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Books with author Helen Cresswell

  • The Night-Watchmen

    Helen Cresswell

    Hardcover (Faber, Jan. 1, 1969)
    Henry stumbles into a magical world and determines to find out where the night train goes and who the mysterious watchmen are. First published in 1969.
  • The Little Sea Horse

    Helen Cresswell

    Paperback (Hodder & Stoughton Canada, March 15, 2003)
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  • Dear Shrink

    Helen Cresswell

    Hardcover (Isis Large Print Books, April 1, 1987)
    When the woman looking after them in their parents' absence dies suddenly, three children find themselves in foster care and must use all their courage and ingenuity to cope with the situation.
  • The Night Watchmen

    Helen Cresswell

    (The Macmillan Co., Jan. 1, 1969)
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  • The Winter of the Birds

    Helen Cresswell

    Hardcover (MacMillan Publishing Co., Inc., March 15, 1976)
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  • The Piemakers

    Helen Cresswell

    Paperback (Oxford University Press, June 8, 2000)
    Arthy, Jem and Gravella Roller are the finest pie-makers in Danby Dale, famed for their perfect pastry and fantastic fillings. So when they're asked to make a special pie for the king, which will feed two hundred people, the Rollers are thrown into a frenzy of excited preparations. This willbe the best ever Danby Dale pie! But unfortunately, wicked Uncle Crispin, a rival pie maker, has different plans for the Rollers' pie...plans that include an extra large helping of pepper...This funny, charming story was Helen Cresswell's first children's book, and was nominated for the Carnegie Medal. It is now reissued in a smaller, mass-market format.
  • Time Out

    Helen Cresswell

    Hardcover (Lutterworth Press, July 1, 1997)
    Twelve-year-old Tweeny and her parents, servants in a London house in 1887, use a book of magic spells to travel forward in time 100 years and find the England of 1987 to be an astonishing place.
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  • Moondial

    Helen Cresswell

    Paperback (Gardners Books, Oct. 31, 2004)
    Minty is staying with her maiden aunt and discovers that the moondial in the huge house nearby has the power to take her back in time. On her time travels, she meets two children who are desperately in need of help and she encounters danger and excitement in her bid to rescue them.
  • Moondial

    Helen CRESSWELL

    Hardcover (Faber & Faber, Jan. 1, 1987)
    Minty, lonely and worried about her gravely ill mother, investigates the mysterious voices of ghostly children in the big house across the road and, through a magic moondial, meets Tom and Sarah, two children from distant times and places
  • Dear Shrink

    Helen Cresswell

    Mass Market Paperback (Puffin, Feb. 7, 1984)
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  • Lizzie Dripping by the Sea

    Helen Cresswell

    Paperback (BBC Consumer Publishing, Dec. 31, 1990)
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  • Absolute Zero: Being the Second Part of the Bagthorpe Saga

    Helen Cresswell

    Paperback (Avon Books, March 15, 1985)
    Book by Helen Cresswell