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The Bakery of Happiness
by Ian Beck
Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2019 by Barrington Stoke
ISBN-13: 978-1-78112-878-7, ISBN: 1-78112-878-2

"Paul du Pain's bakery is a very special place. Each day, Paul bakes the bread while Marie serves customers in the shop. Everyone who walks in the door walks back out feeling happier than before. But when Marie goes away, Paul's days become sad and grey. Without her, the bakery's magic is gone. Will Paul ever be able to win her back? A charming, heartfelt and timeless tale from an award-winning author-illustrator."






The Teddy Robber(Updated)
by Ian Beck
Paperback, 32 Pages, Published 2006 by Transworld Publishers
ISBN-13: 978-0-552-55319-3, ISBN: 0-552-55319-0

"The wonderfully funny tale of the giant who steals children’s teddy bears because he lost his own.Someone is stealing Teddies. But who is the Teddy Robber? Tom is going to find out. A friendly, warmhearted and cheerful story that makes the perfect bedtime storybook for young children, teddies (and Giants!)."






The Christmas Story(Updated)
by Ian Beck
Paperback, 32 Pages, Published 2005 by Transworld Publishers
ISBN-13: 978-0-552-54937-0, ISBN: 0-552-54937-1

"High above the stables, the night sky was filled with angels who gave thanks to God and welcomed the new baby with their beautiful music. A perfect first book of the Nativity, simply told and beautifully illustrated by Ian Beck."






The Ugly Duckling
(Paperback)
by Mr Ian Beck
Paperback, 32 Pages, Published 2007 by Orchard Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-84616-580-1, ISBN: 1-84616-580-6

"Once upon a time there was a mother duck who had seven little ducklings. Six of them were soft and fluffy and yellow. The seventh duckling was different ...Simply told for very young children, this delightful retelling of Hans Christian Andersens' famous fairy tale has beautifully atmospheric illustrations and an irresistible ugly duckling."






Grey Island, Red Boat
by Ian Beck
Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2016 by Barrington Stoke Ltd
ISBN-13: 978-1-78112-521-2, ISBN: 1-78112-521-X

"Everything on the Island of Ashes is grey, from the weather to the castle, the grass and the flowers. But then the red boat arrives, and with it a young man who believes he is cursed - everything he touches turns to colour. Princess Opal and the people of the island are enchanted, but the King is suspicious and imprisons Wendell. Opal must find a way to escape to a life filled with love and colour. High quality cream paper and a special ..."






Rapunzel
(Collins Big Cat)
by Ian Beck, Alessandra Cimatoribus, Collins Big Cat, Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm
Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2013 by Collins Educational
ISBN-13: 978-0-00-746534-7, ISBN: 0-00-746534-3

"Locked away inside a cold, stone tower for many years, the beautiful Rapunzel is desperate to escape. But is there any way out? Created to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Grimm brother's first book, this fabulous retelling by Ian Beck breathes new life into this well-known tale. * Topaz/Band 13 books offer longer and more demanding reads for children to investigate and evaluate. * Text type: A retelling of a traditional tale * Cu ..."






Pastworld(1st Edition)
by Ian Beck
Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 2009 by Bloomsbury Usa Childrens
ISBN-13: 978-1-59990-040-7, ISBN: 1-59990-040-8

"What if all of London were really an amusement park―a whole city returned to Victorian times to entertain visitors from the twenty-first century? That's the wildly original premise of Ian Beck's Pastworld, a high-stakes mystery set in a simulated past.Eve is a lifelong resident of Pastworld who doesn't know she's living in a theme park until a mysterious threat forces her to leave home. Caleb is a visiting tourist who finds the lawless ..."






The Secret History of Tom Trueheart(1st Edition)
by Ian Beck
Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 2007 by Greenwillow
ISBN-13: 978-0-06-115210-8, ISBN: 0-06-115210-2

" Tom's six older brothers take after their father. Tom does not. The brothers are adventurers who go on dangerous quests in the Land of Stories. Tom stays home with his mother. Tom's brothers are famous for the exciting endings they discover for the tales the Story Bureau assigns to them. Tom worries he will never have a story of his own. But when his brothers fail to return from their adventures in time to celebrate Tom's twelfth ..."






Tom Trueheart(Updated)
Boy Adventurer
by Ian Beck, Melanie Bellah
Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2007 by Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-279237-2, ISBN: 0-19-279237-7

"Tom Trueheart wants to be an adventurer like his six older brothers. They're all employed by the Story Bureau to take the lead in any number of thrilling tales - tales which mean they have to rescue red-hooded young ladies or climb outlandishly large beanstalks. Each story is started off by the Story Bureau and it's up to the adventurer to make of the story what he will. But this time something's gone wrong - none of the stories are b ..."






