The Marvellous Inventions of Marmaduke Mouse
‘‘I couldn’t stop reading it!’
– Toby, aged 10
‘Everyone’s bookshelf should be crammed with it!’
– Tia, aged 10
‘Funny and anarchic’
– Imogen Foxell, illustrator
‘Laughed out loud in places; grinned the whole way through.’
– Dory, mum.
Bored stiff at school, eleven-year-old Noah finds relief when a flamboyant inventor mouse called Marmaduke appears from under his bed and declares Noah to be his chosen assistant. Marmaduke takes Noah down into Mouseland where the inventor’s wacky creations – an exploding marshmallow, a machine that turns shoes into ice-lollies, an out-of-control trampoline, and more – get them into sticky scrapes with Mouseland’s grumpy Mayor. But when things start going seriously wrong at school, Noah wonders whether Marmaduke will come up with an invention to save the day, or simply make his life an even messier muddle.
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Tolstoy’s Sea Stories for Children
When years ago, Carol Peaker came across Tolstoy’s children’s stories, she noted that few of them had been published in English, and none recently. The stories she has collected and lovingly translated all have the sea as a common theme, and suggest resilience and hope.
The Climbing Tree
Safi and his sister Sue are looking for a tree to climb. But it’s not easy: the trees are all too tall or prickly or bendy! Can they find a climbing tree before it’s dark and time for tea? Who… or what… will they find when they reach the top!
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