Download or read book Arabel Mortimer and the Escaped Black Mamba written by Joan Aiken and published by Frances Lincoln Children's Books. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Arabel and the raven Mortimer spend a fun-packed evening with their favourite babysitter, Chris Cross, they have no idea of the chaos they create in their wake. A reckless game of dressing up and hide and seek results in a big crash, a trumpet wedged onto Mortimer's head and a milk shortage. While Arabel, Mortimer and Chris are out replacing the milk, Arabel's parents return home to find the house empty and apparently ransacked. They fear the worst! Can it be that a black mamba has escaped from the zoo or has Arabel been kidnapped? Policemen, firemen and anxious ladies comb the streets in search of the missing trio, who are blissfully unaware of the chaos they have caused.
Download or read book Arabel and the Escaped Black Mamba written by Joan Aiken and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Arabel And Mortimer written by Joan Aiken and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2007-09-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this silly sequel to Arabel's Raven, Mortimer floats out to sea on a grand piano, tries to get even with three giraffes that have stolen his doughnuts at the zoo, and takes off with King Arthur's sword. Will Arabel ever be able to control her troublemaking pet raven?
Download or read book Arabel s Raven written by Joan Aiken and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2007-09-01 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young Arabel's life is changed forever when her father, a taxi driver, brings home an injured bird he finds in the street. This wacky raven eats everything in sight, answers the telephone by squawking "Nevermore!" and causes chaos wherever he goes--but Arabel loves her new feathered friend, whom she names Mortimer. This is the first volume of Arabel and Mortimer's adventures, brightened with hilarious illustrations by Quentin Blake.
Download or read book Arabel and Mortimer Stories written by Joan Aiken and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2019-06-06 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arabel and her notorious raven Mortimer make a welcome return to Puffin Books! When Arabel's father, Ebenezer Jones, drives his taxi home late one night he comes across 'a large black bird, with a hairy fringe around its beak.' He takes it home and from that moment on, life is never the same again for the Jones family. Arabel's raven is called Mortimer - and he's one in amillion. 'Nevermore!' he cries when astonished or upset, 'Down the hatch' he thinks before gobbling bowler hats, stairs, telephones. He dislikes flying except in emergencies, and with disaster-prone Mortimer around there are plenty of those. There are six hilarious escapades in this collection, brought to life by Quentin Blake's wonderfully animated illustrations.
Download or read book The Escaped Black Mamba written by Joan Aiken and published by . This book was released on 1973-01-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Small Pinch of Weather written by Joan Aiken and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2000 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magical and fantastic collection of early stories by one of the most original children's authors of the 20th century. For 8-11 year olds.
Download or read book The Wolves of Willoughby Chase written by Joan Aiken and published by Doubleday Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2014-08-27 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wicked wolves and a grim governess threaten Bonnie and her cousin Sylvia when Bonnie's parents leave Willoughby Chase for a sea voyage. Left in the care of the cruel Miss Slighcarp, the girls can hardly believe what is happening to their once happy home. The servants are dismissed, the furniture is sold, and Bonnie and Sylvia are sent to a prison-like orphan school. It seems as if the endless hours of drudgery will never cease. With the help of Simon the gooseboy and his flock, they escape. But how will they ever get Willoughby Chase free from the clutches of the evil Miss Slighcarp?
Download or read book Mortimer and Arabel written by Joan Aiken and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Go Saddle the Sea written by Joan Aiken and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2007-05-01 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Felix Brooke, the orphaned son of an English soldier and an aristocratic Spanish mother, has been raised in the strict, loveless household of his grandfather in Villaverde, Spain. When Felix gains possession of a letter that contains a clue to the whereabouts of his father’s family, he gladly runs away form home to pursue the trail. His journey from Spain to far-off England begins the adventure of a lifetime.
Download or read book Bridle the Wind written by Joan Aiken and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second book in an adventure trilogy set in the early nineteenth century
Download or read book The Spiral Stair written by Joan Aiken and published by Barn Owl Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Noah the boa using his coils to work the doughnut machine and with the three giraffes tangled upon the spiral stair, Mortimer's first night in a zoo was one to be remembered for a long, long time.
Download or read book Mortimer and the Sword Excalibur written by Joan Aiken and published by Barn Owl Books. This book was released on 2005-07-01 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the fifth title to be published by Barn Owl about Arabel and her beloved but impossible raven, Mortimer. An enormous hole is being dug in the park and rumour has it that King Arthur's round table is buried there. None of this interests Mortimer however; his fancy has been taken by the giant grass-cutting machine, the LawnSabre. Mortimer finally gets to work the machine but with disastrous consequences for the round table and the sword Excalibur! Another funny and outrageous story about Arabel and Mortimer from Joan Aiken and Quentin Blake.
Download or read book The Teeth of the Gale written by Joan Aiken and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2007-05-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now eighteen, Felix sets out across the mountains of Spain to rescue three children kidnapped by their father. Along the way, he hopes to see his true love, Juana, who has entered a convent. But his rescue party is being followed, and Felix fears he and the children are being led into a trap.
Download or read book Mortimer s Bread Bin written by Joan Aiken and published by Barn Owl Books. This book was released on 2001-10-01 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mortimer the Raven is causing yet more chaos and mayhem in Rumbury Town. Things get even worse when Arabel takes Mortimer roller-skating with her three nasty cousins Cindy, Mindy and Lindy. But when Arabel gets very ill and is languishing in hospital it is Mortimer who saves her, though some of the other patients have a difficult time - to say nothing of the staff!
Download or read book Pardon This Intrusion written by John Clute and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2016-11-24 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pardon This Intrusion gathers together 47 pieces by John Clute, some written as long ago as 1985, though most are recent. The addresses and essays in Part One, "Fantastika in the World Storm", all written in the twenty-first century, reflect upon the dynamic relationship between fantastika - an umbrella term Clute uses to describe science fiction, horror and fantasy - and the world we live in now. Of these pieces, "Next", a contemporary response to 9/11, has not been revised; everything else in Part One has been reworked, sometimes extensively. Parts Two, Three and Four include essays and author studies and introductions to particular works; as they are mostly recent, Clute has felt free to rework them where necessary. The few early pieces - including "Lunch with AJ and the WOMBATS", a response to the Scientology scandal at the Brighton WorldCon in 1987 - are unchanged.
Download or read book Mortimer s Cross written by Joan Aiken and published by . This book was released on 1992-01 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
