The Starburster Stories

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Follow Tam on three exciting adventures to the land of Faery – where he’ll battle castle nightmares, evil creatures and mischevious fairies!THE STARBURSTERAt first, Tam isn’t at all keen on his baby sister, Blue. But with a little inventive persuasion from Great-grandpa, Tam changes his mind. One terrible night, Blue is stolen – and an ugly fairy changeling is left in her place! It falls to Tam to journey to the magical land of Faery, return the changeling and win back Blue…THE HUMMING MACHINEGreat-grandpa Toby is making so much NOISE! And if Tam can hear the clamour coming from his humming machine, the fairies will too. Soon enough, on the night of a blue moon, Great-grandpa vanishes. Tam must venture to Faery Land once more – but what will he find when he gets there?THE WINDSPINNERFirst the fairies took Tam’s little sister, Blue. Then they took his Great-grandpa Toby. Now Tam has to keep a great secret – not only is Great-grandpa still in Faery as King, but the old King of the fairies, Oban, is now in Tam’s world disguised as a boy Tam’s age!At first, it’s lots of fun having Oban and his magic around. He manages to charm everybody – even Tam’s teacher at school. But then things start to go wrong . . . Three enchanting stories from much-loved, Carnegie Award-winning author Berlie Doherty.Young Corgi books are perfect for building reading confidence

Additional information

Weight0.366 kg
Dimensions3.2 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
Format
language1
Pages

512

Publisher

Year Published

2013-10-3

Imprint

For Ages

7-9

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

0552569755

About The Author

Berlie Doherty began writing for children in 1983, after teaching and working in radio. She has written more than 35 books for children, as well as for the theatre, radio and television. Berlie has won the Carnegie Medal twice: in 1987 for GRANNY WAS A BUFFER GIRL and in 1992 for DEAR NOBODY. She has also won the Writer's Guild Children's Fiction Award for DAUGHTER OF THE SEA. Her work is published all over the world, and many of her books have been televised.

(Of The Humming Machine): The story is told with a great deal of charm

Other text

(Of The Humming Machine): Doherty writes for children with simplicity, pace and zest, making thoroughly modern stories out of tales that have roots delicately lace in Celtic myth

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