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Andersen, H.C. The Little Mermaid and Other Tales
Hippocrene Books Inc.,U.S. 1998 0781807204 / 9780781807203 Hardcover Near fine Near fine Hardcover
Near fine, dusty with slight rubbing. In publisher's quarter bound boards in like dust jacket. Available in our UK premises for prompt dispatch worldwide. These 27 classic stories from the master of fairy tales, Hans Christian Andersen, whisk the reader to magical lands, fantastic voyages, romantic encounters and suspenseful adventures. Children and adults alike will enjoy timeless favourites including: The
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Francesca Lia Block Echo
HarperCollins Children's Books 2001-08-01 0060281278 / 9780060281274 Hardcover Fine Fine Hardcover
Fine in publisher's boards in like dust jacket. Available in our UK premises for prompt dispatch worldwide. Part myth, part dream, and all enchantment, Francesca Lia Block has blessed her glitter fans with another darkly fantastical tale of Los Angeles, "a city of magicians, movie queens, love-struck clowns." On this particular magic carpet ride, Block follows the sad footsteps of Echo, a Hollywood baby born of a dark-souled artist father and an effervescent mother whose impossible beauty likens her to an angel. Echo, who believes that "the only things I know how to do well are shoplift, kiss and dance," feels excluded from her extraordinary parents' perfect love for each other. So she sets out alone to try and fill the cavernous void inside. During her travels, Echo meets a broken angel, iron-pumping vampires, and the fairy daughter of a rock star. Are these figures real? Echo believes in them, and so will the reader, as Block's melodious prose leaves no choice but to accept them as true. Echo finally finds her own true "love-boy" when she learns to look for love within instead of searching for validation through her drugs of choice: food, sex, or doomed relationships. Told in a myriad of voices that belong to Echo, her parents, lovers, and friends, these interconnected short stories are a visual feast of intoxicatingly hip images where the city of Los Angeles is as much a character as the outrageous people that populate its movie-star mansions. Echo's story of salvation will appeal not only to eyeliner-wearing club kids, but to any older teen who's ever felt insecure and lonely in a world full of kissing couples and Hallmark holidays. (Ages 13 and older) --Jennifer Hubert ... Block (The Rose and the Beast) moves to a new level of complexity without sacrificing accessibility for this exquisitely wrought coming-of-age story. The subjects, settings and semi-magical tone will be familiar to Block's readers as Echo, an artistic L.A. teenager, overcomes various forms of rejection in her search for selfhood and true love. Echo lives among angels, false and true, mythic and real, among them Echo's mother, whom Echo thinks is perfect but who appears blind or impervious to her daughter's needs; a famous-artist father whose love for his wife seems to leave no room for Echo; girls Echo wishes she could be; and a nameless, wounded boy who saves Echo from drowning and whose memory sustains Echo as she meets men incapable of loving her. As in previous works, death hangs heavily over the heroine: parents die young, vampires prey on the innocent, children fight terrible disease. Block's structure and imagery, however, manifest a new sophistication and subtlety, as passages and metaphors "echo" one another throughout. She delicately shifts the narrative to show different partners (the heroine's grandparents; the lovers of Echo's friends; a sibling pair) facing similar conflicts, but she quietly varies the individuals' responses. Lyrical passages, such as Echo's descriptions of her mother's extraordinary beauty ("She is like the da Vinci Madonna with a crescent moon hung on her mouth") ripple beneath Echo's life-and-death struggles. This begs not just to be read, but to be reread, and savored. All ages. ... Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
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Herge Tintin and Snowy: Album 1
Last Gasp,U.S. 2006-12-02 0867196688 / 9780867196689 Paperback Near fine n/a Paperback
Near fine in publisher's slightly rubbed decorated wrappers. Available in our UK premises for prompt dispatch worldwide.
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Hobson, Margaret Children's Fiction Sourcebook: A Survey of Children's Books for 6-13 Year Olds
Scolar Press 1995 1859280838 / 9781859280836 Hardcover Near fine Near fine Hardcover
Near fine in publisher's cloth in like dust jacket. Available in our UK premises for prompt dispatch worldwide. This is a reference book on children's fiction. It offers lists of authors; information on classics and series; television representations; lists of awards and those who have won prizes; and a set of indexes organized by author, title and genre.
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Horowitz, Anthony Horowitz Horror (Black Apples S.)
Orchard Books 1999 1841214558 / 9781841214559 Paperback Near fine n/a Paperback
Near fine in publisher's decorated wrappers. Available in our UK premises for prompt dispatch worldwide. Some mysterious deaths linked to a second hand camera, a boy trapped inside a computer game, a frightening journey on a bus that doesn''t seem to exist and a terrifying dream that comes true. These are some of the horror stories in this collection.
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Jeremy Strong Dinosaur Pox
Puffin 1999-01-28 0140389792 / 9780140389791 Paperback Good n/a Paperback
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Klass, David You Don't Know Me
Viking Children's Books 2001 0670912182 / 9780670912186 Hardcover Near fine Hardcover
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McCaughrean, Geraldine Show Stopper!
Oxford Paperbacks 2003 0192753037 / 9780192753038 Paperback Near fine n/a Paperback
Near fine in publisher's decorated wrappers. Available in our UK premises for prompt dispatch worldwide. Near fine in publisher's decorated wrapper.
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McCaughrean, Geraldine Show Stopper!
Oxford Paperbacks 2003 0192753037 / 9780192753038 Paperback Near fine n/a Paperback
Dusty, else fine in publisher's decorated wrappers. Available in our UK premises for prompt dispatch worldwide. Dusty, else near fine in publisher's decorated wrapper.
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