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Books in Gregg Press Children's Literature Series series

  • Linnets and Valerians

    Elizabeth Goudge, Ian Ribbons

    Hardcover (Gregg Pr, April 1, 1981)
    Left in the care of their strict grandmother, the four Linnet children find a much happier home with their Uncle Ambrose, his one-legged gardener, and the people of a small English village, where they help explain an old mystery and restore the joy of new friends.
  • The Maplin Bird

    K. M Peyton

    Paperback (Gregg Press, )
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  • Nurse Matilda

    Christianna Brand

    Hardcover (Gregg Press, March 15, 1980)
    The incorrigible Brown children, who devour nannies, nurse-maids, and governesses, finally meet their match.
  • The Little White Horse

    Elizabeth Goudge, C. Walter Hodges

    Hardcover (Gregg Pr, April 1, 1980)
    In 1842, newly orphaned Maria Merryweather, her governess, and dog arrive at her ancestral home in an enchanted village in England's West Country where the people's bliss is marred by a dark shadow.
  • Circus Shoes

    Noel Streatfeild, Richard Floethe

    Hardcover (Gregg Pr, April 1, 1981)
    After the death of the aunt they had been living with, Peter and Santa, orphans, join their Uncle Gus, who works as a clown in the circus
  • The Return of the Twelves

    Pauline Clarke, Bernarda Bryson

    Hardcover (Gregg Pr, Feb. 1, 1981)
    Max discovers that the wooden soldiers which once belonged to the Brontes are alive and determined to return home
  • The Minnow leads to treasure

    Philippa Pearce

    Unknown Binding (Gregg Press, Jan. 1, 1980)
    Two English boys, with just an old riddle for a clue, spend a summer searching the banks of the river for a treasure hidden by the ancestors of one of the boys.
  • We didn't mean to go to sea

    Arthur Ransome

    Hardcover (Gregg Press, Jan. 1, 1981)
    While on vacation in East Anglia, four children, whose previous sailing experience is limited to dinghies, accidentally drift out to the North Sea after the rising tide causes their cutter to drag anchor.
  • Ounce, Dice, Trice

    Alastair Reid, Ben Shahn

    Hardcover (Gregg Pr, April 1, 1980)
    An illustrated collection of old and new words features words to be used during singing moods, words for times of day, and rude names for nitwits and defines such words as gongoozler, tantony, and oose
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  • Mistress Masham's Repose

    T. H. White, Fritz Eichenberg

    Hardcover (Gregg Pr, April 1, 1980)
    A lonely little heiress mistreated by her evil guardians discovers the descendents of the Lilliputians living on her estate and soon befriends them
  • The Magic City

    Edith Nesbit, H. R. Millar

    Hardcover (Gregg Pr, Sept. 1, 1981)
    An extremely unhappy 10-year-old magically escapes into a city he has built out of books, chessmen, candlesticks, and other household items.
  • Children's Literature: Volume 16

    Professor Francelia Butler, Professor Margaret R. Higonnet, Assoc. Prof. Barbara Rosen

    Paperback (Yale University Press, Sept. 10, 1988)
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