Books with author Elizabeth Housden

Have you ever been for a walk in the woods and felt someone watching you?Have you dreamed of finding magic in the world? Do you see unicorns, witches and talking forests in your dreams?In Three Gates: The Chosen, young Elora is visited by a Unicorn from a parallel world called Alo-Earth. Sorcera the Unicorn introduces Elora to the colorful central world of Alo-earth, the world which rules the creative forces of our world.Elora learns about three parallel worlds interconnected by Three Gates, whose fates are intertwined. What happens in our world affects the world of Alo-Earth. The rise of the evil Harpies in Alo-earth bodes disaster for Alo-earth, but also feeds the dark thoughts of people on Earth. As problems increase on our earth and people stop dreaming and believing in the possibilities of magic, the darkness on Alo-Earth grows. Will Elora and her friends be able to bring peace to Alo-Earth - and hope to her own family on earth - before the worlds of the Three Gates are filled with evil?

Out in the Park one day, children, I met a little boy not bigger than you are, who told me that he liked stories about a boy and a dog and the things they did together. He said that it must be a real boy and a real dog, and there must be other animals in the story, not great, big, fierce ones, but just neighborly ones-animals a boy might, perhaps, meet when he went for walks in the woods-and take pictures of and get to know. So this is the story of the way a real boy and a real dog spent their first summer in the real country; and the fun they had together.

"A recipe for happiness: four women, one medieval Italian castle, plenty of wisteria, and solitude as needed. The women at the center of The Enchanted April are alike only in their dissatisfaction with their everyday lives. They find each other-and the castle of their dreams-through a classified ad in a London newspaper one rainy February afternoon. The ladies expect a pleasant holiday, but they don't anticipate that the month they spend in Portofino will reintroduce them to their true natures and reacquaint them with joy. Now, if the same transformation can be worked on their husbands and lovers, the enchantment will be complete."

Excerpt from Christopher and ColumbusThe gulls, circling white against the gloomy sky over the rubbish that floated on the Mersey, made them feel extraordinarily forlorn. Empty boxes, bits of straw, orange-peel, a variety of dismal dirtiness lay about on the sullen water; England was slipping away, England, their mother's country, the country of their dreams ever since they could remember - and the St. Luke with a loud screech had suddenly stopped.Neither of them could help jumping a little at that and getting an inch closer together beneath the rug. Surely it wasn't a submarine already?About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.