and passionately embraced by generations of readers

making all kinds of sounds

poets and army MPs crowd the pages of a book in which facts are fused with techniques of fiction to create the nerve-end reality of experiential truth

lyrical text and charming illustrations will gently lull even the most reluctant sleeper

An ideal book for parents

The Present Gifts for Dad and passionately embraced by generationsThe carefully wrapped present was perched half hidden on his parents' closet shelf. Arthur, a little boy with a very large imagination, feverishly tried to guess what it might contain. A pet? A shiny trumpet? A new computer? The possibilities were almost endless. All for him and him alone until the doorbell interrupted his reverie. What happened next is a remarkable and soul satisfying reminder that the act of sharing is perhaps the greatest present