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This novel is a retelling of Genesis, and the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden. Its American author is 70 years old, and remarkably this is…
The Ark has landed; the ground is rocky and bare. Mrs Noah misses her garden –what can she do? The earth is warm, in her pockets are seeds, carried in…
…mess in the tea shop. It transpires that Alyssa has magical powers like Jasmine, their magic activated by plants and Jasmine runs Silver Leaf Spell Garden and Magic School. Alyssa…
The horticultural media are these days full of wildlife-friendly ideas and the idea of the garden being a habitat as well as a tapestry or an artist’s canvas is gaining…
…fashionable to speak of the cranny-crawlers as ‘mini-beasts’ and that’s what ‘Garden Bugs’ means here. Unwin and Sanchez show and tell us about 20 commonly-occurring garden invertebrates so that we…
…Her influences are clear – The Secret Garden is one, the novels of Noel Streatfeild another – and from these she takes that ability to create characters the reader can…
…vision of another person. Thirdly the book has a great deal of intertextuality with late nineteenth and early twentieth century classics such as The Secret Garden and Alice in Wonderland….
…very readable. The author talks of her story as a prequel to The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, a book of its time, but as the heroine is not…
Ruby lives in the city and Grampa in the country, but through their letters they share a warm and intense relationship. Grampa tells Ruby about the magpies in his garden…
…to his gravelly grey body. The children join the Secret Beast Club, and their adventures begin. They soon learn so much about mythological creatures, and especially unicorns. They are amazed…
Review also includes: The Secret Dinosaur: Hunter’s Attack!, 978-0992752514 These are the first of a new series of short novels for growing independent readers about a group of dinoteks,…
…measure. The story is about Olive who just could not keep a secret. When she tells her friend Joe, he tells his pal and so on until it gets back…
…about Fair-trade issues as they read!) Maya’s secret is that her mum is a famous singer and she does not want the celebrity attention that goes with having a famous…
When Miss MacLachlan leaves Japan, she leaves behind a secret – a secret she entrusts to her favourite pupil, Tatsuo, together with a tiny blue glass. For Miss MacLachlan brought…
…terrible tragedy has befallen her family, leaving her an orphan. From the very start Emmaline tell us she has a secret, that she can see winged horses living in the…
Grandad’s Secret Giant is David Litchfield’s enchanting follow-up to his prizewinning debut, The Bear and the Piano. According to Billy’s grandad, there’s a giant living secretly in the town who…
Betty loves to visit her grandma every summer in the village of Wobbly Bottom. She especially delights in the garden, Acorn Hollows, which all the residents of grandma’s terrace of…
Here is a Royal Horticultural Society backed activity book with lots of do-able ideas for garden-related crafts and activities. There are accessible science bits, clear explanations of plant physiology and…
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