Tells the stories of an old woman and her pet badger, a girl who wins a sketchbook, a boy's friendship with an old fisherman, a former Nazi soldier living in England, and two girls who taunt a strange old man
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About the Author:
Janni Howker is an award-winning author. Her work includes The Nature of the Beast, winner of the Whitbread Children's Novel Award, winner of the Young Observer Teenage Fiction Prize and Highly Commended for the Carnegie Medal; Isaac Campion, shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal; and Martin Farrell. Her non-fiction picture book Walk with a Wolf was shortlisted for the Kurt Maschler Award and the TES Junior Information Book Award. She lives in Cumbria with her son and a variety of animals.
From Publishers Weekly:
Old people and young reach mutual understanding in this collection of memorable stories. Ages 1014.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherPuffin
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 0140322531
- ISBN 13 9780140322538
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages201
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