When Grandma Came by Jill Paton Walsh

When Grandma Came by Jill Paton Walsh

When Grandma came to visit Madeleine she told her although she'd seen a great whale, she'd never seen anything as tremendous as her; she'd seen a kangaroo bounding, but nothing as bouncy as Madeleine. This story reveals the heart-felt delight of a grandmother for her granddaughter.

Jill Paton Walsh (1937-2020) was an award-winning author of many books for children, young adults, and adults including The Green Book, A Parcel of Patterns, the Booker Prize shortlisted Knowledge of Angels, and the Whitbread Prize winner The Emperor's Winding Sheet. She completed Dorothy L. Sayers' unfinished Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane mystery manuscript, the international bestseller Thrones, Dominations, and continued Sayers' series with A Presumption of Death, The Attenbury Emeralds, and The Late Scholar. In 1996, Walsh was awarded a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) for services to literature.

Dorothy L. Sayers (1983-1957), the greatest of the golden age detective novelists, was one of the first women to be awarded a degree by Oxford University. Her aristocratic detective, Lord Peter Wimsey, became one of the most popular fictional heroes of the twentieth century, but she considered her translation of Dante's Divine Comedy to be her best work.

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ISBN 13	9780670835812
ISBN 10	0670835811
Title	When Grandma Came
Author	Jill Paton Walsh
Series	Viking Kestrel Picture Books
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Penguin Books Ltd
Year published	1992-06-25
Number of pages	32
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