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Tilly och draken
AvHilary McKay
Inbunden, Svenska, 2021, 6-9 år
131 kr
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Tilly hittar en vilsen drake i parken och tar med den hem, och nu bor den i hennes sovrum. Men mamma och pappa vägrar låta draken stanna! Den måste bort, tycker de, trots att den är både trevlig och bra på att rosta bröd med sin eldsprutande nos.
Nu är det upp till Tilly att hitta ett nytt hem åt den hemlösa draken. Frågan är bara - var?
En lättläst berättelse med hög mysfaktor, skriven av den brittiska författaren Hilary McKay.
SMÅ PÄRLOR är en serie barnböcker i ett litet, greppvänligt format, rikligt illustrerade i färg och fulla av roligt extramaterial. Perfekta för högläsning eller som ett första steg att börja läsa vanliga kapitelböcker på egen hand.
Oliver
Band 11/Lime
AvHilary McKay
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
140 kr
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Build your child’s reading confidence at home with books at the right levelFollow the life of a little boy called Oliver as he goes from being a workhouse orphan to a life with a group of young pickpockets. Will he ever manage to escape his life of crime? This wonderful retelling of the classic Charles Dickens story was written by Hilary McKay.This is a Band 11/Lime book in the Collins Big Cat reading programme which has longer sentence structures and a greater use of literary language. This is a retelling of a story by a significant author, and supports literacy learning around extended stories and significant authors. This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader. For more guided reading books in this Collins Big Cat band, try Wild Weather (9780007591282) by Chris Oxlade.
Great Expectations
Band 15/Emerald
AvHilary McKay
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
144 kr
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Build your child’s reading confidence at home with books at the right levelFollow the life of Pip, a poor lonely orphan in Victorian England. Everything changes when he becomes friends with the wealthy Estella. But can Pip leave his past behind? Written to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens’ birth, this inspired retelling is written by Whitbread award-winning author Hilary McKay. Emerald/Band 15 books provide a widening range of genres including science fiction and biography, prompting more ways to respond to texts.Text type: A retelling of a story by a significant authorCurriculum links: History; CitizenshipThis book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.
Becoming Grace
AvHilary McKay
Häftad, Engelska, 2025, 9-12 år
106 kr
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Award-winning Hilary McKay brings the childhood of Victorian heroine Grace Darling to life in this heartfelt reimagining of her life up to and including the Forfarshire shipwreck. Despite her fear of boats, Grace Darling loves her life as the daughter of a lighthouse keeper and spends fun-filled childhood days with her three sisters, four brothers, numerous goats, chickens, cats and her beloved dog, Happy.The only shadows come from the many shipwrecks caused by the poor location of their lighthouse, a problem that seems to be fixed when a new one is built further out on the remote Longstone Rock.But in September 1838, a steamship called the Forfarshire is wrecked on the dangerous Harcar Rock. Grace alerts her father to survivors, but can she find the courage to help him row out through the mountainous waves to rescue them? Particularly suitable for readers aged 9+ with a reading age of 8.
Becoming Grace
AvHilary McKay
E-bok
Engelska, 2025, 9-12 år
60 kr
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Award-winning Hilary McKay brings the childhood of Victorian heroine Grace Darling to life in this heartfelt reimagining of her life up to and including the Forfarshire shipwreck. Grace Darling nearly drowned when she was eight years old, leaving her with a fear of boats and the sea. But it’s a fear she has to overcome as the daughter of a lighthouse keeper, living on the Longstone Rock with her parents, four brothers, three sisters and her beloved dog, Happy.Losses at sea bring shadows to an otherwise idyllic childhood, but everything Grace learns growing up on the coast is put to the test in 1838, when The Forfarshire is wrecked on the Harcar Rock, and she has to row out through the storm to the rescue.
Becoming Grace
AvHilary McKay
Ljudbok
Engelska, 2025
161 kr
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Award-winning Hilary McKay brings the childhood of Victorian heroine Grace Darling to life in this heartfelt reimagining of her life up to and including the Forfarshire shipwreck.Grace Darling nearly drowned when she was eight years old, leaving her with a fear of boats and the sea. But it’s a fear she has to overcome as the daughter of a lighthouse keeper, living on the Longstone Rock with her parents, four brothers, three sisters and her beloved dog, Happy.Losses at sea bring shadows to an otherwise idyllic childhood, but everything Grace learns growing up on the coast is put to the test in 1838, when The Forfarshire is wrecked on the Harcar Rock, and she has to row out through the storm to the rescue.Particularly suitable for readers aged 9+ with a reading age of 8.
Indigo's Star
AvHilary McKay
Häftad, Engelska, 2006
165 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
Permanent Rose
AvHilary McKay
Häftad, Engelska, 2006
