New Releases by Jill Paton Walsh

Colour illus. A collection of stories for young readers.

Cal and Dio set out, along with a few of their friends, on an extraordinary journey to discover the torch''s true meaning and to find its home.

Expecting the usual carefree and happy summer with her cousin Paul at their grandmother''s seaside home, Madge finds this summer to be different from all the others.

A Stone Age boy loses an arrowhead that is found by a young girl several centuries later, while the jug she has lost is found centuries later by a young boy, whose own lost sixpence is found by a little girl in the present day.

Born in England, Dulcie is sad when she is unable to share the memories her friends David and Leslie have of Jamaica, their first home.

Creep accidentally travels back in time to the British Industrial Revolution, while, in the present, his half brother is anxiously searching for him. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Madge Fielding finds her life dramatically changed during the summer she rents her grandmother''s house in Cornwall to an Oxford professor and a group of his students.

SUMMARY : Fascinated by the canal boats going past her house, a young girl inadvertently finds herself traveling with them as a member of the crew.

In Ra''s prehistoric tribe, each man makes his own tools and hunts for himself and his family. One evening Ra needed light from Grandmother''s fire to finish an ax, and Yul, another hunter, saw that Ra''s ax was better than his own. He offered to share the day''s hunt with Ra if Ra will make a fine ax in trade. Others wanted the same, but for young Ra to make all the tools needed by his Stone Age tribe is a new idea for all of them, and provides Ra with a skill that saves his life when he is abandoned by his tribe for forgetting how to hunt.

Adam finds an implement like a Stone Age axe which he carries everywhere but which appears to give him bad dreams. He gives his treasure to a terrified, caged gorilla, feeling it is not r̀ight to lock people up.'' The gorilla escapes but Adam gets back his axe.

Eight stories of Anglo-Saxon times when raiders came from the North, and Paganism and Christianity struggled for recognition.

Eight stories of Anglo-Saxon times during the period of six hundred years between the time the Romans left England and the Norman Conquest in 1066.