A wonderfully reassuring bedtime book about staying away from home for the very first time by two major children's-book talents.
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.
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Philippa Pearce was born in 1920 and spent her childhood in Great Shelford, south of Cambridge, where her father was a flour-miller. The village and the river that ran by the mill played a large part in shaping her stories, especially Minnow on the Say and Tom's Midnight Garden. For most of her adult life she lived within a few yards of her childhood home.
Helen Craig has been illustrating children's books for thirty years, and has countless titles to her name, including Charlie and Tyler at the Seaside; The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse (shortlisted for the Smarties Book Prize); four This Is the Bear books and Mary Mary, all written by Sarah Hayes; four Bonnie Bumble books, all written by Phyllis Root; Ros
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