175 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
Exiles
AvHilary McKay
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
225 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
Exiles at Home
AvHilary McKay
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
225 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
Exiles in Love
AvHilary McKay
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
194 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
Del 3 - Binny
Binny Bewitched
Book 3
AvHilary McKay
Häftad, Engelska, 2017
89 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
From the winner of the Costa Children's Book Award 2018. The third book in the heartwarming series about Binny and her family.Binny Cornwallis has lost something. Something that wasn't really hers in the first place. With her best enemy Gareth and her beloved dog Max she turns detective to track it down, but the Cornwallis family are anything but helpful. Little brother James and his friend Dill are having an adventure of their own and big sister Clem is acting very strangely. And on top of all this, Binny suspects their next-door neighbour may be a witch ...'Hilary McKay's books are so good you want to climb inside the covers and live there.' - The Telegraph
Straw into Gold: Fairy Tales Re-Spun
AvHilary McKay
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
107 kr
Skickas inom 7-10 vardagar
This book was originally published in hardback as Hilary McKay's Fairy Tales.Straw into Gold: Fairy Tales Re-Spun is a classic fairy tale collection to treasure. Featuring Hilary McKay's imaginative retellings of key favourites, this ten-story collection includes the much-loved tales of Rapunzel, Cinderella, the Princess and the Pea, Rumpelstiltskin, the Pied Piper of Hamelin, the Swan Brothers, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, Red Riding Hood, the Twelve Dancing Princesses and Hansel and Gretel.This gorgeous gift book features black-and-white line and tone illustrations throughout from the talented Sarah Gibb.
Hilary McKay’s Fairy Tales
AvHilary McKay
E-bok
Engelska, 2017
214 kr
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Hilary McKay's Fairy Tales is a classic fairy-tale collection to treasure. Featuring Hilary McKay's imaginative retellings of key favourites, this ten-story collection includes the much-loved tales of Rapunzel, Cinderella, The Princess and the Pea, Rumpelstiltskin, The Pied Piper of Hamelin, The Swan Brothers, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, Red Riding Hood, The Twelve Dancing Princesses and Hansel and Gretel.This gorgeous collection features black-and-white line and tone illustrations throughout from the talented Sarah Gibb.
Del 1 - Hilary McKay's Fairy Tales
Tower and the Bird
A Rapunzel Retelling by Hilary McKay
AvHilary McKay
E-bok
Engelska, 2017
17 kr
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Here is lovely Rapunzel, free from her tower, although perhaps not so free from her fears . . . The Tower and the Bird is an imaginative retelling of the classic fairy tale Rapunzel. Originally featured in Hilary McKay's Fairy Tales, this short story is sure to capture the imagination!From the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize-winning storyteller Hilary McKay and featuring black-and-white line and tone illustrations from the talented Sarah Gibb.
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Chickenpox and Crystal
A Snow White and the Seven Dwarves Retelling by Hilary McKay
AvHilary McKay
E-bok
Engelska, 2017
17 kr
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I asked myself lots of questions, like how could Snow White have left those seven kind dwarves? Perhaps she never quite did.Chickenpox and Crystal is an imaginative retelling of the classic fairy tale Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. Originally featured in Hilary McKay's Fairy Tales, this short story is sure to capture the imagination!From the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize-winning storyteller Hilary McKay and featuring black-and-white line and tone illustrations from the talented Sarah Gibb.
Del 7 - Hilary McKay's Fairy Tales
Over the Hills and Far Away
A Red Riding Hood and Tom the Piper's Son Retelling by Hilary McKay
AvHilary McKay
E-bok
Engelska, 2017
17 kr
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I asked myself lots of questions, like why did the Piper’s son steal the pig? Over the Hills and Far Away is an imaginative retelling which weaves together two classic stories in the fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood and the nursery tale of Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son. Originally featured in Hilary McKay's Fairy Tales, this short story is sure to capture the imagination!From the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize-winning storyteller Hilary McKay and featuring black-and-white line and tone illustrations from the talented Sarah Gibb.
Del 10 - Hilary McKay's Fairy Tales
Sweet William by Rushlight
A The Swan Brothers Retelling by Hilary McKay
AvHilary McKay
E-bok
Engelska, 2017
17 kr
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Here is brave, loyal Elsa, who wove the nettles in silence for seven long years.Sweet William by Rushlight is an imaginative retelling of the classic fairy tale 'The Swan Brothers'. Originally featured in Hilary McKay's Fairy Tales, this short story is sure to capture the imagination!From the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize-winning storyteller Hilary McKay and featuring black-and-white line and tone illustrations from the talented Sarah Gibb.
