Books with author Susan Price

Create a fond memory of parent and child, cuddling together and giggling as they turn the pages of ‘Three Billy Goats Gruff.’Susan Price, who wrote the words, is a well-known writer for children and young people, who won the prestigious Carnegie medal for her work. Andrew Price is an accomplished graphic artist who provides illustrations full of humour, colour and character.This well-known, traditional story of ‘Three Billy Goats Gruff’ tells how the goats outwit a troll and live to feast on the greener grass at the other side of the bridge.Each page is packed with detail. It’s told in a vivid, comic-book style, with sound-effects arching across pages and the words in many speech-bubbles begging to be shouted aloud. Plenty of opportunity to enjoy making a noise together!The text is short, but full of repeated phrases and rhymes. Children will soon be able to join in the telling, as well as learning to recognise many of the printed words.Early prowess in reading pays dividends throughout a child’s education: and learning to listen to and follow a story is a valuable skill in itself. Encouraging a love of stories and reading is perhaps the greatest boost a parent can give to their child’s education — as well as the opportunity to be close and enjoy the tale.If you and your child love reading funny, exciting, page-turning picture-books together, then you’ll both love Susan and Andrew Price’s fresh retelling of ‘Three Billy Goats Gruff.’Buy ‘Three Billy Goats Gruff’ by Susan and Andrew Price for cuddles and giggles today!There’s also a Three Billy Goats’ Activity Book where children can colour in the pictures and help Little Goat fill in words and letters missing from the story. Very good for reading and writing practice!

A new edition of the enthralling original fairy-story for readers of 6 to 10, from double award winning author, Susan Price. A bad summer, and the crops didn’t grow. Now winter is coming. Everyone is hungry. People search desperately for the last of the nettles and acorns. Elka and her little brother Daw huddle under their blankets, trying to keep warm. Elka is too hungry to sleep. Awake in the dark, she overhears her parents whispering. “I don’t want to watch them starve. Take them into the wood and leave them. Take them far in, so they won’t find their way back, and leave them.” The next day their father takes them into the wood, to look for mushrooms. Daw goes along innocently, holding his father’s hand. Elka follows because she doesn’t want Daw to be alone. The light fades. Their father vanishes into the darkness among the trees. He doesn’t come back. And then come the wolves… Where do these lost children belong – in the village with the people who left them to starve? Or, in the wood, with the wolves? REVIEWS 'No one writes this kind of dark tale better than Price... brilliantly reworks folk themes... an atmospheric and poignant story. Not a word is wasted.' Books For Keeps. 'This is a powerful piece of writing - a folk tale where difficult issues are confronted, no compromises allowed and no happy ending guaranteed. There's no escaping the anger of the little girl who decides to leave the world of her parents and remain with the pack of wolves who looked after her - nor the loneliness of the brother who pines for her at the edge of the forest. This is a classic.' Carousel. Because of the continued demand for this book from schools and parents, it has been republished by the author, with new illustrations by Andrew Price. Susan Price is an acclaimed, prize-winning author who won the Carnegie Medal in 1987 with Ghost Drum and the 1998 Guardian Children's Fiction Award for The Sterkarm Handshake. She wrote her first book aged 16 and became a full time writer aged 22. She now has over twenty children's novels to her name and has been described as 'one of the best contemporary writers for children' by Susan Hill in the Daily Telegraph.

Sarah's Gran Gornal is a witch.So is her Uncle Bryan.Sarah's parents won't let her have a dog because of the cost of feeding it and taking it to the vet.Uncle Bryan says he'll make her one that won't need food or the vet.He makes her a bone-dog.Sarah finds she can make it do anything she wants.Even bad things that she knows she shouldn't do...And Sarah starts to enjoy her new-found power...

Sarah's Gran Gornal is a witch. So is her Uncle Bryan. Sarah's parents won't let her have a dog because of the cost of feeding it and taking it to the vet. Uncle Bryan says he'll make her one that won't need food or the vet. He makes her a bone-dog. Sarah finds she can make it do anything she wants. Even bad things that she knows she shouldn't do... And Sarah starts to enjoy her new-found power...

People have told stories since the world began — and everybody has a story. Old Mr. Grimsby, retired and a widower, makes a hobby of collecting stories. He collects stories from his housemaid, and from the housemaid's grandmother, from an old soldier, and from a dying woman. Late one night, as he walks home past a churchyard, he's joined by a large black dog, a Churchyard Grim, which leads him out of this world to Heaven's Gate - and tells him a story to pass the time as they walk. And in Heaven, the Virgin Herself pours the tea and tells a tale... From the beginning to the end, we tell stories. Everybody has a story. The Story Collector is a collection of folk-tales, retold by the acclaimed writer, Susan Price. Here are old stories, wise stories, funny and sad stories, of life, death and rebirth; of loss and love.