Best Selling Books by Nicola Bayley

This is the illustrated story of the seaside village of Mousehole Cornwall, where Mowzer the cat lives happily with old fisherman Tom - Tom who rocks the rocking chair just right, and catches fresh fish for dinner every night. Their life is a happy one - until one terrible winter, the Great Storm-Cat comes clawing and snarling and leaping at the harbour walls, so that no boat can go out to sea to fish. Soon, with Christmas coming, there is no food left in Mousehole. It is then that Mowzer and Tom set out to brave the fury of the waves together, and discover that it might just need a cat''s perspective to understand - and tame - the ferocious ways of the Great Storm-Cat sea.

The numbers from one to twelve are presented by dignified animals and captioned by tongue-twisters.

A cat imagines what it would be like to be a parrot and live in the jungle.

Talitha, daughter of the king, figures out how to deal with the monster who has left the Wilderness and is interrupting the peace of the great Garden of the World.

Color drawings accompany a collection of well-known nursery rhymes.

Cats imagine what it would be like to be a parrot, elephant, polar bear, crab, and spider

Color drawings accompany a collection of well-known nursery rhymes.

When the Great Storm-Cat threatens the small English village of Mousehole, only an old fisherman''s cat can soothe its fierceness during a dangerous sea venture.

A cat imagines what it would be like to be a spider, spinning, eating, and playing in the garden.