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Powdered sea-horse, green-glass tree snails and moonbeams: these are the ingredients for Mrs Lallyday Lee's moon cake. Can Tom resist a taste? This collection of short stories also tells of a dancing palm tree, entrancing music and hatching dragons.
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Joan Aiken is the author of over a hundred books for adults and children, many of them classics. She worked on the magazine, Argosy, and wrote hundreds of short stories before her first novel, The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, was published in the early `60s. It was highly praised in Time magazine and its success allowed Joan to write full-time thereafter. She has said, "I would never want to do anything but write stories. It is inventing your own world, using all the bits of the real one that you like best. And that is something you can do anywhere, at any time."
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As a volunteer reading helper for primary school children, I have had the opportunity to read many wonderful books. I spotted this book immediately and took it home to read so that I would know if it was to the children's taste. I found it to be enchanting and full of imagination. These short stories have titles such as Barmkins are best, The Furious Tree and Petticoat Palm. They are strange, witty and all come from the children's perspective. The small illustrations are delightful. The ways in which some of characters speak may be difficult for some younger children to grasp but older, more experienced readers will not find such difficulties. My only criticism is that a few of the stories don't have a very satisfying ending, leaving the reader to interpret the ending but that is the nature of short stories.
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