The Starlight Barking
10 best books like The Starlight Barking (Dodie Smith): King Stork, Silly Verse For Kids, Carbonel: The King of the Cats, Gemma, Thomasina, Flambards in Summer, Silver Brumby Kingdom, The Midnight Folk, Raven's End, Wonder Tales: Six French Stories of Enchantment
| Author | Howard Pyle |
| ISBN | 0688158137 |
Minimal dragons and lions, despite what the blurb implies. No dragons, no lions, despite what the blurb says. I can't tell for sure, but I don't think the text is Pyle's original (despite no mention of an adaptation, when I find picture captions for Pyle's original art the language is much more archaic)....
| Author | Spike Milligan |
| ISBN | 0140303316 |
Silly Verse for Kids - a hilarious collection of silly poems by Spike Milligan! A collection of the absurd, ridiculous, sublime and characteristically anarchic verse from the brilliant Spike Milligan. With his very own illustrations, this collection, which includes the famous On the Ning Nang Nong...
| Author | Barbara Sleigh |
| ISBN | 1590171268 |
Back in print in the U.S. for the first time in over 30 years.
Rosemary's plan to clean houses during her summer break and surprise her mother with the money hits a snag when an old lady at the market talks her into buying a second-rate broom and a cat she can't even afford to keep. But appearances...
| Author | Noel Streatfeild |
| ISBN | 0440428599 |
This is the first of the four 'Gemma' books, written as contemporary novels in the late 1960s. I read this many times as a child and teenager, and it very much reflected everyday life as I knew it, as a child in that era. It features a typical Streatfeild family with very little money and lots of talent.
It’s...
| Author | Paul Gallico |
| ISBN | 0930330935 |
From what I knew (or thought I knew) about this book, I’d expected an adventure story of cat who gets put down but manages to survive and find her way back to her girl—and a children’s story. But while it was that at one level, it was so much more, and certainly not a children’s story. It is the story...
| Author | K.M. Peyton |
| ISBN | 0192750542 |
Omläsning. Serien om Flambards blir bättre ju längre man kommer. Sommar på Flambards är den tredje delen och den jag tycker bäst om. Det här hade jag inte alls väntat mig när jag började min omläsning av de här tre böckerna.
Christina är nybliven änka och återvänder till det Flambards...
Re-read!
The conclusion of Baringa and Lightning's story and another excellent book in the Silver Brumby Series!
Baringa is coming into his own power and slowly making a herd for himself when disaster strikes and he must set off to find the one he loves most in the world. While Lightning...
| Author | John Masefield |
| ISBN | 0006724167 |
‘Don’t you have any fear, Kay. We’re the guards, we are. We hear that the house has gone all to sixes and sevens since we left it, but that’s going to be remedied now’
Young Kay Harker lives in an old house in the country, filled with portraits of his ancestors. His only companions are...
| Author | Ben Gadd |
| ISBN | 1578050944 |
Raven's End came to my shelf as a rabbit-trail result of my first-time visit to the Canadian Rockies this year. Bibliophiles, you know how it goes . . . one book leads you to another, and that one to another, almost ad infinitum.
After learning a little about the book and first searched for it, I...
| Author | Marina Warner |
| ISBN | 0195178211 |
Once upon a time, in the Paris of Louis XIV, five ladies and one gentleman-- all of them aristocrats-- seized on the new enthusiasm for "Mother Goose Stories" and decided to write some of them down. Telling stories resourcefully and artfully was a key social grace, and when they recorded these elegant...
| Author | Philippa Pearce |
| ISBN | 0140302069 |
Philippa Pearce’s poignant story of a young boy who longs for a pet dog.
Young Ben Blewitt is desperate for a dog. He’s picked out the biggest and best dogs from the books in the library—and he just knows he’s going to get one for his birthday. Ben is excited when the big day arrives, but...
| Author | Willard Price |
| ISBN | 0099182211 |
What a fantastic adventure.
But... it was missing 2 vital things. But we'll get to that.
I can't believe that this book was written before Google was around. I can't imagine the amount of research that went into this novel.
It is fantastically educational. Every animal mentioned in the...
| Author | Albert Payson Terhune |
| ISBN | 1406953113 |
This is one of Albert Payson Terhune’s best stories about his famous dogs. Bruce was a collie, a superb specimen of his wonderful race.
How he got to “The Place,” and how he developed from an “ugly duckling” into the joy and pride of his master and mistress, and how he went overseas and...
| Author | Mary Stanton |
| ISBN | 0671698206 |
While i liked the characters in this book awhole lot more, i felt alot of it was too easy? not believable? It was like, the story is great, alot of potential, but the author didn't want to take the time to lead you there. Also,at the beginning of the book, I like Piper...alot. But by the end, he loses something,...
| Author | Mary Calhoun |
| ISBN | 0064400301 |
I think this is my favorite of the Katie John books just because she is struggling with such an identifiable struggle: growing into a young lady but not wanting to act like everyone else who had turned unrecognizable and boy crazy. I think just hearing me read it might have made my daughters feel better...
Nya hyss av Emil i Lönneberga
A charming and hysterically funny tale of a naughty little boy who is also incredibly sweet-natured.
He gets into all sorts of wild and entertaining scrapes, and he often doesn't realize till afterward that he's been naughty, because his behavior makes perfect sense to him--or else it's an...
| Author | Enid Blyton |
| ISBN | 0006923046 |
What a treat to read this book again for the first time in about 45 years! I was obsessed with this book as a small child, I read it over and over. I drove my parents nuts wanting a collie! And now, at the same time as reading this book I finally do have my own border collie (unlike the breed used throughout the...
Allan Marley and his father have lived together in the untamed wilderness of the Beaver Flowage all their lives. But when Mr. Marley is jailed because of a bitter feud, Allan suddenly finds himself on his own. Then he meets Stormy, an outlaw dog who has been accused of turning on his owner. Allan knows that...
| Author | Judith Kerr |
| ISBN | 0001010719 |
This is a story of woeful neglect and misplaced trust. It is a warning to new parents: be careful – be very careful – when choosing a babysitter. Because like the unfortunate Mrs Clutterbuck, you might come home to find your baby wandering on the road, in the path of oncoming traffic, without an adult...
