| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
ix, 166 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Contents: Foreword (p.vii) -- Acknowledgements (p.vi) -- The lucky hole (p.1) -- Eskimos in the sand tray (p.6) -- Harvest festival (p.10) -- School dinner for forty (p.15) -- Michaelmas fair (p.20) -- Damage by conkers (p.24) -- Conkers and gingernuts (p.28) - Gunpowder, treason and plot (p.33) -- Snurling (p.36) -- Christmas cards for forty (p.41) -- The craftsman (p.44) -- Carols for forty (p.45) -- Forty in the wings (p.51) -- Sleigh bells for the village school (p.55) -- Snow on their books (p.61) -- Odour of sanctity (p.66) -- Winter gloom (p.71) -- Unstable element (p.76) -- Black magic (p.80) -- Stiff test for forty (p.85) -- The visitor (p.89) -- Conflicting evidence (p.92) -- Rain on my desk (p.95) -- Thirty-one and a donkey (p.99). |
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Contents (cont.): Economy for forty (p.104) -- The real thing (p.107) -- Nature walk for forty (p.111) -- Wild surmise (p.116) -- Goldfish and frogspawn (p.120) -- Eight-a-side cricket (p.124) -- Night and day (p.128) -- The runaway (p.132) -- Borrow a pound (p.136) -- The flag (p.139) -- Lost property (p.143) -- PT for forty (p.147) -- Clerical error (p.151) -- Afterglow (p.155) -- Soft and hard boiled (p.159) -- Last day of term (p.163). |
| Subject |
Thrush Green (Imaginary place) -- Fiction.
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Country life -- England -- Fiction.
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Villages -- England -- Fiction.
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Schools -- England -- Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Dicker, Kate, illustrator.
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| ISBN |
0395717620 |
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9780395717622 |
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