Penelope has written a number of Yellow Banana books for Egmont including Dragon Trouble and Debbie and the Little Devil. For her book, A Stitch in Time, she scooped the Whitbread award The Ghost of Thomas Kempe earned her the Carnegie Medal in 1973 and she has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize several times for her adult novels. Penelope Lively is an author with a shelf full of awards.

CILIP Carnegie & Greenaway Children's Book Awards.

About This Edition ISBN:Įgmont Books Ltd an imprint of Egmont UK Ltd Or he'll have no pocket money or pudding ever again.Ī great read is forever…the Egmont Heritage range represents the very best in children’s literature in beautifully bound editions that a child will cherish. Thomas Kempe the apothecary has returned and he wants James to be his apprentice. It's not him who smashes bottles and pours tea in the Vicar's lap. But it's not him who's writing strange things on shopping lists and fences.

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