascinata in una stanza e chiusa a chiave in un baule. Ma invece di morire, una nuova vita le si apre davanti: una vita in un luogo dove il tempo non ha significato dove i mortali non possono arrivare e dove viene incaricata di una missione che cambierà per sempre il suo futuro

A delightful storybook narrated by dressmaking fairies as they embroider the Fairy Queens ball gown.

When Timmy Twinkle kicks a ball - it's magic!

This beautifully packaged box set includes TEN titles from the Early Reader series by popular authors, featuring stories like "The Kitten With No Name," "Horrid Henry's Underpants," and "Cinderella."

What happens when a small girl finds she can lift something as big as a bus ...

A brand new Early Reader edition of million-copy selling, CARNEGIE MEDAL- winning Sally Gardner's picture book based on the favourite nursery rhyme.

The tiny Tindims are like the Borrowers-on-Sea, who turn our everyday rubbish into treasure. A world of characters and adventures to inspire conservation and inventive ways to recycle.

Presents illustrated versions of "Cinderella," "The Princess and the Pea," and other popular fairy tales about princesses.

1937. War clouds gather over Britain. Amaryllis Ruben is hiding a secret even he does not understand. In a bluebell wood stands a picture palace. Her father built it to house his invention; one that could change the war-torn world forever. He plans to give it to her on her seventeenth birthday. But it's a present Amaryllis doesn't want, and in it is a past she must come to terms with and a boy whose name she can't remember

'There were three things that marked out Lucy Willow as different. The first was that she lived on a train. The second was that she had a snail called Ernest as a pet. And the third, the most important of all, was that she had green fingers.' It's Lucy's green fingers that save the day when Silverboots McCoy the famous footballer and his girlfriend Blossom B order flowers for their wedding - for Ricky Sparks, who runs the rival garden centre, will stop at nothing to get the contract for himself. Longer and fuller than the Magical Children books, LUCY WILLOW has all Sally Gardner's soaring imagination, enchanting humour and great heart, and is rich in scenes and characters that readers will adore and always remember.