Shirley Hughes

Liverpool, 1940: Thirteen-year-old Joan's home is under constant threat from the Nazis' terrifying nightly air raids. Everyone is on edge, faced with strict food rationing, curfews, and blackouts. It's not an easy time to be a teenager. Joan's one solace is going to the movies with her best friend, the unflappable Doreen, but when the bombings intensify, even that becomes too dangerous. There's also the matter of a strange man who Joan sees lurking...

"It starts out as a regular trip to the store with Mom, but then Lily does a dreadful thing: she flings her beloved stuffed toy, Bobbo, high in the air, only to have him land on top of a school bus just as it's pulling away! Lily is inconsolable. What if she never sees Bobbo again? Little does she know (though the reader can see) that Bobbo is having an exciting adventure at school--and will be well cared for until he finds his way back to Lily."--Publisher's...

A burst pipe causes chaos over the upstairs landing while Alfie's parents are out, but Alfie, his baby-sitter, and her parents finally find a solution.

Sam and Barney build a snow lady that resembles their elderly neighbor, mean Mrs. Dean.

Nursery school students Alfie and his friend Bernard wish they could play with Ian Barger and the other boys at the big school next door, but Ian and his friends are always too busy to take any notice of little kids, until something unexpected happens.

A little boy is upset by the loss of his favorite stuffed dog.

A youngster is upset by the loss of his favorite stuffed dog.

A collection of more than twenty poems about young Annie Rose and the daily activities of a child.

Alfie helps his little sister count things from one to ten.