Home Before Dark(Updated)
(Hippo Puzzles)
by Ian Beck
Paperback, 32 Pages, Published 1999 by Scholastic Hippo
Import
ISBN-13: 978-0-590-19918-6, ISBN: 0-590-19918-8






The Oxford Nursery Book(1st Edition)
by Ian Beck
Hardcover, 96 Pages, Published 1995 by Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-278129-1, ISBN: 0-19-278129-4

"A classic anthology for the nursery, which draws upon the rich tradition of nursery rhymes, riddles, songs and lullabies. Poems by William Blake, Christina Rossetti and Robert Louis Stevenson complete this illustrated collection."






A Christmas Squirrel
by Mike Doodson, Ian Beck
Paperback, 24 Pages, Published 2017 by Independently Published
ISBN-13: 978-1-973482-32-1, ISBN: 1-973482-32-0

""A Christmas Squirrel was an easy to grasp re-telling of the classic with a lot of warmth, making it the perfect story for family reading this Christmas as the story was very joyful with a strong moral message."






Winston the Book Wolf(1st Edition)
by Beck Marni Mcgee, Ian Beck
Hardcover, 32 Pages, Published 2006 by Walker Childrens
ISBN-13: 978-0-8027-9569-4, ISBN: 0-8027-9569-2

"Devour a good book!In this clever take-off on Little Red Riding Hood, the big bad wolf is the very hungry Winston who likes to eat books! When the librarian scolds him for this naughty behavior, Rosie (who wears a familiar red hoodie), rescues him and takes him out into the woods to teach him how to read books, not eat books. Winston grows to love reading and is soon devouring books with his eyes, and reading them (disguised as Granny W ..."






The Carmody Casebooks
by Ian Beck
Paperback, 496 Pages, Published 2017 by Corgi Childrens
ISBN-13: 978-0-552-56819-7, ISBN: 0-552-56819-8

"'A cracker . . . Utterly convincing' Philip PullmanOn a bitterly cold winter's night in 1900, a young boy disappears without trace from the forest near his village. The man he was with claims he was snatched by angels.Forty years later, Corporal Jack Carmody is sent to investigate reports of mysterious lights above the village. The locals suspect German bombers overhead, but Carmody knows there's something far more intriguing going on. ..."






The Disappearance of Tom Pile
The Casebooks of Captain Holloway
by Ian Beck
Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2015 by Corgi
International Edition
ISBN-13: 978-0-552-56776-3, ISBN: 0-552-56776-0

"The first gripping story in a brilliant new series about a secret team investigating the strange, the mysterious and the unexplained.      On a bitterly cold winter's night in 1900, a young boy disappears without trace from the forest near his home in the quiet village of Litton Cheney. He is never found, but the man he was with claims he was snatched by angels.     Forty years later, Corporal Jack Carmody is sent to investigate strange ..."






PETER AND THE WOLF(1st Edition)
by Ian Beck, Ian: Prokofiev Beck, S.S. Prokof'ev
Hardcover, 32 Pages, Published 1994 by Picture Corgi
Import
ISBN-13: 978-0-385-40343-6, ISBN: 0-385-40343-7

"Peter And The Wolf"






The Haunting of Charity Delafield
by Ian Beck
Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2012 by Corgi Childrens
ISBN-13: 978-0-552-56206-5, ISBN: 0-552-56206-8

"Flame-haired Charity Delafield has grown up in a vast, isolated house - most of which she is forbidden to explore - by her strict, cold father. With only her kindly nurse, Rose, and her cat Mr Tompkins for company, she knows very little of the outside world - or of her own family's shadowy past. What she does know is that she is never to go outside unsupervised. And she is never to over-excite herself, because of the mysterious 'conditi ..."






The Hidden Kingdom
(Paperback)
by Ian Beck
Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2011 by Oup Oxford
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-275563-6, ISBN: 0-19-275563-3

"A pampered prince who has to give up everything he has ever known. A warrior-like girl who has promised to carry out her duty at any cost. An obedient young servant with a mission to complete and an icy chill in his heart. As ancient demons rise around them and conspire to destroy their world, only these three people can defeat the evil which threatens to engulf them. But to do so they must first find a way to survive in the bitter, sno ..."






Samurai
(Paperback)
by Ian Beck, Daniel Atanasov
Paperback, 64 Pages, Published 2010 by Barrington Stoke Ltd
ISBN-13: 978-1-84299-822-9, ISBN: 1-84299-822-6

"A masterless samurai and his faithful dog take on terrifying demons to save a beautiful girl. Atmospheric and thrilling myth from Japan. Barrington Stoke specialise in books for reluctant, struggling and dyslexic readers"






Pastworld
by Ian Beck
Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2010 by Bloomsbury Usa Childrens
ISBN-13: 978-1-59990-529-7, ISBN: 1-59990-529-9

"What if Victorian London were an amusement park where the inhabitants were actors hired to entertain visitors from the twenty-first century? Now imagine if Jack the Ripper was a planned attraction gone horribly wrong. Life inside the park, Pastworld, is all Eve has ever known. But then she meets a tourist in terrible trouble. Their adventure through this dark and dangerous theme park is sure to grab teens in paperback."



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