Children's 2011 - Hill of Content Bookshop

Nostalgia
The Rescuers
Margery Sharp
HB $22.95
Miss Bianca, a white
mouse of great beauty and
self-confidence, travels
with the ambassador’s son
to Norway on behalf of the
Prisoner’s Aid Society in a
perilous mission to rescue
a poet imprisoned in the
dreadful Black Castle.
Margery Sharp’s classic tale of pluck, luck and
derring-do is amply and beautifully illustrated by
the great Garth Williams.
The Complete
Adventures Of
The Borrowers
Mary Norton
Boxed Set $45.00
Mary Norton’s beloved,
best-selling books about
the tiny, stouthearted
Borrowers are now
available together in one
gorgeous package, perfect
for gift giving. Includes
paperback editions of The Borrowers, The
Borrowers Afield, The Borrowers Afloat, The
Borrowers Aloft, and The Borrowers Avenged.
The Duchess
Bakes A Cake
Virginia Kahl
HB $25.95
A long time ago there
lived over the waters, a
Duchess, a Duke and
their family of daughters.
Everything went
smoothly and happily in
this large family, until
one day the Duchess decided to make: A lovely
light luscious delectable cake – adding yeast six
times for good measure! So the cake rose and the
Duchess with it – and how are they to get here
down again? It is Gunhilde, the youngest daughter,
who suggests a happy solution.
Andrew Henry’s
Meadow
Doris Burn
HB $19.95
Doris Burn wrote Andrew
Henry’s Meadow while
gazing out her Waldron
Island cabin window in
1965. The antics of her
son, Mark, provided
inspiration for the storyline
of a boy who, ignored by his family, builds a retreat
for himself in a nearby meadow. He is soon joined
by other children for whom he also builds houses,
tailored to their interests and hobbies.
Sleepy Time
Gyo Fujikawa
BB $8.95
Babies yawning,
babies bathing, babies
sweetly slumbering:
day is done and it’s
time for bed, in this
new board book
edition of Gyo
Fujikawa’s classic book. Gorgeous illustrations
contrast children’s night time rituals with a horse
that sleeps standing up, a lazy sloth that snoozes
upside down and animals that doze the winter
away. Families will find this book a lovely way to
say “good night.”
Tikki Tikki Tembo
Arlene Mosel
HB $26.95
Three decades and
more than one million
copies later children still
love hearing about the
boy with the long name
who fell down the well.
Arlene Mosel and Blair
Lent’s classic re-creation
of an ancient Chinese folktale has hooked legions
of children, teachers and parents, who return,
generation after generation, to learn about the
danger of having such an honorable name as Tikki
tikki tembo-no sa rembo-chari bari ruchi-pip peri
pembo.