The Scarecrow and His Servant

Featuring wonderful new illustrations from Peter Bailey, this brilliantly funny and moving tale by multi-award winning Philip Pullman, is perfect for readers young and old. 
 
One night, during a terrible thunderstorm, a boy named Jack shelters in a barn. The following morning he is confused to find a scarecrow with a turnip head calling out to him. For a moment he thinks he is imagining it. But he isn't, the scarecrow has been struck by lightning in exactly the right way to bring him completely to life. 
 
Jack becomes the scarecrow's personal servant and together they decide to set out and see the world. It is a journey that neither of them could have possibly imagined, filled with adventure - and it will change them both in ways they never expected . . .

[W]ritten for children with utmost respect for and delight in their intelligence, humour and imagination

Philip Pullman (Author) 
Philip Pullman is one of the most highly respected children's authors writing today. Winner of many prestigious awards, Pullman's epic fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials has been acclaimed as a modern classic. He lives in Oxford. 
 
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Philip Pullman is one of the most highly respected children's authors writing today. He lives in Oxford.

Clockwork or All Wound Up

Tick, tick, tick, tock. Once you've wound some things up nothing can stop them . . . 
 
It is a cold winter's night when Karl enters the White Horse Tavern looking like he's swallowed a thundercloud. His final task as a clockmaker apprentice is to make a new figure for the great clock of Glockenheim. He has not made the figure - or got any idea of what it could be, and the unveiling is tomorrow. 
 
Fritz is also in the tavern; there to read aloud his new spooky story. Like Karl, he hasn't finished. Well, he knows how the story starts and he knows it's called Clockwork - so, with the snow swirling down outside, he sets his story going and just has to hope that the ending will come to him as he tells it. 
 
Suddenly, Fritz's story and real life merge in a completely sinister way - and just like clockwork it can't be stopped . . .

A thrilling masterwork on stories that become real

It has the feel of a classic fairy tale. It's the most elegantly constructed, chilling story

Exciting, scary, romantic and deliciously readable

Philip Pullman (Author) 
 Philip Pullman is one of the most highly respected children's authors writing today. Winner of many prestigious awards, Pullman's epic fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials has been acclaimed as a modern classic. He lives in Oxford. 
 
[INSERT ILLUSTRATOR HERE] 
Philip Pullman is one of the most highly respected children's authors writing today. He lives in Oxford.

Tick, tick, tick, tock. Once you've wound some things up nothing can stop them . . . 
 
 It is a cold winter's night when Karl enters the White Horse Tavern looking like he's swallowed a thundercloud. His final task as a clockmaker apprentice is to make a new figure for the great clock of Glockenheim. He has not made the figure - or got any idea of what it could be, and the unveiling is tomorrow. 
 
 Fritz is also in the tavern; there to read aloud his new spooky story. Like Karl, he hasn't finished. Well, he knows how the story starts and he knows it's called Clockwork - so, with the snow swirling down outside, he sets his story going and just has to hope that the ending will come to him as he tells it. 
 
 Suddenly, Fritz's story and real life merge in a completely sinister way - and just like clockwork it can't be stopped . . .

The Firework-Maker's Daughter

From the author the His Dark Materials trilogy and La Belle Sauvage. 
 
Featuring wonderful new illustrations from Peter Bailey this beautiful fairytale is perfect for readers young and old. 
 
Lila doesn't just want to be a Firework-Maker's daughter, she wants to be a Firework Maker herself. But although she's learned a lot she still must get through the most difficult and dangerous part of her apprenticeship - and her father won't tell her what it is. 
 
In search of this final Firework-Making secret, Lila heads off alone on a journey. It is a journey filled with dangers beyond anything she could have imagined, a journey on which she will learn so much more than the one secret she set out to find . . .

Full of hilarious, lovable characters this is a book you will want to read over and over again

Philip Pullman (Author) 
Philip Pullman is one of the most highly respected children's authors writing today. Winner of many prestigious awards, Pullman's epic fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials has been acclaimed as a modern classic. He lives in Oxford. 
 
[INSERT ILLUSTRATOR HERE] 
Philip Pullman is one of the most highly respected children's authors writing today. He lives in Oxford.

Featuring wonderful new illustrations from Peter Bailey this beautiful fairytale is perfect for readers young and old. 
 
Lila doesn't just want to be a Firework-Maker's daughter, she wants to be a Firework Maker herself. But although she's learned a lot she still must get through the most difficult and dangerous part of her apprenticeship - and her father won't tell her what it is. 
 
In search of this final Firework-Making secret, Lila heads off alone on a journey. It is a journey filled with dangers beyond anything she could have imagined, a journey on which she will learn so much more than the one secret she set out to find . . .

I Was a Rat! Or, The Scarlet Slippers

Featuring wonderful new illustrations from Peter Bailey, this intriguing and exciting tale of chance and misfortune by multi award-winning Philip Pullman, is perfect for readers young and old. 
 
I was a Rat! Roger insists, and insists . . . In fact, when Bob the cobbler and his washerwoman wife, Joan, find the young boy abandoned on their doorstep, these are the only words he says. And he does have ratty behaviour, it's true. 
 
Staying with Bob and Joan, however, Roger learns quickly to behave more like a human child. They try to find his parents, but the orphanage, police and hospital all have nothing on their records about a lost boy in the city. What is the truth? As more and more people find out about Roger the mysterious rat-boy he faces more and more danger. But sometimes help comes from the most unexpected of places . . .

[A] perfectly shaped story . . . a fairy tale, an adventure, a parody and certainly a book that shines

Fairy tale, satire, slapstick humour and suspenseful melodrama . . . a glorious tale

Philip Pullman

Peter Bailey

The Firework Maker's Daughter 
I Was A Rat! 
Clockwork 
The Scarecrow and His Servant 
 
A devilish inventor, a girl who must face a Fire Fiend, a scarecrow brought to life by a bolt of lightning, and a boy who can only say the words 'I Was a Rat!' . . . 
 
Drawing on the rich tradition of fairytales, these are four incredible stories that will obsess and enchant readers. 
 
Includes a prologue and epilogue from the uniquely talented Philip Pullman, author of His Dark Materials

Peter Bailey

Four Tales

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