Del 2 - Hilary McKay's Fairy Tales
Straw into Gold
A Rumpelstiltskin Retelling by Hilary McKay
AvHilary McKay
E-bok
Engelska, 2017
17 kr
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Rumpelstiltskin - all my life I have been troubled by the injustice with which he was treated . . . Straw into Gold is an imaginative retelling of the classic fairy tale Rumpelstiltskin. Originally featured in Hilary McKay's Fairy Tales, this short story is sure to capture the imagination!From the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize-winning storyteller Hilary McKay and featuring black-and-white line and tone illustrations from the talented Sarah Gibb.
Del 8 - Hilary McKay's Fairy Tales
Things Were Different in Those Days
A The Twelve Dancing Princesses Retelling by Hilary McKay
AvHilary McKay
E-bok
Engelska, 2017
17 kr
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Here are the twelve dancing princesses, who drove the Old King to distraction by wearing through their slippers every night. (Which sounds like something he could have made less fuss about, until you do the maths: well over four thousand pairs of slippers a year. Satin slippers too!)Things Were Different in Those Days is an imaginative retelling of the classic fairy tale The Twelve Dancing Princesses. Originally featured in Hilary McKay's Fairy Tales, this short story is sure to capture the imagination!From the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize-winning storyteller Hilary McKay and featuring black-and-white line and tone illustrations from the talented Sarah Gibb.
Del 3 - Hilary McKay's Fairy Tales
Roses Round the Palace
a Cinderella retelling by Hilary McKay
AvHilary McKay
E-bok
Engelska, 2017
17 kr
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Here is Cinderella, who so much deserved her fairy godmother.The Rose Round the Palace is an imaginative retelling of the classic fairy tale Cinderella. Originally featured in Hilary McKay's Fairy Tales, this short story is sure to capture the imagination!From the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize-winning storyteller Hilary McKay and featuring black-and-white line and tone illustrations from the talented Sarah Gibb.
Del 6 - Hilary McKay's Fairy Tales
Prince and the Problem
A The Princess and the Pea Retelling by Hilary McKay
AvHilary McKay
E-bok
Engelska, 2017
17 kr
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Often, I found things were not quite as they first seemed. Not all princesses are content to marry the prince, no matter how charming, or how carefully the queen arranges the peas. The Prince and the Problem is an imaginative retelling of the classic fairy tale The Princess and the Pea. Originally featured in Hilary McKay's Fairy Tales, this short story is sure to capture the imagination!From the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize-winning storyteller Hilary McKay and featuring black-and-white line and tone illustrations from the talented Sarah Gibb.
Del 9 - Hilary McKay's Fairy Tales
What I Did in the Holidays. . .
A Hansel and Gretel Retelling by Hilary McKay
AvHilary McKay
E-bok
Engelska, 2017
17 kr
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I asked myself lots of questions, like what did Hansel and Gretel say to their father when they finally made it home? What I Did in the Holidays . . . is an imaginative retelling of the classic fairy tale Hansel and Gretel. Originally featured in Hilary McKay's Fairy Tales, this short story is sure to capture the imagination!From the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize-winning storyteller Hilary McKay and featuring black-and-white line and tone illustrations from the talented Sarah Gibb.
Del 4 - Hilary McKay's Fairy Tales
Fountain in the Market Square
A The Pied Piper of Hamelin Retelling by Hilary McKay
AvHilary McKay
E-bok
Engelska, 2017
17 kr
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I asked myself lots of questions, like what happened in Hamelin after the children vanished? The Fountain in the Market Square is an imaginative retelling of the classic fairy tale The Pied Piper of Hamelin. Originally featured in Hilary McKay's Fairy Tales, this short story is sure to capture the imagination!From the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize-winning storyteller Hilary McKay and featuring black-and-white line and tone illustrations from the talented Sarah Gibb.
Skylarks' War
AvHilary McKay
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
107 kr
Skickas inom 7-10 vardagar
Winner of the Costa Children’s Book Award.The Skylarks' War is a beautiful story following the loves and losses of a family growing up against the harsh backdrop of World War One, from the award-winning Hilary McKay.Clarry and her older brother Peter live for their summers in Cornwall, staying with their grandparents and running free with their charismatic cousin, Rupert. But normal life resumes each September – boarding school for Peter and Rupert, and a boring life for Clarry at home with her absent father, as the shadow of a terrible war looms ever closer.When Rupert goes off to fight at the front, Clarry feels their skylark summers are finally slipping away from them. Can their family survive this fearful war?'This belongs among the classic of children’s literature . . . Funny, sad, warm, it is about growing up and finding what you love.' – The Sunday Times, Children’s Book of the Week
