A Necklace of Raindrops, Joan Aiken
A Necklace of Raindrops, Joan Aiken
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A Necklace of Raindrops
and Other Stories

Author: Joan Aiken

Narrator: Lizza Aiken

Unabridged: 1 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/05/2016

Synopsis

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 (1924-2004) daughter of Pulitzer prize winning poet Conrad Aiken started writing herself from the age of five. During her lifetime she published over one hundred books for children and adults, including the acclaimed Wolves of Willoughby Chase series. In the UK she received an MBE from the Queen for her services to Children's Literature.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Orinoco Womble (tidy bag and all) on June 19, 2014

Joan Aiken is at her best with this collection of gentle fairytales and fantasy stories, beautifully illustrated by Kevin Hawkes. The pictures are like little jewels themselves, or tiny "raindrops" that reflect the people and events in the stories. An excellent, cosy, curl-up-in-your-favourite-quilt......more

Goodreads review by Manuel on July 24, 2024

ENGLISH: Eight semi-fairy stories by Joan Aiken. Two of them are about cats: "The cat sat on the mat" (and while there granted wishes) and "The baker's cat" (who was made to grow by a dosis of yeast). "A bed for the night" is about The Weevils, a playing group, not too different from Brs. Grimm's Mus......more

Goodreads review by Jazzy on April 05, 2024

Enchanting!......more

Goodreads review by Deb (Readerbuzz) on March 17, 2016

A 1001 CBYMRBYGU. When I picked up my copy of this book from the library, I was initially very disappointed to find that it was a collection of short stories. Then I started the book. Mercy. It was fantastic. Literally and metaphorically. Wonderfully written fantasies. There is one story about a man......more

Goodreads review by John on April 23, 2019

I had never heard of this book, but my wife loved it as a kid, and we ended up with a copy. I just wanted to review it, because I think this is the best ever bedtime story book. The stories are just the right length, and (at least in the edition we have) the illustrations are great. There's not many......more

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