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Amy's Three Best Things

Amy's Three Best Things

by Philippa Pearce and Helen Craig
Hardback
Publication Date: 12/11/2013

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In a tale both comforting and magical, a child finds a way to calm her worries during a first visit away from home.

Amy may never have spent a night away from home, but today she declares that she wants to spend not one but three nights at her grandma's house. So she packs a bag, and off she goes. During the day, she and Grandma have a lovely time, but when Amy is alone in bed she starts to miss her mother and her baby brother and their dog, Bonzo. Luckily Amy has brought her three best things for a visit, which offer a heartening taste of home - in the most remarkable ways! From the stellar creative pair of Philippa Pearce and Helen Craig comes a wonderfully reassuring bedtime tale.
ISBN:
9780763663148
9780763663148
Category:
General fiction (Children's / Teenage)
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
12-11-2013
Language:
English
Publisher:
Candlewick Press,U.S.
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
40
Dimensions (mm):
221x273x8mm
Weight:
0.41kg
Philippa Pearce

Philippa Pearce and illustrator Helen Craig share two grandsons, Nat and Will, the sons of their children Sally and Ben. Philippa wrote A Finder's Magic for Helen to illustrate, and the name of the book's hero, "Tillawn" (Till), is an amalgam of the boys' names.

The peculiar relationship between the old and the very young is a constant theme in Philippa's writing and when, late in life, she had the "unexpected delight" of two small grandsons, it gave her a renewed burst of creative energy.

She called being a grandmother "a privilege, a rare, almost inexplicable pleasure - not just fun but something different, more." Philippa Pearce died in December 2006. The Philippa Pearce Memorial Lecture is held annually in September.

Helen Craig

Helen Craig's work includes The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse, shortlisted for the Smarties Book Prize; Rosie's Visitors and the hugely popular stories about Angelina Ballerina.

Of A Finder's Magic, she says:

"In 1996 when Philippa and I first discussed collaborating on a book (for our grandchildren) - I had done a scribble of an odd little man that she thought she would work with. As so often happens, the little odd man she created in the end was quite different. It has been the greatest pleasure for me to illustrate her story and the greatest sadness that she never saw the finished book. I hope she would have been happy with it."

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