Skylarks' War
Winner of the Costa Children’s Book Award
AvHilary McKay
E-bok
Engelska, 2018
149 kr
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Winner of the Costa Children’s Book Award.The Skylarks' War is a beautiful story following the loves and losses of a family growing up against the harsh backdrop of World War One, from the award-winning Hilary McKay.Clarry and her older brother Peter live for their summers in Cornwall, staying with their grandparents and running free with their charismatic cousin, Rupert. But normal life resumes each September – boarding school for Peter and Rupert, and a boring life for Clarry at home with her absent father, as the shadow of a terrible war looms ever closer.When Rupert goes off to fight at the front, Clarry feels their skylark summers are finally slipping away from them. Can their family survive this fearful war?'This belongs among the classic of children’s literature . . . Funny, sad, warm, it is about growing up and finding what you love.' – The Sunday Times, Children’s Book of the Week
Straw into Gold: Fairy Tales Re-Spun
AvHilary McKay
E-bok
Engelska, 2018
148 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
This book was originally published in hardback as Hilary McKay's Fairy Tales.Straw into Gold: Fairy Tales Re-Spun is a classic fairy tale collection to treasure. Featuring Hilary McKay's imaginative retellings of key favourites, this ten-story collection includes the much-loved tales of Rapunzel, Cinderella, the Princess and the Pea, Rumpelstiltskin, the Pied Piper of Hamelin, the Swan Brothers, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, Red Riding Hood, the Twelve Dancing Princesses and Hansel and Gretel.This gorgeous gift book features black-and-white line and tone illustrations throughout from the talented Sarah Gibb.
Del 1 - Exiles
Exiles
AvHilary McKay
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
99 kr
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The Exiles was the winner of the 1992 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and is the first novel in Hilary McKay's wonderfully witty and warm The Exiles series.Ruth, Naomi, Rachel and Phoebe Conroy love reading and having fun more than anything else. So the sisters are horrified when they learn that their parents are sending them away to Cumbria for the summer, to stay with their fearsome grandmother: Big Grandma. Big Grandma is strict, makes them do chores and doesn't let them have any fun – but worst of all, she refuses to let the girls read any books. Determined to enjoy their summer, the sisters decide they aren't going to put up with their grandmother's tough regime, and in doing so they somehow manage to cause inordinate amounts of chaos . . . But as the girls search for alternatives to Big Grandma's way of life they slowly start to understand its appeal, just as she starts to understand them. Are the two generations more alike than they think?
Del 1 - Exiles
Exiles
AvHilary McKay
E-bok
Engelska, 2019
132 kr
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The Exiles was the winner of the 1992 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and is the first novel in Hilary McKay's wonderfully witty and warm The Exiles series.Ruth, Naomi, Rachel and Phoebe Conroy love reading and having fun more than anything else. So the sisters are horrified when they learn that their parents are sending them away to Cumbria for the summer, to stay with their fearsome grandmother: Big Grandma. Big Grandma is strict, makes them do chores and doesn't let them have any fun – but worst of all, she refuses to let the girls read any books. Determined to enjoy their summer, the sisters decide they aren't going to put up with their grandmother's tough regime, and in doing so they somehow manage to cause inordinate amounts of chaos . . . But as the girls search for alternatives to Big Grandma's way of life they slowly start to understand its appeal, just as she starts to understand them. Are the two generations more alike than they think?
Del 2 - Exiles
Exiles at Home
AvHilary McKay
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
85 kr
Skickas inom 7-10 vardagar
The Conroy sisters are back! In Hilary Mckay's second book in The Exiles series, The Exiles at Home, the four delightfully troublesome siblings manage to get themselves into yet more mischief.When Ruth Conroy decides to sponsor a child in Africa, she is unprepared for the monthly monetary commitment and is shocked by how difficult it is to find £10 a month . . . In desperation, she enlists the help of her sisters – but Phoebe, Naomi and Rachel are only too eager to think up eccentric fundraising schemes, including wholly undisciplined and unsuitable baby-sitters, an unhygienic catering service and a fraudulent street artist. Whatever the scheme, their hilarious projects never fail to cause chaos and mayhem.

Hilary McKay – författare

Tilly och draken

Oliver

Great Expectations

Becoming Grace

Becoming Grace

Becoming Grace

Indigo's Star

Permanent Rose

Exiles

Exiles at Home

Exiles in Love

Binny Bewitched

Straw into Gold: Fairy Tales Re-Spun

Hilary McKay’s Fairy Tales

Tower and the Bird

Chickenpox and Crystal

Over the Hills and Far Away

Sweet William by Rushlight

Straw into Gold

Things Were Different in Those Days

Roses Round the Palace

Prince and the Problem

What I Did in the Holidays. . .

Fountain in the Market Square

Skylarks' War

Skylarks' War

Straw into Gold: Fairy Tales Re-Spun

Exiles

Exiles

Exiles at Home