Последние издания книг Филиппы Пирс

Напрасно взрослые думают, что дети спят по ночам. Ночь — время чудес и приключений, и главный герой волшебной повести классика английской детской литературы Филиппы Пирс прекрасно это чувствует.

Что может быть увлекательнее, чем услышать в темноте тринадцатый удар старинных часов, бесшумно подкрасться к двери, распахнуть ее и обнаружить на месте скучного асфальтированного дворика таинственный сад?

Быстрей, быстрей, шептал дом, а старинные часы позади тревожно тикали. Том вышел через черный ход. Сперва он просто удивился, потом возмутился. Они сказали: "Там ничего интересного для тебя нет, Том. Там только задний двор со всяким мусором".

Ничего... Только огромная лужайка и клумбы, высоченная ель и толстенные раскидистые тисы. От лужайки в глубь сада разбегаются дорожки в какой-то совсем другой мир. Том еле перевел дух от изумления. Они пытались его сюда не пустить, но это им больше не удастся. Он залезет в каждый уголок и под каждую тисовую ветку... Сад призывно и таинственно раскинулся перед ним в лунном свете.

A mysterious stranger called Mr Finder offers to help Till find his dog, and they interview various witnesses including a heron, a mole, a riddling cat – and Miss Mousey, whose sketch of a peaceful riverbank offers a vital clue. The quest to find Bess is full of magic but Till begins to mistrust his supposed ally Mr Finder – until at last he realizes the truth, and they track down the real culprit, a finder who likes to keep what he finds. At the end of this enchanting story Till is reunited with his beloved Bess and a new book – of the story – will be born.

Amy is going to stay with her granny on her own and she packs her three best things to take with her. On the first night she misses her family and one of her three best things – a little mat – turns into a magic carpet and flies her home to see they're all right. The second night her little horse gallops her back. But the third night, when she sails home in a magic boat, the family aren't there. Amy cries all the way back to Granny's where she finds her mum, brother and dog waiting for her. They have come early so they can all go to a funfair the next day. A wonderfully reassuring, magical tale, written by Philippa Pearce and beautifully imagined by Helen Craig.

When the grandfather clock downstairs mysteriously strikes thirteen, it seems to be connected with a magical garden. Tom – who is lonely and unhappy – has been told the garden is no longer there, but he discovers it, enters it, and makes friends with Hattie. While he wants to stay in the garden for ever, Hattie yearns to grow up and escape. Tom works out that the garden somehow belongs to the past, and that Hattie probably died long ago. He struggles to outwit the passing of time but he fails, and everything seems to have ended in disaster. However, there is a brilliant and unexpected ending in which Hattie’s past and Tom’s present are…

Lying awake at night, Tom hears the old grandfather clock downstairs strike ...eleven ...twelve ...thirteen ...Thirteen! When Tom gets up to investigate, he discovers a magical garden. A garden that everyone told him doesn't exist. A garden that only he can enter ...A Carnegie-Medal-winning modern classic that's magically timeless.

Ben Blewitt is desperate for a dog. He's picked out the biggest and best dogs from the books in the library - and he just knows he's going to get one for his birthday. Ben is excited when the big day arrives, but he receives a picture of a dog instead of a real one! But the imagination can be a powerful thing, and when Ben puts his to work, his adventures really begin.

«Том и полночный сад» — самая известная и популярная книга Пирс, написанная в 1958 году, на протяжении нескольких десятков лет была бестселлером, стала классикой сказок о времени.

Захватывающие приключения Тома Лонга, маленького мальчика, который из дома своего дяди каждую ночь попадает в прошлое, в сад викторианской эпохи. Исчезающий волшебный сад населен призраками. А, может быть, сам Том — призрак? Прошлое и настоящее перепутались и, наверное, виноваты в этом таинственные часы. Эту книгу будут читать с одинаковым увлечением не только дети, но и взрослые. Ведь она — об отношениях со Временем, о ностальгии, о тоске по идиллии детства, даже если само детство не было идиллическим.

When his brother catches measles, Tom is sent away for the summer to stay with his uncle and aunt and is thoroughly fed up about it. What a boring summer it's going to be. But then, lying in bed one night, he hears the old grandfather clock in the hall strike the very strange hour of 13 o'clock. What can it mean? As Tom creeps downstairs and opens the door, he finds out...a magical garden, a new playmate, and the adventure of a lifetime.

Sid, Peggy and Amy adore the two gerbils, Bubble and Squeak, but their mother detests them. A major family battle results, and it's clear life is never going to be quite the same again. But after a near fatal encounter between Bubble and Ginger the cat, Mrs Sparrow begins to see that life with 2 gerbils might not be so bad after all.

When Tom is sent to his aunt's house for the summer he resigns himself to weeks of boredom. Lying awake one night he listens to the grandfather clock in the hall strike every hour. Eleven . . . Twelve . . . Thirteen. Thirteen! Tom rushes down the stairs and opens the back door. There, awaiting him, is a beautiful garden. A garden that shouldn't exist. And there are children in the garden too - are they ghosts? Or is it Tom who is really the ghost . . .

Tom is furious. His brother, Peter, has measles, so now Tom is being shipped off to stay with Aunt Gwen and Uncle Alan in their boring old apartment. There'll be nothing to do there and no one to play with. Tom just counts the days till he can return home to Peter.Then one night the landlady's antique grandfather clock strikes thirteen times leading Tom to a wonderful, magical discovery and marking the beginning of a secret that's almost too amazing to be true. But it is true, and in the new world that Tom discovers is a special friend named Hatty and more than a summer's worth of adventure for both of them. Now Tom wishes he could stay with his relatives and Hatty — forever...

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Sid has been given a pair of gerbils, Bubble and Squeak, but his mother doesn't want them in the house! The battle to keep them is on.