Books with title A Friend Like Annabel

"I saw your friend Annabel in the High Street," said Kate's mother. "There was a duck following her around. It went into the newsagent's after her.""Yes," said Kate absently.She's completely bonkers - but then she's British! Classic comedy featuring 13-year-old Annabel Bunce, her best friend Kate Stocks, their assorted schoolmates [and some fairly eccentric grown-ups!] in the small English country town of Addendon. Five complete stories in one volume.PRESS DESCRIPTIONS:'Sparkling Annabel comedies...Alan Davidson's resourceful, unbowed heroine is a kind of female William.....the sophisticated vocabulary, take-it-or-leave-it approach to jokes and general assumption of readers' intelligence is thoroughly refreshing' - THE GUARDIAN'Hilarious situations...really good fun' - BBC RADIO 4Alan Davidson is the author of four further collections of ANNABEL stories, all available in Kindle. They are JUST LIKE ANNABEL [Book 2], EVEN MORE LIKE ANNABEL [Book 3], THE NEW, THINKING ANNABEL [Book 4] and LITTLE YEARNINGS OF ANNABEL [Book 5]. Other old favourites reissued as Straw Hat eBook Collectables include Davidson's chicken coop comedy ESCAPE FROM COLD DITCH and Anne Digby's TREBIZON school series.

Adorable photos of unlikely-but-true animal friends, paired with easy-to-read text, create a heartwarming portrait of the many faces of friendship.Photographer Tanja Askani adopts orphaned or injured animals -- wolf pups, raccoons, owls, rabbits, and fawns, among others -- and under her care, unexpected friendships form. This collection of Tanja's heart-meltingly cute photographs, accompanied by simple text celebrating the comforts and delights of friendship, is sure to appeal to anyone who loves animals and appreciates a true friend.

Squirrel and Bird are very different. One animal likes nuts and the other likes worms! But both of them are happy to try something new. And together they make the very best of friends. A beautiful tale of unlikely friendship brought to life with stunning illustrations from Sean Julian (Bear Can’t Sleep, My Dad!). A Friend Like You is the perfect storybook for encouraging children to enjoy making friends and being brave enough to try new experiences.

This book is an illustrated version of the original My Friend Annabel Lee by Mary MacLane. “Sometimes my friend Annabel Lee is negative and sometimes she is positive. Sometimes when my mind seems to have wandered infinitely far from her I realize suddenly that ’tis she who holds it enthralled. Whatsoever I see in Boston or in the vision of the wide world my judgment of it is prejudiced in ways by the existence of my friend Annabel Lee—the more so that it’s mostly unconscious prejudice. Annabel Lee’s is an intense personality—one meets with intense personalities now and again, in children or in bull-dogs or in persons like my friend Annabel Lee. And I never tire of looking at Annabel Lee, and I never tire of listening to her, and I never tire of thinking about her.”

BUT the only person in Boston town who has given me of the treasure of her heart, and the treasure of her mind, and the touch of her fair hand in friendship, is Annabel Lee. Since I looked for no friendship whatsoever in Boston town, this friendship comes to me with the gentleness of sunshowers mingled with cherry-blossoms, and there is a human quality in the air that rises from the bitter salt sea. Years ago there was one who wrote a poem about Annabel Lee—a different lady from this lady, it may be, or perhaps it is the same—and so now this poem and this lady are never far from me. If indeed Poe did not mean this Annabel Lee when he wrote so enchanting a heart-cry, I at any rate shall always mean this Annabel Lee when Poe’s enchanting heart-cry runs in my mind.