Record Added: 1/10/2011 A Favorite Book Setting England Topic Collection of Stories History: Great Britain, I Publisher Faber and Faber Ltd. ISBN 0571093612 Year 1986 Age 9-12 Pages 88 Description Purple binding, gold text,
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A collection of eight tales for children, full of the countryside of cowslips and cobwebs, where hawthorn berries are known as "mouse-bread" and astonished mice venturing into a church find food enough for a feast. Alison Uttley also invented the well known figures of Sam Pig and Brock the Badger.
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from England
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