young people
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Great Northern? A Scottish Adventure of Swallows and Amazons
- £12.00
- Swallows & Amazons Book 12. The final book in Ransome's acclaimed series. Once again, the children set out on an adventure (this one off the coast of Scotland) with a minimum of parental advice and interference. Here, the story centers on a desperate race to thwart the efforts of pernicious…
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How the Whale Became and other stories
- £100.00
- This collection of eleven evocative, accessible and funny stories for children of 5+ tells how a particular animal came to be as it is now. The Whale grew up in God's vegetable patch but was banished to sea when he became too large and crushed all His carrots; the Polar…
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Howard & Oberlin: The Great Philanthropists
- £35.00
- From Chambers' Popular Biographies series. John Howard was an English prison reformer (1726-1790); John Frederick Oberlin (1740-1826) was a pastor and philanthropist in Alsace, after whom Oberlin, Ohio and Oberlin College in the USA are named.
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Ink (Ink Trilogy 1)
- £9.00
- The page-turning, heart-in-mouth first book in the bestselling INK trilogy. Every action, every deed, every significant moment is tattooed on your skin for ever. When Leora's father dies, she is determined to see her father remembered forever. She knows he deserves to have all his tattoos removed and made into…
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Jim Davis
- £8.00
- Masefield's novel for children
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Just William’s Luck
- £30.00
- Crompton's William series Book 26. The only full-length Just William novel. William and the Outlaws decide to form the Knights of the Square Table, ‘rightin’ wrongs’ for a minor fee (‘Small wrongs: sixpence. Big wrongs: one shillin’.) In their quest to earn enough money to become tramps, they stop at…
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Martin Hyde, the Duke’s Messenger
- £80.00
- After his father's death in 1685, 12-year-old Martin goes to London to live with his uncle. Through circumstances he becomes messenger for James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, as the Duke garners support for his claim to succede Charles II as King of England. With 16 b/w plates.
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Meet my folks
- £100.00
- Other folks get so well known, And nobody knows about my own,' Have you met my sister Jane? She's a great big crow! My Grandpa is an owler and Grandma knits jerseys for wasps! And my other Granny is an octopus... Meet Aunt Flo, Brother Bert and more extraordinary family…
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Meet My Folks!
- £25.00
- Other folks get so well known, And nobody knows about my own,' Have you met my sister Jane? She's a great big crow! My Grandpa is an owler and Grandma knits jerseys for wasps! And my other Granny is an octopus... Meet Aunt Flo, Brother Bert and more extraordinary family…
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Merry Mr. Punch
- £25.00
- From the 'Larger Dumpy Books for Children' series (which I suppose is a reasonable description of the book. It is all very silly and not a little violent.
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Missee Lee – a sequel to Peter Duck
- £18.00
- Swallows & Amazons Book 10. Nancy Blackett, the terror of the seas, has finally met a real pirate - the tiny, pistol-carrying Missee Lee, who has rescued them after their shipwreck off the coast of China. The only trouble is she wants to keep them. forever.
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New Cautionary Tales
- £35.00
- A follow up to Belloc's wildly successful Cautionary Tales for Children: Designed for the Admonition of Children between the ages of eight and fourteen years (1907). Like its predecessor, this a parody of the cautionary tales that were popular in the 19th century.
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Now We Are Six
- £20.00
- But now I am Six, I'm as clever as clever. So I think I'll be six now for ever and ever!' Curl up with Winnie-the-Pooh and Christopher Robin in A. A. Milne’s classic book of poetry for children, Now We Are Six. This work includes poems for children which feature…
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Now We Are Six
- £18.00
- But now I am Six, I'm as clever as clever. So I think I'll be six now for ever and ever!' Curl up with Winnie-the-Pooh and Christopher Robin in A. A. Milne’s classic book of poetry for children, Now We Are Six. This work includes poems for children which feature…
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Oksa Pollock, The Forest of Lost Souls (DOUBLE SIGNED)
- £25.00
- Trapped in a nightmare. No one has ever escaped... Oksa's powers are growing. So are the dangers. Oksa Pollock has made some pretty incredible discoveries in the last few months, not least that she's the queen of the lost magical land of Edefia. As if that wasn't enough for any…
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Great Northern? A Scottish Adventure of Swallows and Amazons
- £12.00
- Swallows & Amazons Book 12. The final book in Ransome's acclaimed series. Once again, the children set out on an adventure (this one off the coast of Scotland) with a minimum of parental advice and interference. Here, the story centers on a desperate race to thwart the efforts of pernicious…
- Add to basket
-
How the Whale Became and other stories
- £100.00
- This collection of eleven evocative, accessible and funny stories for children of 5+ tells how a particular animal came to be as it is now. The Whale grew up in God's vegetable patch but was banished to sea when he became too large and crushed all His carrots; the Polar…
- Add to basket
-
Howard & Oberlin: The Great Philanthropists
- £35.00
- From Chambers' Popular Biographies series. John Howard was an English prison reformer (1726-1790); John Frederick Oberlin (1740-1826) was a pastor and philanthropist in Alsace, after whom Oberlin, Ohio and Oberlin College in the USA are named.
