Edward Ardizzone

All sorts of things begin to happen when an orphaned boarding school student finally meets the wealthy guardian with whom she has corresponded for years sight unseen.

When Ginger runs away to go to sea, Tim and Charlotte follow him and, having no money to return home, sign on as members of a ship's crew and have many adventures, including a shipwreck, before they find Ginger again.

In this sweeping novel that spans decades, Thackeray tells of the virtuous and upstanding Colonel Thomas Newcome and of his son Clive. After Clive's mother dies, he is sent to school and studies his true passion, art. Set in the mid 1800s, the novel explores the theme of life repeating itself from one generation to the next-for example, the tendency to sacrifice love in favor of marrying for financial security or for social position. A masterful portrayal...

Adventurer Richard Hannay has just returned from South Africa and is thoroughly bored with his London life -- until a murder is committed in his flat, just days after the victim had warned him of an assassination plot that could bring Britain to the brink of war. An obvious suspect for the police and an easy target for the killers, Hannay goes on the run in his native Scotland, where he must use all his wits to stay one step ahead of the game -- and...

A Welsh poet recalls the celebration of Christmas in Wales and the feelings it evoked in him as a child. This nostalgic recollection of Christmas past by celebrated Welsh poet Dylan Thomas evokes the beauty of the season at every turn. Cover comes with gold foil, glossy front picture; and sparkling snowflakes. Inside comes with blue endpapers sprinkled with more snowflakes.

When barbarians invade ancient Rome and Miranda the cat is separated from her owners, she and her daughter lead a group of kittens to safety in the Coliseum.

Tim rows out to rescue his careless friend Ginger from the rising tide, but their small boat is caught in a storm and dashed upon the rocks before they reach safety.

Tim and his family become very fond of the girl that he and Ginger rescue from the sea, and everyone--or almost everyone--is unhappy when she is taken away by her guardian.

Eight-year-old Derry listens as an old sailor tells him stories of his adventures at sea.