A Necklace of Raindrops - Softcover

Aiken, Joan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0440464005 ISBN 13: 9780440464006

Publisher: Dell Pub Co, 1971

Synopsis

Lively illustrations enhance this collection of magical bedtime tales about flying apple pies, egg-laying houses, giant cats, and other fantastical creatures.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

Here are eight gloriously imaginative stories for eight satisfying sessions of bedtime reading. There?s a flying apple pie, a cat that?s bigger than an elephant, a house that lays an egg, storybook animals that leap out of their books at night, and a wealth of other wonderful characters and ideas, all with the colorful, dreamlike quality of the very best fairy tales.

Joan Aiken?s delicious prose is a joy to read aloud to very young listeners yet simple enough for the independent reader to savor on his or her own. Kevin Hawkes?s illustrations ? nearly 60 of them ? capture with great flair and fun the magical adventures and the triumph of the good over the bad.

About the Author:

Joan Aiken is the author of more than 35 distinguished children’s books, including the classic The Wolves of Willoughby Chase.

Kevin Hawkes has illustrated several award-winning picture books, as well as Philip Pullman’s novel I Was a Rat.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dell Pub Co
• Publication date: 1971
• ISBN 10: 0440464005
• ISBN 13: 9780440464006
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 107
• Illustrator: Pienkowski Jan