Welcome to the wonderful world of Patrick! For when he play his violin, the most extraordinary things start to happen: fish can fly, cow can dance and trees grow cake instead of apples. There's firesworks and fun and colours everywhere, when Patrick performs his magical tunes...
Here is SIMPKIN - fat and thin, sensible and silly, smooth and rough - in this delaightful book from award-winning author illustrator, Quentin Blake.
The bear is behaving very strangely indeed: collecting moss, logs and branches to build a winter house. The other animals think this is silly, and laugh at him, but when winter comes, bear is cosy in his winter house while the other animals suffer in the cold. Being a very kind bear, he invites the others in. Unfortunately for the bear, they are too excited to sleep, and it seems he will get no…
"Snuff, at this rate it will be a very long time before we make a knight out of you." Snuff can't wait to be a knight and have lots of adventures, but Sir Thomas Magpie despairs of him, as Snuff doesn't always get thimgs right. But when Bootmaker is raided by thieves, Snuff might just have an idea of how to svae the day...
Mister Magnolia has an old trumpet that goes rooty-toot, some very fat owls that are learning to hoot, and a big purple dinosaur who's a magnificent brute. But poor MIster Magnolia has only one boot!
Seven washerwomen, sick of their work, go on an uncontrollable rampage, only to meet their match in seven very dirty woodcutters.
This story is about "real witches" - who dress in ordinary clothes, look like ordinary women, but loathe all children. The seven-year-old hero and his grandmother are pitted against them at a witches convention, at which the witches are plotting to exterminate every child in England.
A small boy with a desire to own a candy shop meets a window-washing team composed of a giraffe, a pelican, and a monkey and together they go to work for the wealthy Duke of Hampshire, who makes all their dreams come true.
A young boy and his Norwegian grandmother, who is an expert on witches, together foil a witches' plot to destroy the world's children by turning them into mice.
A young boy escapes from two wicked aunts and embarks on a series of adventures with six giant insects he meets inside a giant peach.
Summary: George decides that his grumpy, selfish old grandmother must be a witch and concocts some marvellous medicine to take care of her First published: 1981
Originally published in Great Britain in 1968 Summary: Angered by a neighbouring family's sport hunting, an eight-year-old girl turns her magic finger on them