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Patience John
Need help keeping the conversation flowing smoothly on dates? You're not alone. Many like-minded individuals find themselves in a similar boat, including my friend Lisa, who once confided in me…
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Are you concerned about how to raise a good child? or could it be giving you a restless night thinking of how to be a good mother and win in…
John Patience
Three short stories and two poems about dragons - from fearsome to friendly - with sumptuous, colourful, detailed and fun illustrations. Always a happy ending!
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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Mary Dillon
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
John Hollingshead, James Albery, F.C. Burnand, W.S. Gilbert
"A volume of four plays satirizing the key figures of the Aesthetic Movement from 1877 to 1881"--
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If you like teddy bears you are going to love Edward Tall and Teddy Small. Join the teds and their toyshop friends on their adventures when the toy shop is…
The Fern Hollow animals are so excited when Sports Day arrives at last, but first the prizes fall in the river and then there’s a terrible storm! It looks like…
A picture book from the ever-popular Tales from Fern Hollow series of 17 titles, richly illustrated in traditional style, for ages 3-93. Now back in print from the author/illustrator’s (John…
Fern Hollow’s Midsummer Banquet is set to be extra special because everyone will be dressed in medieval costume. Unfortunately, Lord Trundle somehow gets trapped in the tower of a ruined…
Fern Hollow is a wonderful place to live. Ask Professor Sigmund Swamp or old Brock Gruffy to tell you about their lovely little village and they will talk all day…
Brock is not normally an adventurous sort of badger but when he finds a hot air balloon he just has to try it out. Flying high in the sky is…
Lord Trundle decides that Fern Hollow should have its own brass band. The musical instruments are delivered and the animals begin to practise, but when the naughty weasels Snitch and…
The first book in the Tales from Fern Hollow series, with detailed, colourful and cheerful illustrations, for ages 3-93.
Meet Brock Gruffy (badger), Sigmund Swamp (toad), Policeman P C Hoppit…
Four stories, series 3 of classic Tales from Fern Hollow series, illustrated in traditional style with detailed, colourful and cheerful illustrations. Charming stories of animal folk, popular since first published…
When Mrs Merryweather posts a letter to her dear friend Mrs Willowbank and Mr Periwinkle the Fern Hollow postman loses it, who knows where the letter will end up? This…
A collection of four stories from the original 16 titles in the classic Tales from Fern Hollow series, illustrated in traditional style with 32 detailed, colourful and cheerful double-page spreads…
The day for the annual seaside trip has arrived and the Fern Hollow animals are all excited. Granny Bouncer enjoys a trip to the seaside as much as anyone but…
Fern Hollow teacher, Miss Crisp, takes her class on a school trip to Heron Island. All the children are well-behaved except Pippa and Patch. The two naughty rabbits get lost…
Spike Willowbank is a very good violin player but some of his friends make fun of him. When a cowboy band arrives in Fern Hollow to play at the Music…
This is the second of four planned collections of the original 16 titles in the classic Tales from Fern Hollow series, illustrated in traditional style with 64 pages of detailed…
Four stories from series 4 of Tales from Fern Hollow series, illustrated in traditional style with detailed, colourful and cheerful illustrations. Charming stories of animal folk, still popular since first…
The morning of the village fete was bright and clear and everyone was bubbling over with excitement. In the corner of the field a small crowd had gathered around a…
40th Anniversary Edition. This is the book that introduced the village of Fern Hollow and the animal characters who live there. Tales from Fern Hollow grew into 16 stories which…
After a storm, the Rusty family’s house is flooded and they have to take refuge on the roof! Things look very bad for this fox family. What can they do…
Dr John Coates,Maureen Lipman
A hilarious 1953 novel about a ‘happily married’ Catholic mother of three living in St John’s Wood who falls ‘improperly in love’.
Dora Greenwell
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to…
Dora Greenwell,John G Whittier
The Patience of Hope is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1862. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science…
The Patience of Hope is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1863. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science…
Dora Greenwell,John Greenleaf Whittier
The patience of hope is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1863. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science…
This edited collection by scholars of both history and anthropology re-examines the concepts of resistance and the effect of neoliberalism from the 1980s to the present day comparing Brazil and…
John Ryland, Andrew Fuller
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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