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Susan and John are having a very dull holiday in the country until they meet Worzel. They are amazed by the walking, talking bundle of clothes and straw. He's half scarecrow and half human but best of all, he's a wizard! Susan and John soon grow to love Worzel and share all sorts of magical adventures with their unusual friend.
Tells the tale of a woman who goes on a cruise and is swept overboard. She lives for three years on a desert island before being rescued by a destroyer in 1943. When she returns to England it seems to her to have gone mad: she cannot buy clothes without 'coupons', and she is considered uncivilised if she walks barefoot or is late for meals.
Worzel Gummidge, the scarecrow from Scatterbrook Farm, goes to the seaside, and finds a kindred spirit in Saucy Nancy, the ship's figurehead with a taste for salty sea songs.
A group of children on holiday discover in a box in the attic an old lamp with a genie ready to obey all wishes.
Alan Alexander Milne (18 January 1882 - 31 January 1956), also known as A.A. Milne was an English writer best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh, which was as well as for children's poetry.A Gallery of Children was published before the "Winnie-the-Pooh", and contains the following collection of twelve Fantasy stories:The Princess and the Apple-Tree / Sparrow Tree Square / The Twins / Miss Waterlow in Bed / Sand Babies / Poor Anne / A Voyage to India / Barbara's Birthday / The Baby Show / The Magic Hill / The Three Daughters of M. Dupont / Castles by the SeaOriginal Illustrations: Illustrator: Henriette Willebeek Le Mair (Saida)
Secret, strange, dark, impure and dissonant...Enter the haunted landscapes of folk horror, a world of pagan village conspiracies, witch finders, and teenagers awakening to evil; of dark fairy tales, backwoods cults and obsolete technologies. Beginning with the classics Night of the Demon, Witchfinder General, The Wicker Man and Blood on Satan's Claw, We Don't Go Back surveys the genre of screen folk horror from across the world. Travelling from Watership Down to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, with every stop inbetween, We Don't Go Back is a thoughtful, funny and essential overview of folk horror in TV and cinema."A beautiful rumination on the dark films and television that shaped me and a...
Scarecrow-come-to-life Worzel Gummidge decides to become a detective in this humorous classic story, the 10th in the series. Obstinate and obstructive but ultimately endearing, Worzels appeal has not been diminished. First published by Evans in 1963.
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