Katie Cotton
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Poetic rhyming text is paired with beautiful, atmospheric illustrations in this story about survival and love in the animal kingdom. From birds flying to warmer climes, to mice digging burrows, all the parent-and-child pairs of animals know that the road home is long and hard, but they have each other, so the road is home.
Author
Publisher
Andersen Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
1945. War has ended, but for sisters Isobel and Flora the struggles still continue. They've lost their father and had their home destroyed in a bombing raid, and now they must go to live with their aunt and her awful husband Mr Godfrey in their ancestral home, Splint Hall. From the moment of their arrival it seems that this is a place shrouded in mysteries and secrets. Who are the strange men who arrive with packages at night? What is the source...