Books with author Ursula Moray Williams

A Puffin Book - stories that last a lifetime. Puffin Modern Classics are relaunched under a new logo: A Puffin Book. There are 20 titles to collect in the series, listed below, all with exciting new covers and fun-filled endnotes. Gobbolino by Ursula Moray Williams is the charming tale of a witch's cat who would rather be a kitchen cat. Gobbolino has one white paw and blue eyes and isn't wicked at all, so his mother doesn't like him. He escapes to look for a kitchen home but is distrusted everywhere he goes and blamed for mysterious happenings, such as the farmer's milk turning sour and the orphanage children's gruel turning into chocolate. A perfect story for A Puffin Book with charming black and white illustrations by the author, Ursula Moray Williams. Ursula Moray Williams was born on 19 April 1911 at Petersfield, Hampshire, ten minutes after her twin sister, Barbara. She wrote and illustrated over sixty books for children with the most notable being Gobbolino the Witch's Cat and The Adventures of the Little Wooden Horse. Ursula Moray Williams died in October 2006. Also available in A Puffin Book: GOODNIGHT MISTER TOM and BACK HOME by Michelle Magorian CHARLOTTE'S WEB, STUART LITTLE and THE TRUMPET OF THE SWAN by E. B. White THE BORROWERS by Mary Norton STIG OF THE DUMP by Clive King ROLL OF THUNDER, HEAR MY CRY by Mildred D. Taylor A DOG SO SMALL by Philippa Pearce GOBBOLINO by Ursula Moray Williams CARRIE'S WAR by Nina Bawden MRS FRISBY AND THE RATS OF NIMH by Richard C O'Brien A WRINKLE IN TIME by Madeleine L'Engle THE CAY by Theodore Taylor TARKA THE OTTER by Henry Williamson WATERSHIP DOWN by Richard Adams SMITH by Leon Garfield THE NEVERENDING STORY by Michael Ende ANNIE by Thomas Meehan THE FAMILY FROM ONE END STREET by Eve Garnett

Gobbolino is the charming tale of a witch's cat who would rather be a kitchen cat. Gobbolino has one white paw and blue eyes and isn't wicked at all, so his mother doesn't like him. He escapes to look for a kitchen home but is distrusted everywhere he goes and blamed for mysterious happenings, such as the farmer's milk turning sour and the orphanage children's gruel turning into chocolate. After many such adventures, Gobbolino finally finds the home of his dreams.

The protagonist, the 16-year-old Amanda, grew up in a small inn near the village of Dalmally. She lived a simple and protected life with a loving father and grandmother till one cold January morning some dreadful news shattered her life.“Clouds of snow drifted across the frozen meadow like bands of golden gossamer as morning broke over Glen Orchy. Amanda lay awake in her cosy bed and gazed dreamily at the crystalline ice flowers that covered her window. Soon she would have to get up and help her grandmother to prepare some food for the early travellers. Today was the first market day after Hogmanay so that the inn would be bustling with travelling tradesman, farmers and people from the surrounding villages and hamlets. Amanda looked forward to the latest news but most of all, to the visit of her friends. It is going to be a fantastic day; she thought as she closed her eyes, hoping that she could remain in bed a bit longer. Little did she know that the news she longed to hear would shatter her life and replace her feeling of serenity with fear and tribulation. And soon, very soon, she would learn that her survival depended on her friend’s loyalty, the ability to fight and the help from beings she considered to be a vivid imagination of the old folks.”