Philippa Pearce

Kate Tranter is fatherless - or is she? The evidence of the tombstone she finds in the churchyard seems conclusive. And yet....

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....

The rope hung from top to bottom of his dream....

For months, Ben Blewitt has been thinking about dogs. So he is very disappointed when, for his birthday, he receives not a dog, but a picture of a dog....

Each of these eleven stories lures the unsuspecting reader into the ghostly world of the supernatural. Who has not been afraid of something....

A growling lion spends the morning at school and frightens the school bully; a little boy saves a mouse’s life; Totty spends the night with a ‘man-eating manatee’….

When Bet is first asked to go into the meadow to read aloud - apparently to no one - she wonders why....

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....