The Apprentices by Leon Garfield
Life for 18th-century London apprentices was often hard, but their hopes and dreams are the stuff of these stories. From chilly October, through Christmas, Valentine's Day, May Day and midsummer, a story for each month is included in this book.-
A Necklace of Raindrops
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Stories for Christmas
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The Painted Garden
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Pongwiffy
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Appointment with F.E.A.R.
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Little House in the Big Woods
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Farmer Boy
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A Traveller in Time
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The First Four Years
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A Book of Milliganimals
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The Giant Under the Snow
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Grimble
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The Country Child
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Carbonel and Calidor
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The Twits
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The Ghostly Term at Trebizon
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Green Smoke
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The Worst Witch
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The Story of Holly and Ivy
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The Long Winter
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Fifth Year Friendships at Trebizon
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
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The High Deeds of Finn MacCool
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The Ordinary Princess
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Racso and the Rats of NIMH
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The Land of Green Ginger
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Pongwiffy and the Goblins' Revenge
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You Can Do the Cube
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Fattypuffs and Thinifers
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RT, Margaret and the Rats of NIMH
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Children on the Oregon Trail
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Ten in a Bed
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The Magician's Nephew
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Catweazle
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The Growing Summer
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V&A Introduces: Queen Victoria
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Danny, the Champion of the World
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A Proper Place
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Swallows and Amazons
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These Happy Golden Years
Leon Garfield (1921-1996) was born and raised in the seaside town of Brighton, England. his father owned a series of businesses, and the family's fortunes fluctuated wildly. Garfield enrolled in art school, left to work in an office, and in 1940 was drafted into the army, serving in the medical corps. After the war, he returned to London and worked as a biochemical technician. in 1948 he married Vivian Alcock, an artist who would later become a successful writer of children's books, and it was she who encouraged him to write his first novel, Jack Holborn, which was published in 1964. in all, Garfield would write some fifty books, including a continuation of Charles Dickens's Mystery of Edwin Drood and retellings of biblical and Shakespearian stories. Among his best-known books are Devil-in-the-Fog (1966, winner of The Guardian Children's Fiction Prize), The God Beneath the Sea (1970, winner of the Carnegie medal), Bostock and Harris; or, The Night of the Comet (1979; forthcoming from The New York Review Children's Collection), and John Diamond (1980, winner of the Whitbread Award).
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780140315950 |
| ISBN 10 | 0140315950 |
| Title | The Apprentices |
| Author | Leon Garfield |
| Series | Puffin Books |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Puffin |
| Year published | 1984-08-30 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |