Author : Noel Streatfeild
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0349014434
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)
Book Synopsis The Growing Summer by : Noel Streatfeild
Download or read book The Growing Summer written by Noel Streatfeild and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2021-05-06 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BY THE AUTHOR OF BALLET SHOES with beautiful illustrations by Edward Ardizzone 'A joyous, sunlight book. For me, the best Noel Streatfeild of all' HILARY MCKAY '"You have a whole wing of the house to yourselves. The glorious world outside to play in. All that the earth brings forth to feed you, and you stand there asking foolish questions until my head reels. Help yourselves, children, help yourselves." Then, flapping her cloak as if to shoo off a clutter of chickens, Great Aunt Dymphna was gone.' Summer will be different for the Gareth children this year. Their father, an epidemiologist, is ill abroad, and their mother must go to help him. So Alex, Penny, Naomi and Robin are sent to Ireland to stay with an eccentric distant relative. Great Aunt Dymphna is like nobody they've ever met. She lives in a ramshackle house, quotes swathes of poetry and flits about like a great bat. And, to the children's consternation, she expects them to fend for themselves. Despite tears and many mishaps, they learn something new every day, and living with Great Aunt Dymphna becomes an adventure.