- Add to basket
-
Ink (Ink Trilogy 1)
- £9.00
- The page-turning, heart-in-mouth first book in the bestselling INK trilogy. Every action, every deed, every significant moment is tattooed on your skin for ever. When Leora's father dies, she is determined to see her father remembered forever. She knows he deserves to have all his tattoos removed and made into…
- Add to basket
-
Jim Davis
- £8.00
- Masefield's novel for children
- Add to basket
-
Just William’s Luck
- £30.00
- Crompton's William series Book 26. The only full-length Just William novel. William and the Outlaws decide to form the Knights of the Square Table, ‘rightin’ wrongs’ for a minor fee (‘Small wrongs: sixpence. Big wrongs: one shillin’.) In their quest to earn enough money to become tramps, they stop at…
- Add to basket
-
Martin Hyde, the Duke’s Messenger
- £80.00
- After his father's death in 1685, 12-year-old Martin goes to London to live with his uncle. Through circumstances he becomes messenger for James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, as the Duke garners support for his claim to succede Charles II as King of England. With 16 b/w plates.
- Add to basket
-
Meet my folks
- £100.00
- Other folks get so well known, And nobody knows about my own,' Have you met my sister Jane? She's a great big crow! My Grandpa is an owler and Grandma knits jerseys for wasps! And my other Granny is an octopus... Meet Aunt Flo, Brother Bert and more extraordinary family…
- Add to basket
-
Meet My Folks!
- £25.00
- Other folks get so well known, And nobody knows about my own,' Have you met my sister Jane? She's a great big crow! My Grandpa is an owler and Grandma knits jerseys for wasps! And my other Granny is an octopus... Meet Aunt Flo, Brother Bert and more extraordinary family…
- Add to basket
-
Merry Mr. Punch
- £25.00
- From the 'Larger Dumpy Books for Children' series (which I suppose is a reasonable description of the book. It is all very silly and not a little violent.
- Add to basket
-
Missee Lee – a sequel to Peter Duck
- £18.00
- Swallows & Amazons Book 10. Nancy Blackett, the terror of the seas, has finally met a real pirate - the tiny, pistol-carrying Missee Lee, who has rescued them after their shipwreck off the coast of China. The only trouble is she wants to keep them. forever.
- Add to basket
-
New Cautionary Tales
- £35.00
- A follow up to Belloc's wildly successful Cautionary Tales for Children: Designed for the Admonition of Children between the ages of eight and fourteen years (1907). Like its predecessor, this a parody of the cautionary tales that were popular in the 19th century.
- Add to basket
-
Now We Are Six
- £20.00
- But now I am Six, I'm as clever as clever. So I think I'll be six now for ever and ever!' Curl up with Winnie-the-Pooh and Christopher Robin in A. A. Milne’s classic book of poetry for children, Now We Are Six. This work includes poems for children which feature…
- Add to basket
-
Now We Are Six
- £18.00
- But now I am Six, I'm as clever as clever. So I think I'll be six now for ever and ever!' Curl up with Winnie-the-Pooh and Christopher Robin in A. A. Milne’s classic book of poetry for children, Now We Are Six. This work includes poems for children which feature…
- Add to basket
-
Oksa Pollock, The Forest of Lost Souls (DOUBLE SIGNED)
- £25.00
- Trapped in a nightmare. No one has ever escaped... Oksa's powers are growing. So are the dangers. Oksa Pollock has made some pretty incredible discoveries in the last few months, not least that she's the queen of the lost magical land of Edefia. As if that wasn't enough for any…
- Add to basket
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