Arable And Mortimer Stories
- Publisher : Penguin Random House
- Binding : Paperback
- ISBN : 9780241386576
- Age Group : Early Reader
- Language : English
When arabel's father drives his taxi home late one night he comes across 'a large black bird, with a hairy fringe around ...
When arabel's father drives his taxi home late one night he comes across 'a large black bird, with a hairy fringe around its beak.' he takes it home and, from that moment on, life is never the same again for the Jones family. Arabel's Raven is called Mortimer - and he's one in a million. 'Nevermore!' He cries when astonished or upset, 'down the hatch' He thinks before gobbling bowler hats, stairs, telephones. He dislikes flying except in emergencies, and with disaster-prone Mortimer around there are plenty of those. There are 6 hilarious stories in this classic collection by Joan AIKEN and illustrator Quentin Blake including: arabel's Raven; the escaped black mamba; the bread bin; mortimer's tie; Mortimer &the sword excalilbur and the spiral stair.
JOAN AIKEN was born in Sussex in 1924. She wrote over a hundred books for young readers and adults and is recognized as one of the classic authors of the 20 century. Her best-known books are those in the James III saga, of which the Lewis Carroll prize-winning The Wolves of Willoughby Chase was the first title. Throughout her lifetime she received the Edgar Allan Poe Award in the United States, the Guardian Award for Fiction for The Whispering Mountain, and was named a Member of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II in 1999 for her services to children's books. She died in 2004.
Quentin Blake‘s first book, Patrick, was published in 1968 and was followed by classics such as Mister Magnolia, All Join In, and Clown. He is best known for illustrating Roald Dahl’s books. A patron of the Association of Illustrators, he was awarded the Kate Greenaway Medal in 1980 and the international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2002, and was the inaugural British Children’s Laureate from 1999 to 2001.
