Willa and Old Miss Annie (Racers) (Racers S.)

by Berlie Doherty (Author), KimLewis (Illustrator), KimLewis (Illustrator), Berlie Doherty (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1994

  $7.07

  This is the story of a little girl called Willa, who moves with her family to a new home, where she meets Old Miss Annie. At first Willa is afraid of the old woman because of her woolly hair, tiny voice and bumpy, twisted hands. Soon they become the best of friends. One of the things that they have in common is a great love of animals. The book contains three stories, featuring respectively a goat, a pony and a fox. Berlie Doherty has twice won the Carnegie Medal, for Granny Was a Buffer Girl and Dear Nobody . She has also written Spellhorn and White Peak Farm . Kim Lewis was shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal for The Shepherd Boy . Her other picture books are Emma's Lamb , Floss , First Snow and The Last Train .

• Used

  Paperback
  1995

  $14.64

  A collection of three stories about a little girl called Willa, who moves with her family to a new home, where she meets Old Miss Annie. At first Annie is afraid of the old woman because of her woolly hair and tiny voice and bumpy, twisted hands, but soon they become the best of friends. One of the things that they have in common is a great love of animals, which is at the heart of these three country tales, featuring respectively a goat, a pony and a fox.;Berlie Doherty has won the Carnegie Medal twice, for Granny Was a Buffer Girl and Dear Nobody . Her books for young people also include Spellhorn and White Peak Farm .;Kim Lewis was shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal for her first picture book, The Shepherd Boy . She has since written and illustrated four more rural tales, Emma's Lamb , Floss , First Snow , The Last Train and My Friend Harry .