Jenny Nimmo, Author . Scholastic/Orchard $9.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-439-47429-0
The first in the projected Children of the Red King series, this paper-over-board British fantasy reads like ersatz Harry Potter. Charlie Bone, a likable "ordinary" boy of about 10, lives with his loving widowed mom and her mother, a salt-of-
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Jenny Nimmo, Author , read by Simon Russell Beale. Listening Library $28 (, unabridged, five cassettes, 7 hrs., $28 ISBN ) ISBN 978-0-8072-1662-0
An air of suspense appropriately colors British actor Beale's deft reading of Nimmo's diverting fantasy—the first in a planned trilogy—about a boy possessed of unusual powers and the odd mysteries that swirl around him. Young...
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Jenny Nimmo, Author . Scholastic/Orchard $9.99 (146p) ISBN 978-0-439-84675-2
Nimmo (the Charlie Bone novels) launches the Magician Trilogy with this enchanting tale, first released in England in 1986. On his ninth birthday, Gwyn's delightfully eccentric grandmother gives him five gifts: a piece of seaweed, a tin whistle,
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Jenny Nimmo, Author Orchard $12.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-439-49687-2
The hero returns to Bloor's Academy in Charlie Bone and the Time Twister: Children of the Red King Book 2 by Jenny Nimmo. When Charlie's young ancestor Henry Yewbeam accidentally travels through time from 1916 to the present, he needs Charlie's...
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Jenny Nimmo, Author Dutton Books $13.95 (170p) ISBN 978-0-525-44438-1
Gwyn returns in this supple sequel to The Snow Spider , a fantasy that--like this one--was set in the Welsh countryside. But this time the apprentice magician's role is fairly minor. The tale concerns Nia, who is taunted by her family and classmates
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Jenny Nimmo, Author Orchard $12.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-439-54526-6
Readers return to Bloor's Academy in the paper-over-board Charlie Bone and the Invisible Boy by Jenny Nimmo. This third installment in the series finds Charlie and friends helping a boy who was turned invisible by a magic snake, as punishment for...
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Jenny Nimmo. Scholastic Press, $16.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-439-84673-8
Nimmo expands her popular Charlie Bone universe with this first book in the Chronicles of the Red King series about Charlie's ancestor, the Red King of Africa. His name is Timoken, and he is blessed and cursed at birth with jinni gifts—flight, the...
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Jenny Nimmo, Author, John Keating, Read by , read by John Keating. Scholastic Audio $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-439-89553-8
There is nothing like a hearty brogue to drop a listener into a faraway land, in this case Wales in olden times. Keating's wonderfully rich voice does just that. Though this first volume of a trilogy takes place in present-day Wales, the past is
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Jenny Nimmo, Author, Debbie Boon, Illustrator , illus. by Debbie Boon. Harcourt $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-216486-7
Little Hen is "too small and ordinary," according to the farm's other female fowls. Why, she doesn't even have a "special name" like Rhode Island Red or White Leghorn. Arthur the rooster is clearly fond of Little Hen, and Mrs.
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Jenny Nimmo, Author, Simon Russell Beale, Read by Listening Library $26 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8072-1898-3
Charlie Bone heads back to Bloor's Academy for another term filled with mystery, magic and fantastic adventure in Charlie Bone and the Time Twister by Jenny Nimmo, read by Simon Russell Beale. This time around, Charlie finds himself face-to-face...
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Kate Elizabeth Ernest, Author, Jenny Nimmo, Author Dutton Books $11.95 (136p) ISBN 978-0-525-44306-3
Nimmo (the Charlie Bone novels) launches the Magician Trilogy with this enchanting tale, first released in England in 1986. On his ninth birthday, Gwyn's delightfully eccentric grandmother gives him five gifts: a piece of seaweed, a tin whistle, a...
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Kate Elizabeth Ernest, Author, Jenny Nimmo, Author, Angela Barrett, Illustrator Dial Books $14.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-1509-7
In this energetic retelling of an old Celtic tale, three witches spread magic and terror in Glenmagraw village. The ghoulish night visitors make impossible demands of local craftsmen and, their requests refused, send two children into a deep sleep....
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