When Penelope goes to stay with her aunt and uncle in an ancient Derbyshire farmhouse, she is immediately drawn to the wonderful atmosphere and longs to discover all its secrets. Soon she finds herself slipping back in time to the sixteenth century….
When Penelope goes to stay with her aunt and uncle in an ancient Derbyshire farmhouse, she is immediately drawn to the wonderful atmosphere of the place and longs to discover all the secrets of its past. Soon, Penelope finds herself slipping back in time to the sixteenth century, where she is welcomed by the Babbington family whose home it was then.
As the lines between past and present blur, Penelope becomes caught up in the tragic events that befall her new friends, as they make plans to rescue the doomed monarch, Mary Queen of Scots.
This is Book 20 in the A Puffin Book Series. See all A Puffin Book books here.
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Alison Uttley, (1884 - 1976) born in Derbyshire, took much inspiration from her love of the countryside. She wrote over 100 books, her most famous being the Little Grey Rabbit series, A Country Child and A Traveller in Time. Margaret Tempest (1892 - 1982) illustrated at least thirty-one Little Grey Rabbit books. She then wrote and illustrated 20 books of her
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